Bakeries and Desserts Prices in the UAE
A bakery counter in the UAE sells the same croissant at four dirhams and at seventeen, and both prices are real — the gap is the shop, not the pastry. On menus checked for this page, a plain croissant costs AED 3.50 to AED 17 in bakeries and cafes, a cheese croissant AED 4 to AED 19, a single donut AED 7 at Krispy Kreme and AED 9 at Dunkin’, and a muffin AED 13 to AED 17 at the coffee chains. A slice of cheesecake costs AED 23 to AED 28 at a bakery counter and AED 40 to AED 45 at Magnolia Bakery, while a whole one-kilo celebration cake splits the market in two: AED 48.50 to AED 66 at LuLu’s in-store bakery against AED 139 to AED 159 at Mister Baker. Arabic sweets follow the nut, not the syrup — a plate of kunafa is AED 22 to AED 25, a kilo of cheese kunafa AED 80, and baklava runs from AED 105 a kilo with cashew filling to AED 262.50 a kilo with pistachio. The everyday end of the counter is the cheapest food on this site: a pack of Arabic bread costs as little as AED 0.99, a sliced white loaf AED 2.40 to AED 5.10, and a small zaatar manakish AED 5.10. Every figure below was checked on live menus and supermarket listings on 10 November 2026, with the seller named beside each price, because on bakery items the seller is most of the price.
Last updated: 10 November 2026. Prices are list prices from Talabat and Deliveroo menus and from Carrefour, LuLu, Spinneys and Noon Minutes listings checked on that date; where a menu showed a lower promotional figure beside the list price, the list price is the one quoted. Bakery prices move with promotions and branch listings, so treat the menu in front of you as the final word on the day.
How much do croissants and everyday pastries cost?
| Item | Price (AED) | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plain croissant, cheapest bakery | 3.50 | Rich Pan Bakery | Rich Pan menu, Talabat |
| Plain croissant, local bakeries | 6.00–6.50 | OPS Bakery; Yamazaki Bakery | OPS and Yamazaki menus, Talabat |
| Plain croissant, cafe chain | 9.75 | ADNOC Oasis Café | ADNOC Oasis Café menu, Talabat |
| Plain croissant, premium | 16–17 | PAUL (16); Cupital Cafe (17) | PAUL menu, Deliveroo (opened page); Cupital menu, Talabat |
| Cheese croissant | 4–19 | Rich Pan (4) up to PAUL and Cupital (19) | Rich Pan, OPS, Yamazaki, ADNOC, Bake Lab, PAUL and Cupital menus, Talabat and Deliveroo |
| Butter croissant, supermarket own bakery | 3.99 single; 13.79 for a 5-piece pack | Carrefour own bakery | Carrefour UAE croissants and pastries listing |
| Butter croissant 61g, supermarket | 6.00–6.25 | Spinneys | Spinneys listings, Deliveroo (price varies by branch listing) |
The croissant ladder has four clear rungs. Local bakeries sell a plain croissant for AED 3.50 to AED 6.50 — Rich Pan at the bottom, OPS Bakery at AED 6 and Yamazaki at AED 6.50 — and a cheese croissant for AED 4 to AED 9.50 on the same menus. Cafe chains sit a rung up: ADNOC Oasis Café charges AED 9.75 for plain and cheese alike, and The Bake Lab AED 14. The premium rung is PAUL at AED 16 for a plain croissant and AED 19 for cheese on its opened Deliveroo menu, matched by Cupital Cafe at AED 17 and AED 19 on Talabat. A third-party menu guide prices PAUL’s croissant at AED 12; the opened menu says AED 16, and the menu figure is the one used here. Mister Baker sells croissants only as packs of two at AED 19 — there is no single Mister Baker croissant price to quote, and the pack is never divided into a single here.
The supermarket rung sits underneath the bakeries rather than inside the ladder: Carrefour’s own bakery sells a butter croissant at AED 3.99 singly and AED 13.79 in a five-piece pack — under AED 2.76 a piece in the pack — with a cheese five-pack at AED 14.39, while Spinneys prices its 61g butter croissant at AED 6 to AED 6.25 depending on the branch listing. For a household buying pastries weekly, the pack maths is the story: five Carrefour croissants cost less than one PAUL croissant and cheese croissant bought together.
