Sweet Cheese Baklava

Name: Sweet Cheese Baklava
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 118 milliliters (1 stick) butter, melted; 454 grams pkg. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 118 milliliters honey, divided; 12 sheets frozen phyllo pastry, thawed, cut in half crosswise; 59 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 237 milliliters finely chopped PLANTERS Walnuts

The recipe Sweet Cheese Baklavan is ready in roughly 1 hour and is definitely an excellent vegetarian option for lovers of middl eastern food. One portion of this dish contains approximately 4g of protein, 17g of fat, and a total of 233 calories. This recipe serves 20. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of sugar, planters walnuts, vanilla, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.

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Oven

Combine walnuts, sugar and spices; set aside. Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup of the honey, the eggs and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.

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Cream Cheese

Vanilla

Walnuts

Spices

Honey

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Layer phyllo in 13x9-inch baking pan, brushing each phyllo sheet with butter and sprinkling rounded tablespoonful of the nut mixture evenly over every other phyllo sheet.

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Butter

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Baking Pan

Spread cream cheese mixture over top.

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Cream Cheese

Spread

Bake 25 to 30 min. or until cream cheese mixture is set.

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Cream Cheese

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Oven

Heat remaining 1/4 cup honey; drizzle over baklava. Cool to room temperature before cutting to serve. (To serve chilled, cover baklava with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator up to 2 days. For best flavor, remove from refrigerator about 30 min. before serving.)

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Honey

Wrap