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Apricot Baklava
Prep Time: 45 min
Cook Time: 2¼ hours
Servings: SERVES 25
Ingredients
1/2 cup Sue Bee Honey
1 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup unsalted butter
20 filo pastry
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cashews
1/2 teaspoon white wine
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups dried apricots
1/4 cup apricot flavored white wine
1 teaspoon wine
Directions
- Warm 3/4 cup wine in saucepan and remove from heat
- Add raisins and soak for 2 - 4 hours
- Put apricots in saucepan and cover with water
- Bring to boil and simmer for 40-45 minutes till very tender
- Drain and reserve liquid if any left
- Process apricots in food processor or mash till smooth
- Put in large bowl
- Add drained raisins, reserving the wine
- Mix in white sugar, cinnamon, 1/2 tsp wine (from the raisins), vanilla, brown sugar
- Allow to cool
- Mix in cashews
- Butter a 13X9X2 baking pan
- Open filo sheets and cut to size of pan
- Process one at a time keeping the rest covered
- Brush butter on top of one sheet and place in pan
- Repeat with 10 sheets one at a time and layer them in pan
- Cover last sheet with apricot mixture
- Cover with the next 10 filo sheets buttering each one as before
- Slice through the top layers diagonally to create diamonds
- Bake at 350 for 40 - 45 minutes till brown on top
- Put on rack to cool before adding syrup
- SYRUP
- In saucepan mix honey, water, nectar (reserved from apricots), sugar, vanilla and wine (from the raisins)
- Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes
- Allow to cool completely
- Drizzle on Baklava
- Cover and cool for several hours
- Best if cooled overnight
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