My fellow blogger Fae, a brilliant lady who always writes flavourful posts and lovely comments, made an announcement today: she went “.com”! And in her new domain she came up with an amazing idea to get feedback from us readers as to how we use her recipes: a section called ‘Look, I made it’! When I read it in the morning I thought ‘I want to be the first one’ but errands got in the way and I only had the chance to bake late in the night.
So, after going through her recipes again, I decided to make the ‘Baklava Cake’ but with a ‘twist & tango’: I baked it as cupcakes 🙂
IRANIAN BAKLAVA CUPCAKES
INGREDIENTS
60g flour
60g confectioner’s sugar
110g blanched almonds
2 eggs
½ tsp baking powder
1½ tsp ground cardamom
30g unsalted butter
SYRUP AND TOPPING
120ml water
100g caster sugar
1 ½ tsp rose-water
roughly chopped pistachios to decorate
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180oC and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cups.
Mix all the cupcake ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
With an ice cream scoop pour the batter into the prepared cups, smoothing the tops. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
While they bake, combine the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Take away from heat and add the rose-water.
As soon as the cupcakes come out from the oven, prick the tops with a skewer or a fork and carefully ‘feed’ them with the syrup. Bring the remaining syrup back to a boil and let it cook for a further 3-5 minutes, so it thickens a little. Pour the syrup into a cup, immerse the top of the cupcakes in it and sprinkle them with the pistachio.
NOTES: I got 9 cupcakes but Fae baked hers in a 23 cm round tin.
tea with erika 
wow – how amazing! Love syrup cakes but would never have thought of doing it with cupcakes. And pistachio – drooool 🙂
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Pistachio is one of my favourite nuts too 🙂
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These look incredible! My mouth is watering!
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Thank you, Tonette!
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These cupcakes look super tempting 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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They were delicious, if I may say so 😉
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Reblogged this on The Broke Persons Guide to College Cooking and commented:
Came across this recipe on a blog that I follow. I thought it was creative and unique and way worth investing the time in trying..yummy
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this looks so good
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Thanks, Catherine!
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They’re beautiful Erika!
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Thanks, Lidia!
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These pictures are gorgeous!
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A perfect combination!
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Almonds, rose-water, cardamom and pistachios – it couldn’t be any more elegant, right?!
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I love baklava so these are very tempting!
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They’re very delicious, Sorcha!
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Brilliant, Erika!!!
As you wished, you are the first! It is a beautiful post! I am so impressed! Thank you for participating! 😀 Fae.
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Yay!!! Thank you so much, Fae!
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You are featured, check it out!!!
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Hi Erika,
Yesterday, I had to make some adjustments to my blog’s ‘Look, I made it!’. Now, your Baklava Cupcake is featured at:
http://fae-magazine.com/2013/05/15/look-i-made-it-%E2%86%92-iranian-baklava-cupcakes/
(FYI, ‘Pingback: WELCOME|’ below goes nowhere. You may want to delete it.)
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Ok, Fae. Thanks!
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