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Easy Baklava

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Easy Baklava - Place two sheets of phyllo in the bottom of the prepared dish. Cut a diagonal diamond pattern in the baklava using a very sharp knife. I love baklava but rarely indulged because it took so much time to make. Then a friend of mine gave me this simple recipe. I've made these squares for family, friends and co-workers—they can't get enough.

Easy Baklava

It's not as hard as you think- especially with this super easy trick!

If you are not making phyllo sheets from scratch, it is really so easy to make baklava using packaged phyllo.

You can have Easy Baklava using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients make Easy Baklava

  1. It's Filling.
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup pistachio.
  3. Prepare 1 1/2 cup pecans.
  4. You need 1 tbsp cinnamon.
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cloves.
  6. Prepare Pastry.
  7. It's 1 cup unsalted butter, melted.
  8. You need 1 packages phyllo dough sheets (fillo).
  9. It's Syrup.
  10. You need 1 cup water.
  11. It's 1/2 cup sugar.
  12. It's 1/2 cup honey.

Easy Baklava step by step

  1. Thaw phyllo dough according to directions on package..
  2. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  3. In a food processor, combine all the filling ingredients and pulse a few times to mix the nuts as well as grind them down into pieces..
  4. On low heat, melt your butter in a sauce pan. Open the phyllo dough and lay out flat. Trim the sheets of dough to fit a 9"x3" baking pan (casserole dish). Split the dough into four equal stacks. They dont have to be perfect numbers..
  5. Lay first stack of dough into pan. Next sprinkle some of the filling on top. Repeat this step two more times. Lastly, add the final layer of dough on top. Feel free to do as many layers as you like and any thickness you like..
  6. Cut the pastry into 24 squares. Remove foamy white part from melted butter. Pour melted butter over all the pastry evenly..
  7. Bake pastry for 40 minutes..
  8. Remove from oven and allow time to cool off and become crispy..
  9. Meanwhile, in a sauce pan on medium high heat, bring water and sugar to a boil. Stir and ensure all sugar is dissolved. Add honey and bring back to a boil then lower to simmer for ten minutes..
  10. Once pastry has cooled off, pour syrup over all the pastry evenly..
  11. Allow the pastry time to rest up to as many as 15 hours in order to enjoy the baklava at its finest..

Easy Baklava - It tastes like the baklava I buy in the Greek stores downtown and a LOT cheaper per piece. Right off the bat I will let you know I use "phyllo" (filo dough) in this post. It is just how I was brought up. That is what my Greek family refers to it as. Quick and Easy are probably two words you would never expect to see in the same sentence as Baklava, but believe me…. this is easy. Everyone will love this sweet and sticky dessert! This flaky dessert makes a lovely addition to holiday gatherings and can be added to a treat tin with Snowball Cookies and Gingerbread Pecans for giving! Thank you and good luck