# We made prickly pear desserts with women producers in Taşobası

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Published: 2020-08-14

In Taşobası, Tarsus, we demonstrated how prickly pear can be used in desserts, sharing another way for women producers to make use of unsold fruit.

**We joined women producers in Taşobası, a neighbourhood of Tarsus, for a practical demonstration of making desserts from prickly pear.** Together, we explored how the fruit could be turned into another product, and participants had the opportunity to taste the desserts.

The activity focused on **making use of prickly pears that could not be sold as fresh fruit**. We showed women producers how the fruit could be used in desserts. The demonstration covered preparation, cooking and serving, introducing different culinary uses for a local product.

The gathering was part of the knowledge-sharing activities we continued after our [Rural Development with Local Products Project](/en/projects/rural-development-with-local-products-project), carried out in 2016–2017. By sharing the experience developed through the project with women producers, we aimed to highlight ways of using prickly pear beyond selling it as fresh fruit.