Go Back

Baklava Cupcakes

Print Recipe
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, Mediterranean

Ingredients
  

CUPCAKES

  • 1 ¼ cup Vegetable oil
  • 2 ½ cup Sugar
  • 1 ¼ cup Water
  • ½ cup Orange juice
  • 1 each Orange rind, grated
  • ½ tsp Cloves, ground
  • ½ tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp Baking powder
  • 4 cup Flour

Honey Simple Syrup

  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 cup Water
  • ½ cup Honey

Filling

  • 1 cup Toasted walnuts, ground fine
  • ½ tsp Cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 4-5 tbsp Honey syrup

Cream Cheese frosting

Instructions
 

Cupcakes

  • Make cupcakes, using cream method. Bake 18-22 minutes.
  • Core when cooled.

Syrup

  • Combine ingredients, bring to boil for 5 minutes.

Filling

  • Combine ingredients in processor, process to thick paste.
  • Inject into cupcakes.

Assemble process

  • Brush cupcakes with syrup, frost & top with filling. Garnish with baklava crumbs & cinnamon-sugar.