How to make the Baked Sandesh

• Soak the almonds overnight to peel off the skin and grind to a smooth paste with a few tbsp of milk. Keep it aside.
• Make fresh paneer at home and if using lemon, run it in water to remove the citrus flavour. Let it drain to remove the whey.
• Finely, chop the nuts and power to fine.
• The recipe also calls for desiccated Coconut. I could have easily dried it in microwave, however, I didn't think it would affect the final taste, so used fresh coconut. See notes*
• In a bowl, take the coconut, almond paste, the crumbled paneer along with nuts powder (save some for topping). Mix everything well.
• Slowly add the condensed milk. Check for sweetness and add cardamom powder.
• In the dish, you are going to bake, fill with the paneer mix. Next, layer it with roasted peanut powder. Next, layer with nuts powder.
• Finally, layer with milk biscuit crumbs.
• Pre-heat the oven at 185 C. Bake for 10 mins.
• The sweet is quite firm after baking.