What do donuts, muffins, brownies and cookies cost?
| Item | Price (AED) | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donut, single | 7 (Original Glazed); 9 (sugared or glazed) | Krispy Kreme; Dunkin’ | Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ menus, Talabat |
| Donuts, box of 3 | 22 | Dunkin’ | Dunkin’ menus, Talabat |
| Donuts, half dozen | 34–39 (Original Glazed); 39 (choose your own); 37 (glazed/sugared box) | Krispy Kreme; Dunkin’ | Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ menus, Talabat |
| Donuts, dozen | 84 (Original Glazed); 96 (Assorted) | Krispy Kreme | Krispy Kreme menus, Talabat (list prices; lower figures beside them are promotions) |
| Muffin, coffee chains | 13–17 | Tim Hortons (13); Starbucks (17) | Tim Hortons and Starbucks menus, Talabat |
| Muffin, supermarket-delivered | 2.49 (single piece) | Carrefour via Deliveroo | Carrefour Hypermarkets listing, Deliveroo |
| Brownie | 12 (classic) – 20 (flavoured); 15 (Magnolia double chocolate fudge) | Brownie Point; Magnolia Bakery | Brownie Point and Magnolia menus, Talabat (Magnolia confirmed on Deliveroo) |
| Cookie, single | 10–16 | Starbucks shortbread (10); Tim Hortons (13); Costa (16) | Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Costa menus, Talabat |
Donuts are a two-chain market on the menus checked. Krispy Kreme’s Original Glazed single is AED 7 on every listing retrieved, and Dunkin’s sugared or glazed single is AED 9 list — several listings show AED 6.30 beside it, which is a promotion and is not quoted as the price. Boxes are where the per-donut price falls: Dunkin’s box of three is AED 22 and its half dozen AED 39 (Dunkin’s own social reply in one retrieved post says AED 35 for six; every menu checked says AED 39, and the menu figure is used). Krispy Kreme’s half dozen Original Glazed appears at AED 34 on some listings and AED 39 on others — both are quoted in the table because the platform itself splits — and the dozen lists at AED 84 for Original Glazed and AED 96 for Assorted, AED 7 to AED 8 a donut against AED 7 for the single glazed. Muffins at the chains are tightly priced: AED 13 across flavours at Tim Hortons, AED 15 at Datu Bakery and AED 17 at Starbucks, while a Carrefour muffin on a Deliveroo grocery listing is AED 2.49 — a supermarket line, kept apart from the cafe layer rather than averaged into it. Brownies run AED 12 for Brownie Point’s classic to AED 20 for its flavoured range, with Magnolia’s double chocolate fudge brownie at AED 15 on both platforms; cookies run AED 10 to AED 16 a piece at the coffee chains, with Spinneys selling six-packs at AED 15.25.
What does a cake cost — by the slice and whole?
| Item | Price (AED) | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheesecake slice, bakery counter | 23 (five flavours at one price) | Brownie Point | Brownie Point menu, Talabat |
| Cheesecake slice, premium | 28 strawberry; 36 Basque | PAUL | PAUL listings, Talabat and Deliveroo |
| Cheesecake portion, premium bakery | 40–45 | Magnolia Bakery | Magnolia menus, Talabat and Deliveroo agree |
| Cake slice, supermarket bakery | 7.90 (150g slice) | Bake Art LuLu | LuLu UAE bakery listing |
| Whole cake, 1 kg, supermarket bakery | 48.50–66 | LuLu Bakery / Bake Art LuLu | LuLu UAE listings (honey, chocolate, fruit, opera, truffle and fudge cakes) |
| Whole cake, 1 kg, bakery chain | 139–159 | Mister Baker | Mister Baker menus, Deliveroo |
| Whole cake, 18 cm / 28 cm, premium | 139–146 / 184 | PAUL | PAUL menu, Deliveroo (opened page) |
| Whole cake, premium bakery | 199–219 (red velvet baked cheesecake at 219 has a stated minimum weight of 1.8 kg) | Bloomsbury’s | Bloomsbury’s menus, Talabat; the same cheesecake is 199 on Deliveroo |
| Whole cheesecake, 1 kg | 180–190 | Brownie Point | Brownie Point menu, Talabat |
The slice layer and the whole-cake layer answer different questions. A slice is a coffee-and-cake decision: AED 23 at Brownie Point, whose cheesecake slices sit at one flat price across five flavours, AED 28 to AED 36 at PAUL and AED 40 to AED 45 for Magnolia’s cheesecake portions — against AED 7.90 for a 150g Bake Art slice at LuLu, the supermarket layer doing to cake slices what it does to croissants. A whole cake is a household-event decision, and here the format split is the widest on this page. LuLu’s in-store bakery sells named one-kilo cakes — honey, chocolate, fresh fruit, opera, truffle, fudge — at AED 48.50 to AED 66, with a 500g chocolate cake at AED 28.50. Mister Baker sells its one-kilo cakes at AED 139 to AED 159 across every listing checked, in every emirate it serves, and notes on one menu that a kilo serves eight to ten people. PAUL sizes by centimetres rather than kilos — AED 139 to AED 146 for 18 cm cakes and AED 184 for most 28 cm cakes on the opened menu — and Bloomsbury’s lists whole cakes at AED 199 to AED 219. No bakery checked publishes a standalone per-kilo cake rate, so none is calculated here: every whole-cake figure is a named cake with its stated weight or size.
