Receta Recipe: M’Hanncha Coiled Serpent Cake

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…