Baklava Cake. In a large bowl sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and cloves. Add dry ingredients to wet and whisk until just until flour is incorporated, being careful not to over mix. Pour batter into pan, over walnuts.
You can have Baklava Cake using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Baklava Cake
- Prepare 3 cups of chopped walnuts.
- Prepare 2 cup of honey.
- You need 1/3 cup of sugar.
- It’s 1 cup of melted butter.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 of boxed cake mix I used a yellow buttery cake mix.
Baklava is made with almonds, pistachios or walnuts. In this recipe I have used a combination of all of them because I wanted to give this cake all of the flavor I possibly could. To start the Bundt cake by combining the nuts with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and corn syrup. Baklava is a Greek dessert made from layers of buttered filo dough alternated with a nut-sugar-spice mixture, which is then baked until golden brown and then soaked in a chilled honey syrup immediately upon removal from the oven.
Baklava Cake step by step
Preheat oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix the cake mix with 3 eggs, water, and butter, instead of oil. Bake per instructions on box. I used two, eight inch cast iron skillets, to bake in. So measure the cake batter out before starting to pour. Equal amounts in both..
Crush the walnuts a bit and set aside..
In a pot, combine walnuts, 1/3 cup sugar, 2 cups honey, and Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved, add the vanilla extract, then reduce heat and boil additional 4 min without stirring. Remove from heat and let syrup cool..
When the cakes come out of oven, move one to a plate, leave the other in the skillet or pan. The one removed will be the bottom..
Add honey mixture to the bottom cake, along with half the honey mixture. Premeasure before the cakes are done..
Add top cake to the one with walnuts and honey which is on the plate..
Add the rest of the walnuts and honey mixture to top. Let rest and cool..
Cut into diamond or rectangle shapes, and serve or serve as traditionally cut cake..
I hope you enjoy!.
When done well, it tastes like a warm, buttery, nutty, and honey-tastic version of heaven. Arrange baklava pieces in a ring over baked crust, with pointed end of each piece pointing toward center and wide ends around outside edge of pan. Pour batter over baklava into baked crust. In a food processor, add the toasted walnuts and pistachios. Pulse until the nuts are in small crumbs.
