Baklava Cake. In a large bowl sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and cloves. Baklava Cake is traditionally made on Persian holidays as well as casual dinner parties. Mix the spices and sugar with coarsely chopped walnuts in a small bowl. Baklava Cake

You can have Baklava Cake using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Baklava Cake
  1. Prepare 3 cups of chopped walnuts.
  2. Prepare 2 cup of honey.
  3. You need 1/3 cup of sugar.
  4. You need 1 cup of melted butter.
  5. It’s 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
  6. You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
  7. Prepare 1 of boxed cake mix I used a yellow buttery cake mix.

While the baklava is baking, make the sauce that goes on top. Bring to a boil and let the sugar dissolve. Squeeze in the lemon juice and the orange blossom water. When the baklava is done baking, pour the syrup over the top then let cool completely.

Baklava Cake instructions

  1. Preheat oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  2. 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..

  3. Crush the walnuts a bit and set aside..

  4. 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..

  5. 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..

  6. Add honey mixture to the bottom cake, along with half the honey mixture. Premeasure before the cakes are done..

  7. Add top cake to the one with walnuts and honey which is on the plate..

  8. Add the rest of the walnuts and honey mixture to top. Let rest and cool..

  9. Cut into diamond or rectangle shapes, and serve or serve as traditionally cut cake..

  10. I hope you enjoy!.

While it is cooling, make the cream. 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. So did you watch the USA vs Germany World Cup game today? I'd say it was a great game, but we lost.