Italian excellence meets a thousand-year history interwoven with ancient ingredients and intense flavours with Oriental Tales, the new Mec3 line that celebrates the richness of Eastern traditions by transforming its timeless flavours into contemporary masterpieces of pastry and gelato. The protagonist of the entire range is the Dondurma gelato, born on the crowded streets of Turkey. With its elastic structure, it transforms gelato into an acrobatic spectacle. You can hop from the imperial courts to the gelato shop in just one beat thanks to Baklava Pistachio Cream, the variegate sauce with a crunchy texture and pistachio pralines, to be paired with the delicious Pasta Baklava flavour paste, with its aromatic notes of ghee butter. Walnuts are the star of Walnut Baklava Cream, the crunchy variegate sauce with walnut pralines, perfect for creating the Walnut Baklava gelato. The story continues through the alleys of the souks, where the scent of toasted sesame leads to Barazek, the thin, crispy biscuit that Mec3 celebrates with Barazek Cream, a multi-use variegate sauce enriched with delicious sesame biscuit pieces and that is completely gluten-free. A secret ingredient of many Middle Eastern delicacies, Ashta becomes a complete base for creating a gelato that goes perfectly with hints of rose, orange blossoms, saffron, honey and other mesmerizing recipes. New timeless masterpieces MEC3 Page after page, we enter the famous Turkish cafes where, thanks to the Coffee & Cardamom Base, one of the oldest drinks in the world is transformed into a gelato that perfectly captures the spicy aroma of this coffee, for exotic proposals with an enveloping taste. It is said that in the ancient markets, orange blossom lemonade welcomed visitors, refreshing body and soul on the hottest of days. This poetic tradition lives on in the Yellow Lemonade Base, which encompasses the bright flavour of lemon and the refined aroma of orange blossoms for a gelato that will conquer at first taste. Black tea, milk, cardamom and sugar are mixed in Karak Tea Base to create an enveloping gelato rich in flavour, a spicy embrace that amazes every time it is used to make a creation. The journey to rediscover these ingredients ends in the warm Spanish vineyards, where the ancient Malaga grape weaves a story that inspires the M.O. Malaga flavour paste, ideal for a cream-based gelato with aromatic notes of Malaga wine and raisins in an alcohol-free version, for a taste of tradition and sweet nostalgia. As an appendix to this story, but certainly not the least delicious, are the aromatic Mastic Flavour Paste, the refined Rose Flavour Paste with hints of the most celebrated flower, and the elegant Saffron Flavoured Cream, with a crisp texture and a distinctive bright yellow colour. 148
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