Chak-chak is made from unleavened dough cut and rolled into hazelnut-sized balls, which are then deep-fried in oil.

Optionally, hazelnuts or dried fruit (e.g. apricots and raisins) are added to the mixture.

The fried balls are stacked in a mound in a special mold and drenched with hot honey.

After cooling and hardening, chak-chak may optionally be decorated with hazelnuts and dried fruits.

The biggest chak-chak weighed 4,026.4 kilograms (8,877 lb) and was prepared on 14 June 2018 during start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Kazan.