Balkan Baklava Country of Origin: Bulgaria Yield: 4 servings Prep time: 30 minutes Total time: 1.5 hours
Ingredients For filling: 4 1c 1c 1 tsp 1/2 tsp 300 g
Eggs Sugar Flour Baking powder Vanilla extract Crushed walnuts
Additional ingredients: Some Butter Some Oil 2c H2O 2c Sugar Sliced Lemon 1 pkg. Phyllo dough
Directions 1. Mix eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder and vanilla into a cake 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
batter. Leave to the side. Melt butter with oil and grease a baking tray. Using half of the phyllo dough, stack layers of phyllo sprinkling the melted fat between each layer. Mix the cake batter with the crushed walnuts and pour over phyllo dough. Stack the remaining phyllo dough on the cake batter, sprinkling the melted fat between each layer. Cut diamonds into pie and bake at 350⁰F for until golden. Remove and let rest for 24 hrs. Heat H2O, sugar, lemon and vanilla until sugar is melted and slightly thick. Pour syrup over pie and let rest for 24 hrs. 43
