Possible Clues:

• Rich Middle Eastern cake with nuts and honey
• Cook finally chopped fiery material in pastry
• Dessert -- sounds like champion grub!
• A honey of a dessert
• British poet laureate ___ Day-Lewis
• Middle Eastern dessert having thin layer of pastry filled with nuts and honey
• Middle Eastern dessert
• Dessert in paper-thin layers
• Flaky, syrupy pastry
• Rich cake having thin layers of pastry filled with nuts and honey