Special Semolina Cake(Love Cake)
Cake made with semolina and other spices
Recipe by christy gerald of Dubai, AE
Love Cake is one of the fav.cakes in SriLankan homes.It is a dense and rich cake full of nuts with a nice aroma of honey,spice and rosewater.It's very sweet and quite moist.I dedicate this recipe to my Srilankan Friend Rukmal.
Ingredients
vegetarian
10 servings
- 250 gm Semolina
- 125 gm Butter
- 4 Egg Yolks(optional)
- 500 gm Castor Sugar-powdered
- 100 gm Cashew nuts - crushed
- 50 gm raisins
- 15 gm cherries-chopped fine
- 2 tbsp lemon rinds-finely grated
- 1/4 tsp Ground mace or nutmeg powder
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- 1/2 tsp almond essence
- 2 tbsp rose water(or substitute this with 1 tbsp vanilla essence)
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 tbsp ghee
Directions
- Roast semolina in ghee and let it cool.Grind this into a coarse powder.
- Heat butter in a kadai and melt it.
- Mix the butter with Powdered semolina.
- Beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and creamy.
- Add semolina and butter mixture and beat till well mixed.
- Add chopped nuts,raisins,chopped cherries,rose water,honey,nutmeg powder,lemon rind,cardamom powder,almond essence and cinnamon powder and mix all together well.
- Grease and line a 20cm square tin with 2 sheets of greaseproof paper.Brush the inner paper with melted butter.
- Pour the cake mixture into a flat cake tin lined with grease paper and bake in a oven at 150 degree C (300oF) for about 35 to 40 mins(till the top of the cake begins to change colour into golden brown and the cake cooked through).
- When cooked the center of the cake will still be moist.So the skewer test isn't recommended.Don't attempt to turn out this cake.
- Cut into small squares and lift them on to a serving tray.