Recipe Card

I decided to try my hand at making a recipe card. My first attempt is this card for my SIL and future BIL groom's dinner:



_{I used Gina Cabrera's Lucky Star Kit at Digital Design Essentials}

SOUTHERN BAKLAVA

4 1/2 Cups Pecans
1/2 Cups Sugar
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 Cup Honey (I use Clover)
Fillo Dough 1 to 2 boxes (Phyllo)
1 to 2 lbs. butter

Pastry brush
Jelly roll pan

Grind nuts fine then add sugar and cinnamon. Mix together with spoon and set aside. In a jelly roll pan begin by thinly buttering the bottom, then add 5 layers of Fillo, buttering between each layer. Then spread nut mixture in a thin layer add two more layers of Fillo. Follow to top of pan alternating 1 layer nuts 2 fillo (***alternative is to use the rest of the nut mixture after the initial thin layer to give it a punch of pecan taste). Then add 5 to 10 layers of Fillo for crust. Make sure to butter between each layer of dough. Follow directions on the Fillo box to keep it easy to work with.
***Before baking cut the Baklava (pizza cutter works well) so the honey will seep in and make it yummy!
Bake at 300 degrees for 1hour and 15 minutes- until golden brown
Melt honey in pan and pour over baked Baklava.
Best after sitting over night.

Baklava is amazing stuff. I love the layers of phyllo dough. This recipe was given to me a few years ago by Heather Daly. It was a perfect treat for my husband who liked the concept of baklava, but his tongue would swell due to an allergy he had to walnuts and go numb from the cloves, so the substitution of pecans and honey was perfect. It's kind of a zen activity.