Hafiz Mustafa 1864 Sweets
Hafiz Mustafa Sweets is one of the first companies established in the Ottoman era and is considered the fourth oldest Co. in Turkey founded only one year after the establishment of Ziraat State Bank.
The History of Hafiz Mustafa
The story of Hafiz Mustafa sweets started in the basement of shop no. 86 in Eminönü, Istanbul in 1864 by Hadji Ismail Hakki Zade, father of Hafiz Mustafa who came from Orta in the state of Shankari, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
Ismail Bey was in the exchange business, yet this did not prevent him from working in Sweets industry in his basement in Istanbul by the assistance of his son Hafiz Mustafa who was “muezzin” in Arbasilar mosque. He was fond of sweets business and a big fan thereof.
Mr. Hadji Ismail Hakki is one of the first producers of “Akide şekeri”; a sweet of a special importance in the days of the Ottoman Empire where mortar stone was being used in its manufacture. Hafiz Mustafa was very skillful in pastry. He crowned this craftsmanship by inventing “Poğaça” the most popular morning meal for Turks. He, again, proved his distinction internationally where he won 11 European medals in the field of pastry & sweets in 1926-1938.
Antiquity & Values of Hafiz Mustafa Sweets
One day after another, Hafiz Mustafa make use of the good reputation of Turkish sweets all over the world. He, therefore, expanded his business to include: Turkish coffee, tea, delights, chocolates, and many more products that were renowned in many countries.
Nowadays, Hafiz Mustafa sweet stores are considered one of the most popular destination for tourists wishing to visit and taste the famous Ottoman sweets in Turkey. Ongular family runs this famous brand. Baklava & luxurious Turkish delights tops the list of the finest and most demanded products. The company owns more than ten branches in Istanbul and Antalya in addition to one branch in Dubai.
Avni Ongular, the owner of this famous store series in one of his media interviews:
“All products are being produced manually by our specialists. Sugar cane is exclusively used in sweetening. Industrial colorants are never used, natural roots tincture, fruit extracts, and “Zamzam” water are being used instead.”
He proceeds,: “We don’t introduce industrial substances in our kitchen. We are keen of producing sweets that suit our traditional roots and people’s taste nowadays. “
He adds,: “We don’t include foreign products in our list. You can’t have French or Italian sweets in Hafiz Mustafa branches 1864. We’re keen to preserve our historical & cultural heritage and always seek provision of best services to and obtain satisfaction of our clients.”
Hafiz Mustafa's Branches
Hafiz Mustafa’s expanded in its sweets and products to many places covering several areas in and outside Turkey. The following are the most important of which:
- Bahçekapı
- Sirkeci
- Sultanahmet
- Taksim
- İstiklal
- Nuruosmaniye
- Üsküdar
- Pera
- Beyazıt
- Florya
- Kâğıthane
- Galataport
- Antalya
- Bodrum
- Dubai
Hafiz Mustafa Most Famous Products
Hafiz Mustafa has got various kinds of Turkish sweets. A visitor can have whatever he likes of them. The most important of which:
Luxury Turkish Baklava
Baklava is distinctive by Hafiz Mustafa. It is a group of layers of soft dough flakes, stuffed with nuts like walnuts, pistachios, almonds, and mixed with syrup or honey. Types of baklava produced by Hafiz Mustafa are:
Hafiz Mustafa Turkish Baklava
One of the most famous and widespread Turkish baklava world-wise. It’s considered one of the traditional types that takes the pride of place in the Ottoman Cuisine. Some of these types are:
- Turkish Baklava with walnuts
- Ankara Baklava with walnuts
- Sultan Baklava with walnuts
- Pistachios Baklava
Turkish Baklava with Pistachios
Pistachios baklava is one of the most famous type that it’s stuffed with “halabi” or “Antep” pistachios for Gaziantep. It is served in many types like:
- Classic Baklava with pistachios
- Princess Baklava with pistachios
- Folded Baklava with pistachios
- Lady Lips Baklava
- Green Fingers Baklava
- Saray Burmasi Baklava
- Chocolate Baklava
Hafiz Mustafa Turkish Delights
Turkish delights is a soft-kind of sweets, delicious of a chewy texture and consists of sugar, starch, citric acid or potassium, mostly, of a Turkish origin. It was moved and spread in all Middle East countries. Dara’a is one of the Syrian cities to which this sweet arrived and became famous for.
One of the sweets adorable by the young and old. It can be served with tea or coffee and eaten with two layers of plain biscuits. It may come with rose, mastic, or fruits flavors stuffed with nuts and pistachios.
