Walnut layer cake

Hi Friends! Today is about a recipe very dear to me. Which is over 100 years old. For me it represents a memory and I wish to share it here in my Journal of recipes. It used to be a cake for celebration, especially for Christmas time. It’s a delightful dessert , layered cake, that combine the sweet sirup with the rich, earthy flavour of walnuts.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 350 g flour
• 150 ml water
• Oil and salt

Ingredients for simple sirup:

• 350 g sugar
• 500 ml water

We will also need 500 g walnuts.

Methods:

• In a bowl start making the dough by mixing the flour, salt, oil and the water. Mix well until a dough is formed. Let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Prepare your working table by sprinkling flour and start rolling thin, circle shape of dough.
• In a hot pan, dry roast the sheets of dough. From this recipe you can get around 20 sheets
• Next step in our recipe is to make the simple sirup by adding in a pan the sugar and water.
• Place the pan on a stove, let the sirup reach the boiling point and make sure the sugar is all dissolved.
• Let the sirup cool down.
• Use a cake form to assemble the cake and start at the bottom with a sheet of dry roasted dough.
• Use the cold sirup to wet the roasted dough then sprinkle walnuts and sugar.
• Repeat the process until you used all the dry roasted dough.
• Let the cake cool down in the fridge for up to 6 hours for the layers to absorb all the sirup.
• Enjoy with a glass of cold lemonade.

Serves: 16 slices

Time : 1 hour 45 minutes