I have just started the daring baker challenges. For the first challenge… Baklava from scratch! Now, I am not such a fan of baklava, but it was very timely because I leave this very evening for a month in Turkey, the home of baklava. Part of the challenge was creating the phyllo from scratch. I decided to be crazy, and try to make it gluten free.. BIG MISTAKE!! I think that gluten is inherently necessary for phyllo dough. I won’t go into details, but the baklava ended up rock hard.
The initial baking looked ok… though a bit thick, and the sauce looked fine. But when I let the syrup soak in overnight.. it did no such think.. it was left sticky and wet. Ewwww
Needless to say, gluten free baklava is not a recipe I will try again. And now, off to turkey and way better baklava!
I will try to post photos of yumminess I encounter
