İzmir Bomb Kurabiye facts for kids
| Type | Kurabiye |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Turkey |
| Region or state | İzmir |
| Main ingredients | praline, flour, baking soda, salt, butter, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, egg, vanilla extract |
The İzmir Bombası (say Iz-meer Bom-bah-suh), also known as the İzmir Bomb in English, is a super yummy cookie from Turkey. It's a type of cookie called a kurabiye (say koo-rah-bee-yeh). What makes it special? It's filled with a delicious, creamy chocolate spread!
This tasty treat gets its name from İzmir, a city in Turkey where it first became popular. Imagine a cookie with a crunchy outside and a soft, gooey chocolate center – that's the İzmir Bomb! People in Turkey love it so much that in 2020, it was the 6th most searched recipe on Google in the country.
How İzmir Bomb Became Popular
The İzmir Bomb cookie might have come from an older cookie called Murabbalı mecidiye. That cookie was also a kurabiye from the old Ottoman cuisine, but it was filled with apricot jam instead of chocolate.
The İzmir Bomb became super famous because of how much it was shared online. People saw it everywhere on social media, and everyone wanted to try it!
Different Kinds of İzmir Bomb
The most common İzmir Bomb has a light-colored dough filled with chocolate spread. But there are other kinds too! Some have dark brown dough filled with white chocolate spread.
You can also find İzmir Bombs with different fillings, like sweet raspberries. After the cookie became a big hit, some bakers in a place called Afyonkarahisar Province even started making versions filled with poppy seeds instead of chocolate.
Here are some popular types of these stuffed cookies:
- Cookies filled with Nutella chocolate spread.
- Chocolate chip cookies stuffed with Nutella.
- Red velvet cookies with a Nutella center.
- Oatmeal hazelnut chocolate chip cookies filled with Nutella.
- Dark chocolate cookies with chocolate chips and a Nutella filling.
Big Cookie Factories
In Turkey, some big companies make these cookies for everyone to buy. For example, Ülker makes a similar cookie called Biskrem. Eti makes one called Tutku, and Torku makes Delidolu. These are all popular cookies that remind people of the İzmir Bomb.
