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Cream-Filled Baklava

Yields12 ServingsPrep Time40 minsCook Time25 minsTotal Time1 hr 5 mins

Baklava or baklawa is one of the most delicious mouth watery dessert. It comes in different shapes and fillings. Some stuff the layers of Fillo dough with pistachios, others with walnuts, and others with cream as in our recipe which is stuffed with cream and comes with a triangle shape..

 phyllo pastries
 1/2 cup margarine
 1/2 cup sunflower oil
Desserts thick cream:
 5 cups cream
 6 tbsp flour
 4 tbsp sugar
For garnish:
 ground pistachio
 Sugar syrup
1

Grease an oven tray with margarine.

2

Melt margarine and mix it with sunflower oil.

3

Layer half the phyllo pastries in the tray, brushing each piece with margarine and oil before adding the next.

Preparing cream filling:
4

Whip well flour, sugar and 5 cups cream. Put mixture over heat until thick.

5

Pour the cream mixture over phillo pastries then cover it with the rest of the phyllo pastries brushing each piece with margarine and oil.

6

Place the tray in a preheated oven at 355 F (180°C) for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

7

Pour the syrup over the warm baklava; let soak, uncovered. Garnish with pistachio. Serve.

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