Baklawa for the dummies

The traditionnel way of doing baklawa can take hours of work but because my mum knew that I can't afford spending hours in the kitchen with my busy life she made up this easy to do version with actually a very decent result.

• Start by preheating the oven (180°C).
• Chop the the nuts with a food processor but not really to a powder you still want to have small pieces of nuts.
• Mix the chopped nuts + sugar + cinnamon + egg yolk + the orange blossom essence. You should get a porridge like consistency.
• Butter an oven dish and then lay in the first puff pastry roll. Cut any excess of dough. 
• Fill the dough with the nuts mixture.
• Put on top the second puff pastry roll.
• With a knife, cut to the bottom of the dish diamond shaped pieces.
• Stick in each piece a blanched almond (half of the almond would go into the baklaw, it helps maintaining the top layer of dough).
• Melt the remaining butter and use it to butter the top of the baklawa.
• Put the baklawa in the oven for 1 hour.
• In the meanwhile prepare some sirup by boiling the water + honey + orange blossom essence until it thickens (well like a syrup but not as thick as honey).
• Once you take the baklawa out of the oven pour the syrup on it and let it stand.
• Once cooled down you can enjoy it with a nice green tea with mint or any other beverage of your choice !