Coconut Turkish Baklava Recipe – Coconut Cake

Turkish baklava recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams thin layers of dough (you’ll get about 16 layers)

Coconut filling ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 300 grams shredded coconut
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1.5 cups sour cream
• 1 cup vegetable oil

Vanilla syrup ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar (or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla)

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Syrup recipe: Pour sugar and vanilla in water to boil (to melt sugar) and remove it from the heat. Cool it.

Coconut filling recipe: Beat eggs with sugar. Mix baking powder and coconut in it. In the end, pour sour cream and oil in that mass and mix all ingredients together.

Coconut Turkish baklava recipe: Arrange ingredients in this order:

1. 1 thin layer of dough
2. Spread coconut filling on it
3. 1 thin layer of dough
4. Spread coconut filling on it
5. 1 thin layer of dough
6. Spread coconut filling on it
7. 1 thin layer of dough
8. Roll it and put it into greased pan
9. Repeat, till you spend all dough layers

Count dough layers before you start to make cake, so you can arrange equal rolls (you will get 4 rolls). Grease top layer with two tablespoons of oil and cut every roll in smaller rolls (about 2 inch). Bake it in preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.

If it is easier for you, you can spread filling on every dough layer till you spend it all, like in Easy Cherry Apple Pie Recipe (just without fruits). This kind of filling spreading I like better.
Pour syrup on the coconut cake and let it to absorb the syrup. This Turkish dessert recipe needs to be cold before serving, so it is the best to refrigerate it over night. Enjoy your delicious coconut cake recipe!