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Shendetlie Honey and Nut Cake

Albania dessert from TheMealDB, the open recipe collection. Originally published by myalbanianfood.com.

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Ingredients

  • 300 g Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 180 g Melted Butter
  • 700 g Flour
  • 100 g Walnuts
  • 4 tablespoons Honey
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 220 g Sugar
  • 450 ml Water

Method

  1. 1

    1 Prepare In a mixing bowl cream together the eggs, sugar and cooled melted butter then add the honey and soda. 2 Add half the flour and the walnuts (you can add the walnuts whole or ground them) and mix well. 3 Add the rest of the flour and using your hands kneed the mixture together until a firm dough is formed. 4 Coat a large baking tray (traditionally a circle tray is used about 30cm is best with a 2 - 3 inch height) with olive oil.

  2. 2

    Add the dough and press it down so that it fits the whole tray.

  3. 3

    Try and get the dough flat and equal in height all over. 5 Baking Place on the bottom shelf of a cold oven and turn the temperture up to 180 degrees.

  4. 4

    Bake for 35 minutes and the dough has turned dark brown and is firm to touch. 6 Remove from the oven and leave to cool while making the syrup. 7 Adding the Syrup Add the sugar and water to a saucepan and bring to the boil.

  5. 5

    Leave boiling for 10 minutes, mixing occasionally.

  6. 6

    Remove from the heat. 8 Cut the Shendetlie into squares of diamond shapes and pour over the hot syrup.

  7. 7

    Use enough of the syrup to cover the cake plus 1 cm overflowing, sitting on top.

  8. 8

    This will soak into the cake while you leave it to cool for at least 1 hour before serving.