Hafiz Mustafa Turkish Delights Types:
Tourists, especially those coming for Arab states, look – mostly- for Hafiz Mustafa Turkish delights. Tasting the same is their reason to come over. The most prominent of which are:
- Plain Turkish delights
- Pistachios Turkish delights
- Turkish delights with nuts
- Mixed Turkish delights
- Turkish delights wit kiwi
- Turkish delights with milk
- Chocolate Turkish delights
- Walnuts Turkish delights
- Turkish delights with orange
- Turkish delights with pomegranate
- Turkish delights with rose
- Roasted Turkish delights
- Mastic Turkish delights
- Cinnamon Turkish delights
- Mint Turkish delights
- Lemon Turkish delights
- Turkish delights with saffron
Hafiz Mustafa Knafeh
One of the traditional middle-eastern sweet made of a large group of very soft dough threads usually stuffed with layers of cheese or some other components like boiled cream, pistachios, or nuts. It’s well-known in Greece and Balkans, too.
Hafiz Mustafa Knafeh Types
- Knafeh with cheese and pistachios
- Chocolate Knafeh
Hafiz Mustafa Kadayif
Turkish Kadayif is a golden, crunchy and moist magnificent sweet stuffed with pistachios, walnuts, or honey and sometimes with some dried fruits, of a high popularity in the Mediterranean basin countries. Some of its types are:
- Pistachios kadayif
- Honey kadayif
- Pistachio Burma Kadayif
- The Ottoman Palace Kadayif with milk
- The Ottoman Palace kadayif with pomegranate
Hafiz Mustafa Sütlaç
“Mhallabiyah” or as it’s called in Turkey “Sütlaç” is a kind of candy made of milk, rice, sugar, starch, and semolina very famous in the middle east and north of Africa.
The most important kinds available at Hafiz Mustafa’s:
- Chocolate strawberry Sütlaç
- Forest fruits Sütlaç
- Figs Sütlaç
- Fruits Sütlaç
- Chocolate pistachios Sütlaç
- Milk & orange Sütlaç
- Milk with quince Sütlaç
- Milk & kiwi Sütlaç
- Milk & strawberry Sütlaç
- Mastic Sütlaç
- Baked Sütlaç
Hafiz Mustafa Trileçe
Trileçe or (Tres leches) is one of the most famous Turkish sweets with origins date back to Balkans. It is a crisp cake with milk, caramel, or berry sauce encompassing three types of milk; goat, cow, and buffalo.
Types of Trileçe cake available at Hafiz Mustafa branches:
- Caramel Trileçe
- ÂLÂ Trileçe
- Saffron Trileçe
- Trileçe with coffee
Hafiz Mustafa Chocolate
Chocolate is composed of roasted and grinded cocoa seed kernels available in a liquid or solid form. Hafiz Mustafa branches contain a wide range of luxurious chocolate varieties, plain or stuffed with nuts. Some of the available kinds are:
- Madlen Chocolate
- Chocolate with nuts
- Turkish delights & chocolate with nuts
Hafiz Mustafa Tea
In the twenties of the last century, an agricultural engineer from Muğla Province brought over the first tea seedlings from Russia. Later on, tea started to spread slowly until it became the Turks’ favorite drink.
In 2004 Turkey has become the number one country in the world in consuming tea in an average of 2.5 kg per capita, followed by England, 2.1 kg per capita. Turkish tea is grown on the eastern coasts of the Black Sea especially in Rizal province and it has a unique way of preparation.
In this way, tea is made using 2 teapots. Water is put in the big teapot while tea in the other. Tea is put in sufficient amount and water is poured over. The more water we put, the less heavier and more lighter the color will turn. Sugar is added in the final stage.
Turkish coffee and tea are considered one of the most important cultural symbols of Turkey and they are given a special interest inside each and every house or shop found there.
Hafiz Mustafa Tea Types
- Tea with apple
- Tea with pomegranate
- Black Turkish tea of different sizes
Hafiz Mustafa Coffee
The first appearance of Turkish coffee was in the days of the Ottoman State in the sixteenth century during the reign of Sultan Sleiman Al kanuni. It was the governor of Yemen who brought it over there. The royal court admired it and started preparing it skillfully and then created a new position in the palace, i.e. “Coffee maker” who is responsible for taking care of and supervising the “coffee of the Sultan”.
Turkish coffee is prepared using coffee beans grinded heavily without filtering. Arab coffee types are the finest. Although the origin of the word “coffee” is Arabic, yet cafes’ culture was only spread during the Ottoman reign where coffee was prepared and drunk within these cafés.
You can now order the finest types of Turkish coffee through: Sweet Saray Store.
- Hafiz Mustafa Coffee
- Hafiz Mustafa Turkish Coffee with mastic
Hafiz Mustafa Honey
Turkey is the number one country in beekeeping and exporting natural honey that contains immense benefits as regards to the general health of the human body. Turkey produces more than 100 thousand tons of honey a year and is the second largest producer thereof after China.
Hafiz Mustafa’s Most Famous Honey Types
- Chestnut honey
- Flowers honey
- Eidermin Heights honey
- Sidr honey
- Mountain’s honey
Hafiz Mustafa Near me?
If you are one of residents of countries in which there are no branches for Hafiz Mustafa and you long to taste his famous sweets and don’t have time or budget to visit Turkey, Hafiz Mustafa products are available online via Sweet Saray Store that is willing to deliver it your doorstep wherever you are.
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