Completely toasted English muffins get topped with an additional thick, further chunky crispy-chewy nutty sugary topping. Completely heavenly and works for breakfast, snack, or as an after-dinner deal with.
Sure, it appears bizarre, however toasted English muffins loaded with a pistachio-walnut-butter-brown-sugar combination and broiled to caramelized perfection is straight from the heavens. Add slightly mascarpone cheese, slightly drizzle of honey, and that is my breakfast (snack? dessert?) life-style proper now.
English Muffin Baklava
![Close-up of baklava english muffin](https://pinchofyum.com/wp-content/uploads/Baklava-English-Muffin-1.jpg)
Lindsay’s Notes
I noticed this concept in a Style of Residence journal that my mother-in-law gave me and I mainly rotated and made it 5 minutes later. It’s a type of recipes the place you go, “Hey, that’s a good suggestion! And I’ve all the things I want!” Which implies you can also make it quick, and repeatedly. Which is precisely what I did – correction – nonetheless am doing.
You toast your English muffins, fire up your nuts and butter and brown sugar, prime all of it with the mascarpone cheese and honey… and now that is simply how we reside. WHAT IN THE WORLD! It’s so pleasant. Nutty, buttery, crunchy, and barely caramelized but in addition has a creamy sauciness from the melty mascarpone and honey. All on the exceptionally textured, crispy-chewy floor of an English muffin.
It’s an ideal breakfast, afternoon espresso break snack, or after-dinner dessert. Adore it for the entire above.
I made a couple of modifications to the recipe because it was within the journal – for instance, I toasted my English muffins earlier than and after including the nut combination. I used the next nut-to-butter ratio to ensure that the nut layer was further thick and chunky, and I modified the serving measurement to three items. Will we approve?
Mascarpone is just not a standard ingredient in baklava so I used to be slightly skeptical of how that may play right here, nevertheless it was superior. You don’t want far more buttery-ness with the nuts and butter already in there, however having a creamy ingredient helped to tone down a few of the sweetness of the nut filling and the honey drizzle. It was simply heavenly to chunk into.
How To Make This Little Delight
Step 1:
Combine up some softened butter, floor up pistachios, walnuts, and brown sugar.
![Ground up butter, nuts, and sugar in a bowl](https://pinchofyum.com/wp-content/uploads/Baklava-English-Muffin-2.jpg)
Step 2:
Toast your English muffins underneath the broiler.
Then unfold them with the nut combination and return to the broiler for yet another minute till bubbly and barely set. Watch them rigorously as a result of they are going to burn!
![Nut mixture spread onto English muffins](https://pinchofyum.com/wp-content/uploads/Baklava-English-Muffin-3.jpg)
Step 3:
High with mascarpone cheese, honey, and extra nuts! So wonderful.
![Mascarpone cheese gets spread with nuts and sugar on English muffins](https://pinchofyum.com/wp-content/uploads/Baklava-English-Muffin-4.jpg)
Description
Completely toasted English muffins get topped with an additional thick, further chunky crispy-chewy nutty sugary topping. Completely heavenly and works for breakfast, snack, or as an after-dinner deal with.
Pistachio Walnut Combination:
Different:
- Preheat the broiler – I take advantage of the “Low Broil” setting however each oven might be totally different for which setting works finest.
- Pulse the nuts in a meals processor till finely chopped. Put aside a couple of spoonfuls of the nuts for topping. Combine the remaining nuts, butter, and brown sugar collectively in a small bowl.
- Toast the English muffins on a baking sheet lined with foil till toasty – about 3 minutes.
- Unfold English muffins with the nutty butter combination. Return to the oven, a couple of inches away from the broiler, for 1 minute or till bubbly and barely caramelized.
- High with slightly child dollop of mascarpone cheese and provides it a delicate swoop to soften it in. End with further nuts and honey. Pour your self a cup of espresso to go along with it. OMG, it’s so good!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook dinner Time: 5 minutes
- Class: Breakfast
- Technique: Broil
- Delicacies: Center Jap-Impressed
Key phrases: baklava english muffin, baklava on english muffin, english muffin snack
Ceaselessly Requested Questions For English Muffin Baklava
You might simply make this on any sort of toasted bread – or possibly even crackers?! Yum!
I normally make it unexpectedly, however the nut combination ought to final a day or two within the fridge – the feel may simply change slightly because the nuts soften.
Use a gluten-free English muffin for a gluten-free model! Use dairy-free butter and skip the mascarpone cheese for a dairy-free model.
A kitchen torch is perhaps a bit intense for slightly snack like this, however it will positively work to toast and caramelize the topping! A toaster oven would additionally work nice.
Using pistachios and walnuts, butter, and honey provides it a texture and a taste that’s harking back to baklava! Not the identical factor by any means – baklava is a really concerned, multi-layered, multi-textured dessert made with phyllo (it’s epic). However that is just like the price range model for these of us who simply need the style of it in a fast breakfast or snack. 🙂