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Ingredients

• 27 sheets Athens Phyllo Dough (9″x14″), thawed
• 3 cups salted canned cocktail peanuts, chopped
• 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
• ½ cup light brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon ground Saigon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon Chinese star anise powder
• 1 ½ cups butter, melted
• Syrup:
• 2 cups water
• 1 fresh lemon grass stalk, roots and upper third removed, bruised
• 1 inch gingerroot, grated
• Zest from 1 large lime
• ½ cup honey
• 2 cups light brown sugar