Cardamom Vanilla Bean Baklava

Sometimes you need cookies and sometimes the occasion calls for something a bit more splurge worthy. Enter baklava. Everyone fawns over it and it looks ever so fancy with it’s delicate flakey layers but shh don’t let anyone know it’s actually incredibly simple to put together. If you know anything about our blog it’s that super fancy looking but simple to make are our favorite recipes in the world. 

In its most basic form baklava is simply just butter, nuts, phyllo dough and a honey syrup that you pour all over it. We’ve so got this. Let’s jump in. 

Pulse the nuts and cinnamon in your food processor until finely ground.

And then add layers and layers of phyllo and nuts, brushing them with butter. 

Slice through the phyllo with a sharp knife cutting it into triangles.

Lots of triangles! And then into the oven it goes. 

While it is cooking we make a simple syrup sauce. Cardamom, sugar, honey, vanilla beans and lemon zest mix with water and boil down until thickened slightly. 

And then we spoon it into the cracks and pour it all over until everything is soaked through with the syrup. Let it cool fully. 

And serve! 

It’s perfect for the holidays and entertaining where you need to pull out something with that extra pizzaz. 

Of course I wouldn’t turn it down for my morning coffee either!

And I definitely know quite a few people in my family who wouldn’t turn it down for a Christmas morning brunch too.