Recipes..Baklava Poke Cake

Ingredients
Cake

15.25 oz box Butter Pecan cake mix
2 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup butter, melted
14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup honey

Whipped Topping
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/8 cup honey
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon
additional walnuts and honey for topping, if desired
Instructions

1. Bake cake according to package directions in a 9x13 cake pan.
2. While cake bakes, mix together walnuts, cinnamon and butter and set aside.
3. Once cake is done, removed from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes.
4. Mix together sweetened condensed milk and honey.
5. Poke holes all over the cake.
6. Pour about three quarters of sweetened condensed milk mixture over cake.
7. Cover cake with walnut mixture.
8. Pour the rest of sweetened condensed milk mixture over walnut layer.
9. Put cake in refrigerator and allow to cool completely and absorb the milk mixture, about an hour.
10. To make the whipped topping, freeze a mixer bowl and whisk attachment for 10-15 minutes.
11. Remove bowl from freezer and whip heavy cream until it begins to thicken.
12. Add powdered sugar, honey, vanilla and cinnamon and whip until stiff peaks form.
13. Spread whipped topping onto completely cooled cake.
14. Refrigerate cake until ready to serve.

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