For a birthday on a budget the arithmetic is direct: a one-kilo LuLu cake at around AED 50 to AED 66 feeds the same eight to ten people as a Mister Baker kilo at AED 139 to AED 159. The difference — roughly AED 85 to AED 100 — buys the bakery chain’s flavours, finish and customisation, and households who order cakes several times a year feel that gap far more than the croissant gap.
What do kunafa and baklava cost?
| Item | Price (AED) | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kunafa, single portion | 22–25 | Firas Plus (22); Nablus Eats (25) | Firas Plus menu, Deliveroo; Nablus Eats menus, Talabat and Deliveroo agree |
| Kunafa slice | 23–25 | Al Halabi Sweets | Al Halabi menu, Talabat |
| Kunafa plate (no weight stated) | 40 | Al Halabi Sweets | Al Halabi menu, Talabat |
| Cheese kunafa, 1 kg | 80 | Al Halabi Sweets | Al Halabi menu, Talabat |
| Cream kunafa, 1 kg | 75 | Al Halabi Sweets | Al Halabi menu, Talabat |
| Kunafa, uncooked tray, 1 kg | 95–116 | Feras Sweets | Feras menus, Talabat (price splits by listing) |
| Kunafa round trays | 195 | Al Halabi Sweets | Al Halabi menu, Talabat (no weight stated) |
| Baklava, cashew, per kg | 105–115.50 | Al Baba Sweets | Al Baba menu, Talabat |
| Baklava, pistachio and cashew mix, per kg | 157.50 | Al Baba Sweets | Al Baba menu, Talabat |
| Baklava, pistachio, per kg | 210–262.50 | Al Baba Sweets | Al Baba menu, Talabat |
| Baklava mixed box, 1 kg | 213–227 | Al Sultan Sweets | Al Sultan menus, Talabat (price splits by listing) |
Kunafa is sold three ways and the three ways are not interchangeable. By the portion, a plate or slice costs AED 22 at Firas Plus, AED 25 at Nablus Eats — the same AED 25 on both Talabat and Deliveroo — and AED 23 to AED 25 a slice at Al Halabi. By the kilo, Al Halabi prices cheese kunafa at AED 80 and cream kunafa at AED 75, cooked to order, which makes the kilo roughly three plates’ worth of money for a full tray of kunafa — the format a household should buy when kunafa is the dessert for a family rather than a single craving. Between the two sit formats that must not be divided into either: Al Halabi’s AED 40 plate with no weight stated and its AED 195 round trays, and Feras Sweets’ uncooked one-kilo trays at AED 95 on some listings and AED 116 on others, both kept because the same brand’s own menus split. One honest gap: Qwaider Al Nabulsi, the name most guides cite first for kunafa, prices every kunafa line on its Talabat menus as “Price on Selection”, so no Qwaider menu price could be verified for this page. Guides quote AED 15, AED 17 a piece or AED 58 to AED 65 — three figures that disagree with each other — and none of them is presented here as a price.
Baklava is a nut market. At Al Baba Sweets, cashew baklava lines run AED 105 to AED 115.50 a kilo while pistachio lines run AED 210 to AED 262.50 a kilo — the pistachio layer sits AED 94.50 to AED 157.50 a kilo above the same shop’s cashew layer, with a pistachio-and-cashew mix at AED 157.50 between them. Al Sultan’s one-kilo mixed box is AED 213 on some Talabat listings and AED 227 on others, with the smaller boxes splitting too — 750g at AED 157 to AED 167 and 350g at AED 81.50 to AED 102 — a listing-level difference with no explanation on the menus, quoted as a range rather than smoothed. For gifting and Eid boxes, the cashew-versus-pistachio choice is worth AED 100 or more per kilo at the same counter, which is the single largest saving available anywhere on this page.
