Ingredients
- 500 g almonds
- 150 g pine nuts
- 150 g hazelnuts (shelled, toasted)
- 300 g granulated sugar
- 700 g of pastilla leaf
- 4 ground gum arabic
- 2 spoons of powdered sugar
- 1/2 spoon of cinnamon
- 2 spoons of orange blossom water
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 egg
- 100 g crushed almonds
Preparation
Mhancha (Moroccan Almond Cakes) is a delicious rolled cake, stuffed with almond paste and coated with honey. Essential during holidays and personal occasions, and above all essential on the Ramadan table. It is shiny and decorated with crushed almonds.
Grind, boil the almonds, peel them, dry them, Grind the almonds with the sugar. Add the toasted and ground pine nuts, the toasted and ground hazelnuts, the orange blossom water, the butter, the cinnamon, the crushed gum arabic. Mix well. Make long sausages.
Coat the pastilla sheet with butter, place the almond sausages at the edge of the sheet, fold around it, and stick the edges of the sheet with the egg yolk, coat the sausages with beaten eggs, arrange the crushed almonds.
Place on an oiled baking tray, bake at medium temperature for 15 minutes.
Let cool then sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut with a sharp knife.
source: la-cuisine-marocaine.com
