Then came a cavalcade of splendid petits fours, macaroons, chocolates and fruit pastes.

These are French-style pates des fruits (fruit pastes), a kind of gummy candy for grownups.

Fragrant of cologne and the sweets he'd bought her: sugar-coated almonds, Swiss chocolate filled with fruit paste, honeyed figs.

Alfajores are shortbread cookies sandwiched together with chocolate and dulce de leche or a fruit paste.

One is a Moroccan fruit paste with crushed rose petals, "a traditional Arabic ingredient," she said.

Taking a second bite of the crushed fruit paste, Kenobi reconfirmed his opinion of the first bite.

The skin on his belly was stretched taut by the time he ruefully waved away something made of fruit paste, sweet tubers, and meat that smelled heavenly.

And fruit paste, and this meat pulped with lerta juice and sour tubers before baking.

The alfajores are shortbread cookies sandwiched together with dulce de leche or a fruit paste.

Alfajores: longbread cookies, sandwiched together with Dulce de Leche (caramelized milk) or a fruit paste.