What do bread and manakish cost?
| Item | Price (AED) | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic bread / khubz pack | 0.99–3.49 | Carrefour (0.99 for medium 4-piece and small 170g packs; 3.49 large 540g); LuLu (1.65–3.50) | Carrefour UAE and LuLu UAE listings |
| Sliced white loaf | 2.40–5.10 | LuLu own loaf (2.40 a packet; large 500g 3.50); Carrefour White Bread 600g (4.39); Lusine 600g (4.99–5.10) | LuLu UAE and Carrefour UAE listings (Carrefour loaf on opened page) |
| Manakish, zaatar (small) | 5.10 | Emirates Modern Bakery | Emirates Modern Bakery menu, Talabat |
| Manakish, zaatar | 9–13 | Al Manhal (9); Al Rageef Al Lebnani (10); Shamsin (11); Feras (13) | Bakery menus, Talabat |
| Manakish, cheese | 8–18 | AL Khayam Bakers (8); Al Madeena (11); Sweetland (13); Al Rageef and Feras (18) | Bakery menus, Talabat |
Bread is the layer where the UAE food budget barely moves. Arabic bread packs start at AED 0.99 — Carrefour sells both a medium four-piece pack and a 170g small pack at that price — and run to AED 3.49 for a large 540g Al Arz pack, with LuLu’s Lebanese and Arabic lines between AED 1.65 and AED 3.50. One Deliveroo grocery listing prices the same 540g Al Arz pack at AED 2.99 against Carrefour’s own AED 3.49; the own-site figure is the one in the table. Sliced white bread runs AED 2.40 for LuLu’s own packet loaf and AED 3.50 for its large 500g, AED 4.39 for Carrefour’s 600g white loaf on its opened product page (one Deliveroo listing shows AED 3.89 for the same loaf; the own-site figure is used) and AED 4.99 to AED 5.10 for the Lusine 600g loaf across the two chains. PAUL’s white loaf at AED 16 is a bakery-cafe loaf and sits in a different market entirely.
Manakish is the bakery breakfast that still prices like bread at the right counter. A small zaatar or feta manakish is AED 5.10 at Emirates Modern Bakery, cheese and zaatar manakish are AED 8 at AL Khayam Bakers, and the standard run of bakery menus prices zaatar at AED 9 to AED 13 and cheese at AED 11 to AED 18 — AED 18 at Al Rageef Al Lebnani and Feras Sweets. Size is part of every figure: the AED 5.10 lines are explicitly small, and large manakish lines on the same menus run to AED 24. For a household, a bakery manakish breakfast for four at the local end costs less than two premium croissants.
Where is the same item cheapest — supermarket bakery or bakery shop?
On almost every comparable line, the supermarket’s own bakery undercuts the bakery shop, and the gap widens as the item gets more ordinary. A butter croissant is AED 3.99 at Carrefour’s own bakery against AED 3.50 to AED 17 in bakeries — the cheapest bakery matches it, but the pack price of AED 13.79 for five has no bakery equivalent. A cake slice is AED 7.90 at LuLu against AED 23 to AED 28 at a bakery counter. A one-kilo whole cake is AED 48.50 to AED 66 at LuLu against AED 139 to AED 159 at Mister Baker. Spinneys sits between the two worlds — its 61g butter croissant at AED 6 to AED 6.25 and 270g muffin packs at AED 13.50 to AED 17 by listing are supermarket lines priced closer to cafe level — and Noon Minutes sells branded bakery lines like a BROD butter croissant at AED 9.75 list. What the supermarket does not sell is the Arabic-sweets counter: there is no supermarket equivalent in this research for a kilo of Al Halabi cheese kunafa at AED 80 or Al Baba’s baklava ladder, and the specialist sweet shops keep that market to themselves. The household rule that falls out of the tables: bread, croissants, muffins, slices and whole cakes come from the supermarket bakery unless the occasion is the point; kunafa and baklava come from the sweet shop, with the format — plate, kilo or tray — chosen before the brand.
