Method
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees fan and butter a 23 inch baking tin. Put the walnuts, sugar and cinnamon into a food processor and blend until fine.
- Lay the pastry onto a chopping board so thats its landscape to you. Brush the butter over the top. Sprinkle the nut mix over the pastry and gently pat it into the pastry. Starting at bottom, roll up the pastry like a cigar. Cut into 10 pieces. Be very gentle when cutting so that you don’t squash the pastry. Place into the baking tin, three in the middle and the rest around them and bake for 35-40 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile make the frosting. In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and rose water together until smooth. Spread over the buns. Scatter over the pistachios and rose petals and serve immediately.
Ingredients
Makes 10
For the baklava buns
80g walnuts
80g golden caster sugar
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
320g pack of ready rolled puff pastry
30g melted butter, plus extra for greasing
10g Iranian pistachio slithers, fine ground
1 tbsp rose petals
For the frosting
150g cream cheese
80g icing sugar
2 tsp rose water
