Tabakasali

This delicacy goes by many names, sometimes shortened to Taba or Tabaka, sometimes with loose Common translations, such as honey cake, honey stacks, or honey pastry. The official name, Tabakasali, is derived from the Sylvan phrase: tabaka za unga wa asali, which literally means layers of honey dough. All of these names quite aptly describe just how this dessert is made. The cake is a stack of layers of fluffy dough, either prepared with honey instead of sugar, or later drenched from above with honey.

There are many variations to tabakasali. Recipes may add cream or chocolate between the layers to stick them together, or cover the sides with nuts and fruit to complement the honey, or add sugared decorations on top, to make it more personal. After all, tabakasali is traditionally only served after graduation from school, or when a person enters a new life stage (from infancy to adolescence, or from adolescence to maturity). In the earlier centuries after Fey Fall, honey had become a meaningful resource since bee hives had become much more abundant, but the bees, and other fey creatures, had also become much more possessive of it. Obtaining the honey was difficult (sometimes even part of the rite of passage), so spending it on the drenching of a cake was an extravagance reserved only for special occasions

Nowadays, tabakasali can be ordered in any other pastry shop whenever one fancies it. Because it has become much more common to eat, the variant that is presented for someone's graduation or coming-of-age has become more fanciful in modernday Concordian society. It has also become part of the traditional celebrations that is home-made, in the company of family or friends, instead of the factory-made and store-bought varieties. This adds to the theme of making a personal delicacy to celebrate a personal milestone.