Baklava Fingers
This sumptuous desert of sweetened walnuts encased in light and flaky filo pastry, soaked in a sweet honey syrup, is a great companion with a cup of tea.
2T soft brown sugar
1Tb honey
1tsp ground cinnamon
1Tb lemon zest
20g butter, melted
10 sheets filo pastry
50g butter, melted
Syrup
1 cup sugar
2 T honey
Method
To serve:
pink Persian fairy floss
- Pre heat oven to 180c, line a tray with baking paper.
- Place the walnuts, sugar, cinnamon, honey, lemon zest and butter into small bowl of a food processor, and pulse until finely chopped (if you do not have a food processor chop the walnuts as finely as possible with a knife).
- Remove one sheet of filo and cover the rest to prevent drying out. Place the sheet of filo onto workbench and brush with melted butter, place another sheet of pastry on top.
- Cut sheet into 2 strips for large fingers or 2 strips for smaller fingers.
- Divide mixture into 10, and shape into a log, it should be 2/3 of the length of the pastry. Place a log of mixture in the centre of the pastry.
- Fold edges over the nut mixture, brush length of pastry with butter roll.
- Brush top with a little more butter and dust cinnamon over, place onto lined tray and repeat with remaining mixture.
- To make the syrup, combine the sugar, honey and ½ cup water in a small saucepan. Stir for one minute, allow to reach a boil then reduce temperature to a simmer, simmer for 5 minutes. Pour syrup over baklava fingers.
- Serve fingers individually with Persian fairy floss.
Baklava before being baked
Baklava served with pink Persian Fairy Floss
Reblogged this on Midnight's Treasure and commented:
This Looks Like it Tastes So Yummy! I can not wait to make it for My Family! I want to share it with My Bloggers!! Thank you !!
Did you give them a go ? did your family enjoy them?
Yes!! They absolutely LOVED Them!! Thank you so MUCH!! I really enjoy your recipes!! Your Blog is Fantastic! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
I have always been scared to try making baklava because it always has so much flavour I assume it was super complex. But this recipe makes me want to try it. Simple ingredients and they turned out beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Please try it and let me know how yours turns out.
It’s one of my favourites 🙂
Apopofred did you give them a whirl ? where you impressed ?
Given that my mouth is watering at the sight of this baklava, I think that I really must try out this recipe! Thanks for posting.
Please let me know how you go !
Totally amazing and not too complex !
Shall do, you enabler you! 🙂
Sadly too late for late night run to the shops for pastry…sigh.
Did you give these a go ? Flick me a picture of how yours turned out 😉
I have always wanted to make baklava.These look so good!! May have to give your recipe a go!
Missemzyy did you give them a go ? I look forward to seeing pics of how yours turned out !
I will have to when I get back from my holiday! Will let you know 🙂
Reblogged this on Las Vegas Cool & Easy Cooking and commented:
From my new fan comes this great Baklava Finger Recipe. Also the Pesto Tart To Food With Love created.
Paulette L Motzko
I am glad you loved the recipe !
Please post a photo so I can see how yours turned out !
I surely will.
What is your name?
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Paulette Motzko
I’m loz 🙂
Nice to meet you Loz.
Yum! Looking forward to trying this one with my recent research on tea. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Wow, nice! Kind of curious about the Persian candy floss, might have a look for it. I like your blog a lot!
You could use other fairy floss, Persian is slightly more stringy, specialty food stores should stock it.
I’m on a whipped cream phase and sure this is great on its own but would want to scoop some cream with it. Yummy. Thanks for the food pics
Baklava is my son’s favorite! You made it look easy 😉 May actually let the kids make it for Christmas.
Christmas is way too far away !
It is easy you can try it any day, please keep me posted and let me know how it turns out for you
Great post. Made my mouth water. Yumm
Every time I have tried making Baklava, my pastry’s just too thick. If you’re making your own pastry…How do you get it thin, without the whole thing falling apart?
Hi,
For this recipe I am using store bought FILO pastry, it’s paper thin.
If you were making your own pastry you would need to roll it out evenly to the desired thickness so that it would be perfect for your dish.
I hope that helps !
Let me know how guy get on making the baklava