Shaabiyat are made of crispy, dreamy, sweet, and delicious layers and layers of phyllo dough filled with a traditional homemade Lebanese Ashta cream filling and finished with a rose-water syrup.
Before cutting the phyllo, placed it on the plastic wrap it was rolled in, length wise (rectangular).Pour butter or coconut oil all over and around the phyllo sheets, then using the plastic wrap, fold it in and allow to soak.
Cut once horizontally (from left to right) half way for bigger sized warbat like mine. Or, cut 2 horizontal cuts from left to right about 4 inches apart for traditional smaller warbat
Take one square stack of phyllo and quickly dip it into the melted butter or coconut oil Fil the center with ashta and close to make a triangle by folding one middle corner to meet the adjacent middle corner.