Recipe: M’Hanncha Coiled Serpent Cake Recipe

This crescent shaped pastry is stuffed with delicately flavored almond paste and coated with icing sugar. M'hanncha means "the snake" and this pastry certainly looks like a snake. It is made of filo dough and is then coiled like a snake. It is filled with an almond paste. You can make a large pastry with larger sheets of filo, or you can make individual sizes, which is much 8 sheets of filo 4 Tbsp butter, 1 egg 1 tsp Powdered sugar for 4 Tbsp butter, 2 c ground ½ tsp almond ½ c powdered 1 egg, 1 Tbsp rose or orange flower First make the paste. In a food processor, grind the sugar and almonds together. Add the cinnamon and…