Turkish Desserts – Easy Baklava Recipe

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Recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams thin layers of dough (you can buy it in Turkish store, you’ll get 10-16 layers of dough)
• 800 grams sour cherries
• Cooking oil

Filling ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 150 grams biscuit crumbs
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup cooking oil

Syrup ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup water

Syrup recipe: pour sugar in water to boil for 5 minutes and remove it from the heat. Leave it to turn cold.

Filling recipe: mix all filling ingredients together.
Easy baklava recipe: grease the cake pan and put ingredients in this order:

1. 2 thin layers of dough (spread one tablespoon of oil between them)
2. spread 2-3 tablespoons of filling
3. repeat, till you spend half of dough layers

Pour sour cherries on it (drain them gently before) and continue to arrange 2 thin layers of dough – filling – 2 thin layers of dough. Do not apply fill on top of the cake, just grease it with two tablespoons of oil.

Cut the cake and bake it in preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Pour syrup on the cake and return it in turned off oven for 10 minutes more, to absorb the syrup. Serve it cold. Turkish dessert recipes are really delicious and I gladly make them. Easy baklava recipe will excite even the biggest gourmand for sure .