Do bakery and dessert prices change between emirates?
Chains carry national prices — Mister Baker’s one-kilo cakes are AED 139 to AED 159 on listings in every emirate it serves, and the donut chains repeat their prices from one emirate’s listing to the next — so the differences below are about which counters exist locally, not different price levels. One genuine listing split does appear: Al Sultan’s one-kilo baklava box is AED 227 on its Sharjah-side listings and AED 213 on its Dubai-side listings, a branch difference recorded as found, not an emirate tariff.
Dubai holds the full ladder: the cheapest bakery croissant retrieved (Rich Pan, AED 3.50), the premium end (PAUL at AED 16 to AED 19 on an opened menu), the Al Baba baklava ladder in Al Barsha (AED 105 to AED 262.50 a kilo), Firas Plus kunafa portions at AED 22 in International City and Nablus Eats at AED 25 on both platforms. It is also where the most-cited kunafa name, Qwaider Al Nabulsi in Deira, has no verifiable menu price at all.
Abu Dhabi, including Al Ain, prices at the same chain levels: Cupital Cafe carries the joint-highest croissant at AED 17 plain and AED 19 cheese, manakish runs AED 8 at AL Khayam Bakers and AED 9 to AED 13 at Al Manhal, Bloomsbury’s whole cakes list at AED 199 to AED 219 and Magnolia’s cheesecakes at AED 40 to AED 45 on Al Maryah Island. In Al Ain, Yamazaki Bakery prices a plain croissant at AED 6.50 and cheese at AED 9.50, and Mister Baker’s Al Ain listing repeats the national AED 139 to AED 159 cake prices.
Sharjah’s priced evidence is strong at the bakery end: Sweetland Bakery’s manakish at AED 12 to AED 13, Sugarbox’s brownie lines, Feras Sweets’ frozen and uncooked kunafa lines, Spinneys at Zero 6 Mall with 270g muffin packs at AED 16.25, and a Dunkin’ premium dozen at AED 70 in Khor Fakkan. The Al Sultan baklava split above was found on Sharjah-side listings.
Ajman is priced through chains and one local bakery: two Mister Baker listings at the national cake prices (with a seasonal one-kilo Rangoli cake at AED 174), Sweetland Bakery’s manakish, Dunkin’s national donut prices at City Center and Lulu Pastry and Sweets’ chocolate chip cookies at a AED 25 list price.
Ras Al Khaimah carries the richest Arabic-sweets evidence outside the big cities: Al Halabi’s listing there prices the kunafa slices at AED 23 to AED 25, the plate at AED 40, cheese kunafa at AED 80 a kilo, cream at AED 75 and the round trays at AED 195, while Tim Hortons on Al Marjan Island repeats the chain’s AED 13 muffins and cookies and Krispy Kreme listings repeat the AED 7 single donut.
Fujairah’s evidence is one national chain listing — ADNOC Oasis Café pricing plain and cheese croissants at AED 9.75, the chain’s national price — and no independent bakery menu for the emirate was priced in this research. Umm Al Quwain is a near-total gap: no priced bakery, dessert or supermarket-bakery listing specific to the emirate was retrieved, and no price is quoted for it rather than a neighbouring emirate’s price being borrowed.
How can a household cut its bakery and dessert spending?
Buy whole cakes from the supermarket bakery. The one-kilo gap — AED 48.50 to AED 66 at LuLu against AED 139 to AED 159 at Mister Baker — is the largest single saving on this page, worth AED 85 to AED 100 per cake. A household marking birthdays and family occasions through the year saves more here than from every croissant decision combined.
Buy pastries in packs, not singles. Carrefour’s five-piece butter croissant pack at AED 13.79 works out under AED 2.76 a piece against AED 3.99 singly and AED 16 at a premium counter; its eight-piece packs and Spinneys’ multi-packs follow the same pattern. Donuts behave the same way in boxes — a Krispy Kreme dozen at AED 84 to AED 96 against singles at AED 7, and Dunkin’ boxes from AED 22 for three.
Choose cashew over pistachio when the box is the gift. At Al Baba the same baklava craft costs AED 105 to AED 115.50 a kilo with cashew and AED 210 to AED 262.50 with pistachio; the mixed box at AED 157.50 a kilo splits the difference. On a two-kilo Eid order the filling choice alone is worth AED 200 or more.
