Baklava is an enticing Middle Eastern dessert. Delicate layers of golden filo pastry sandwich a filling of nuts and all of it is doused in an exquisitely flavored sugar syrup. This vegan baklava has all of that allure and then some more!
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Baklava is an enticing Middle Eastern dessert. Delicate layers of golden filo pastry sandwich a filling of nuts and all of it is doused in an exquisitely flavored sugar syrup. This vegan baklava has all of that allure and then some more!

Who doesn't love baklava" This delicious pastry has it all: it's crispy, juicy, sweet and it has delicious nuts. It's so beloved, in fact, that it has nations, particularly Greece and Turkey, fighting to lay claim to its origins.
To me, one of the best things about baklava, besides that exquisite deliciousness, is the ease of veganizing it -- and making it.

Yes, you read that right. This really is a pretty simple recipe, especially if you have some experience handling filo pastry dough. And it takes barely minutes to put together. In fact, this was the very first veganized dessert I shared on the blog all the way back in 2007, and I can't believe it's taken me this long to update it.

The only reason why this recipe could be daunting to a beginner cook is the difficulty of handling filo pastry sheets, which are paper-thin and tear easily. But filo can also be very forgiving because you are piling so many sheets on top of each other ...