Week 21: Nuts - Walnut Baklava [Baking]

Intro from Baking Challenge: Packed full of protein and, in some cases, incredibly deadly to a lucky subset of people! Yay nuts! There's a huge variety of them and they all work so well in baking. They're perfect as just a simple addition to a recipe such as White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies or German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars. Or, go a bit classier with a Nutty Biscotti or some Pistachio Macarons. Nuts are also great as the main feature of the dish such as these Honey Nut Bars or the classic Baklava. Of course nuts can also be turned into nut butters, which are also amazing in baking. Peanut butter is the old stand-by but Nutella is also crazy popular.

Good lord, these are tasty! Recipe stolen from here. The fillo dough was definitely a bit of a pain to work with, but I got into a groove after the first few tries. I picked up some delicious whipped honey with cinnamon by Andrew's Honey at the Union Square Greenmarket and used it with this (leaving out the cinnamon in the nut mixture) - Wow, that stuff is really good. I was eating this straight from the pan.