Match the kunafa format to the occasion. A single plate at AED 22 to AED 25 is the right price for one person’s craving; a family dessert should be the kilo — AED 80 for cheese kunafa at Al Halabi — not four or five plates at AED 88 to AED 125. Trays at AED 195 are party formats; do not let a tray be the default for a household of three.
Keep bread and manakish at the supermarket and the local bakery. Arabic bread at AED 0.99 to AED 3.49 a pack and sliced loaves at AED 2.40 to AED 5.10 are already the cheapest lines in the food budget, and a local-bakery manakish at AED 5.10 to AED 13 is a full breakfast for the price of a chain cookie (AED 10 to AED 16). The savings on this page come from the celebration and dessert layers, not from squeezing the bread layer.
Frequently asked questions
How much is a croissant in the UAE?
A plain croissant costs AED 3.50 to AED 17 in bakeries and cafes on menus checked on 10 November 2026 — AED 3.50 at Rich Pan Bakery, AED 6 to AED 6.50 at local bakeries like OPS and Yamazaki, AED 9.75 at ADNOC Oasis Café and AED 16 to AED 17 at PAUL and Cupital Cafe. A cheese croissant runs AED 4 to AED 19 on the same menus. Supermarket own bakeries sit below the ladder: AED 3.99 for a Carrefour butter croissant, or AED 13.79 for a pack of five.
How much does a birthday cake cost?
A one-kilo celebration cake costs AED 48.50 to AED 66 at LuLu’s in-store bakery and AED 139 to AED 159 at Mister Baker, on listings checked 10 November 2026. PAUL prices by size — AED 139 to AED 146 for 18 cm cakes, AED 184 for 28 cm — and Bloomsbury’s whole cakes list at AED 199 to AED 219. Mister Baker’s own menu note puts a one-kilo cake at eight to ten servings. No bakery checked publishes a per-kilo rate, so compare named cakes of the same stated weight.
How much is kunafa per kilo?
At Al Halabi Sweets, cheese kunafa is AED 80 for one kilo and cream kunafa AED 75 for one kilo, cooked to order, on its Talabat menu checked 10 November 2026. Single portions cost AED 22 to AED 25 a plate or slice at Firas Plus, Nablus Eats and Al Halabi. Feras Sweets sells uncooked one-kilo trays at AED 95 to AED 116 depending on the listing. Qwaider Al Nabulsi could not be priced: its menus show “Price on Selection” for kunafa, and guide figures for it disagree with each other.
Why is pistachio baklava so much more expensive than cashew?
Because the nut is the cost. At Al Baba Sweets, cashew baklava lines are AED 105 to AED 115.50 a kilo and pistachio lines AED 210 to AED 262.50 a kilo on the same menu — a gap of AED 94.50 to AED 157.50 a kilo inside one shop. A pistachio-and-cashew mix at AED 157.50 a kilo is the middle option, and Al Sultan’s mixed one-kilo box runs AED 213 to AED 227 by listing.
How much is a box of donuts?
Krispy Kreme’s dozen lists at AED 84 for Original Glazed and AED 96 for Assorted, with the half dozen at AED 34 to AED 39 depending on the listing; singles are AED 7. Dunkin’s box of three is AED 22, its half dozen AED 39 (the brand’s own social reply says AED 35; the menus say AED 39) and a premium dozen AED 70 on one listing; singles are AED 9 list. Lower figures shown beside several of these prices on the platform are promotions, not list prices.
What is the cheapest bakery breakfast?
On the menus checked, a small zaatar or feta manakish at AED 5.10 from a local bakery, or a supermarket croissant from a five-piece pack at under AED 2.76 a piece. A pack of Arabic bread starts at AED 0.99 and a sliced white loaf at AED 2.40, so a home breakfast of bread, cheese and tea stays in single dirhams per person — the bakery-cafe version of the same breakfast, a premium croissant and a chain muffin, costs AED 29 to AED 34 before coffee.
