Sweet Cheese Baklava
- 2 cups walnuts, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 4 each eggs
- - PHILADELPHIA Original Cream Cheese, softened
- 1 cup honey, divided
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 24 sheets frozen phyllo sheets, thawed, cut crosswise in half
- 1 cup butter, melted
- Combine walnuts, sugar and spices; set aside.
- Place eggs, cream cheese, 1/2 cup of the honey (or 1/4 cup of the honey for trial recipe) and the vanilla in 6-qt.
- bowl of electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment.
- Beat on medium speed 1 min.
- or until well blended.
- Scrape paddle, bottom and side of bowl.
- Beat an additional 30 sec.
- Layer phyllo sheets evenly in two half-steamtable pans (or in one half-steamtable pan for trial recipe), brushing each sheet with butter and sprinkling every other sheet with 1 rounded tablespoon of the walnut mixture.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over layers in each pan.
- Bake in 300 degrees F-convection oven 20 to 25 min.
- or until cream cheese mixture is set.
- Heat remaining 1/2 cup honey (or remaining 1/4 cup honey for trial recipe); drizzle over baklava.
- Cool to room temperature.
- Cut baklava in each pan into 20 pieces.
walnuts, sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, eggs, cream cheese, honey, vanilla, phyllo sheets, butter
Taken from www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/sweet-cheese-baklava-109497.aspx (may not work)