Baklava Cups

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Baklava Cups

Recipe by whenyourhungryCourse: DessertCuisine: TurkishDifficulty: Easy
Servings

3

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes
Total time

30

minutes

Baklava is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and held together with a golden honey syrup!

These mini baklava cups taste like authentic baklava but are so much simpler!  A delicious treat that can be baked for Thanksgiving, Christmas or just any party and they will fly off the plate! 
These Baklava cups are cute and the flavor is fantastic! They are loaded with a blend of pistachios, walnuts and almonds. Feel free to create your own blend with different nuts like pecans, cashews – any nut really! The syrup is made with sugar, honey, lemon and water which makes these baklava cups perfectly moist and completely irresistible

Ingredients

  • ½ cup fine sugar

  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

  • ½  cup water

  • ¼ cup honey 

  • 2 cups of pistachios + walnuts + almonds

  • 2 tbsp melted butter

  • Pastry sheets/ filo pastry

Directions

  • To make the golden syrup, in a medium saucepan, combine sugar, lime juice, water and honey
  • Bring this mixture to a boil over medium heat and stir to dissolve the sugar. This would take about 5 minutes. Remove the syrup from heat and let it cool at room temperature while preparing the other parts
  • In a food processor, pulse together the nuts of your choice, I did use pistachios, walnuts and almonds. Transfer to a mixing bowl and add the melted butter and stir well to combine (Additionally, you can cinnamon at this stage, that I completely skipped)
  • For this recipe, I used store bought fine pastry sheets that I put placed on the cupcake tray. Between the layers, brush a little melted butter, I put around 4-6 layers of pastry sheet one over the other (Instead of using pastry sheets, you will have a great results if you use filo pastry sheets, layer about 6-8 filo sheets)
  • Now, scoop out a large spoon of the nut mixture and place it over the last pastry sheet that was arranged in the cupcake tray
  • Bake for about 12-15 minutes at 350 F, until golden brown
  • Once out of the oven, immediately spoon cooled syrup over nuts, adding 1 tsp to each one to let the syrup soak in then repeat with another teaspoon of syrup until all syrup is used up
  • Rest these baklava cups at room temperature for about 8 hours or overnight for flavors to absorb and cups to soften. Serve as is or drizzle with honey or golden syrup

PRO TIP

  • Recommend using store bought filo sheets for this recipe (Thaw before use), that you can nicely shape and place into the individual cups and then line with melted butter, line about 6-8 layers
  • If you do like cinnamon, sprinkle some cinnamon lightly over the baklava cups or into the nut mixture  
  • You can make these a week ahead in time and store refrigerated. Thaw at room temperature before serving and will be just as good!