Sources
- Rich Pan Bakery, OPS Bakery, Yamazaki Bakery, ADNOC Oasis Café, The Bake Lab and Cupital Cafe menus (croissants), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/694626/rich-pan-bakery-international-city-2 and linked Talabat bakery listings
- PAUL Bakery & Restaurant menu, Deliveroo (opened page — croissant AED 16, cheese AED 19, 18 cm cakes AED 139–146, 28 cm cakes AED 184): https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/arabian-ranches-2/paul-bakery-and-restaurant-arabian-ranches
- Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ menus (singles, boxes and dozens), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/668831/krispy-kreme-enoc-rahmaniya and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/50504/dunkinoud-metha
- Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Datu Bakery menus (muffins, cookies), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/754990/tim-hortons-al-marjan-island and linked chain listings
- Brownie Point menu (brownies AED 12–22; cheesecake slices AED 23; whole 1 kg cheesecakes AED 180–190), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/695066/brownie-point-al-karama
- Magnolia Bakery menus (brownie AED 15; cheesecake AED 40–45), Talabat and Deliveroo: https://www.talabat.com/uae/grocery/33154/magnolia-bakery-dfc-dubai-festival-city
- Mister Baker menus (1 kg cakes AED 139–159; croissant packs of 2 AED 19), Deliveroo: https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/sharjah/muwailih-food/mister-baker-muweilah-commercial
- Bloomsbury’s menus (whole cakes AED 199–219 list), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/33673/bloomsburys-al-wahdah-mall-al-wahdah
- LuLu UAE bakery listings (1 kg cakes AED 48.50–66; 150g slices AED 7.90; sliced loaves AED 2.40–5.10; Arabic bread AED 1.65–3.50): https://gcc.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/fresh-food-bakery/
- Carrefour UAE bakery listings (butter croissant AED 3.99, 5-pack AED 13.79; White Bread 600g AED 4.39 opened page; Arabic bread from AED 0.99): https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/c/croissants-pastries and https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/c/arabic-flatbreads
- Spinneys listings via Deliveroo (butter croissant 61g AED 6–6.25; muffin packs; cookie 6-packs AED 15.25): https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/motor-city/spinneys-motor-city
- Noon Minutes bakery listings (BROD butter croissant AED 9.75 list): https://minutes.noon.com/uae-en/category/bakery/tortillas_wraps/
- Al Halabi Sweets menu (kunafa slices AED 23–25, plate AED 40, cheese 1 kg AED 80, cream 1 kg AED 75, round trays AED 195), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/51360/al-halabi-sweets-dafan-al-khor
- Firas Plus Sweets menu (kunafa portions AED 22), Deliveroo: https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/dubai-international-city/firas-plus-sweets-international-city
- Nablus Eats menus (Nabulsi kunafa AED 25 on both platforms), Talabat and Deliveroo: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/600584/nablus-eats-downtown-burj-khalifa
- Feras Sweets menus (uncooked kunafa 1 kg AED 95–116; manakish), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/25930/firas-sweets-al-taawan
- Al Baba Sweets menu (baklava: cashew AED 105–115.50/kg, mix AED 157.50/kg, pistachio AED 210–262.50/kg), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/34629/al-baba-sweetsal-barsha-1
- Al Sultan Sweets menus (mixed baklava box 1 kg AED 213–227 by listing), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/698606/al-sultan-sweets-muwaileh-commercial and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/606007/al-sultan-sweets-al-rigga
- Emirates Modern Bakery, AL Khayam Bakers, Al Manhal, Al Rageef Al Lebnani, Al Madeena, Shamsin and Sweetland Bakery menus (manakish AED 5.10–18), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/747107/emirates-modern-bakery-al-dahan and linked bakery listings
- Qwaider Al Nabulsi menus (kunafa lines “Price on Selection” — no menu price verifiable), Talabat: https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/40496/qwaider-al-nabulsi-sweets-al-dafrah
How we checked: every price in this article was retrieved on 10 November 2026 from a live Talabat or Deliveroo menu or a Carrefour, LuLu, Spinneys or Noon Minutes listing, with the seller named beside the figure. Talabat menus were read from the platform’s own menu text as indexed that day (Talabat pages do not render in full when opened directly); the PAUL Deliveroo menu and the Carrefour white bread page were opened in full. Where a menu showed a promotional figure beside a list price, the list price is quoted and the promotion ignored. Where the same item split across a chain’s own listings — Krispy Kreme’s half dozen at AED 34 and AED 39, Al Sultan’s baklava box at AED 213 and AED 227, Feras uncooked kunafa at AED 95 and AED 116 — both figures are reported rather than averaged. Items that could not be verified were dropped: no standalone cake-per-kilo rate exists on any menu checked, Qwaider Al Nabulsi’s kunafa has no retrievable menu price, and one bakery chain named in early research returned no priced listing at all.