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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

    1. Roast semolina in ghee and let it cool.Grind this into a coarse powder.
    2. Heat butter in a kadai and melt it.
    3. Mix the butter with Powdered semolina.
    4. Beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and creamy.
    5. Add semolina and butter mixture and beat till well mixed.
    6. 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.
    7. Grease and line a 20cm square tin with 2 sheets of greaseproof paper.Brush the inner paper with melted butter.
    8. 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).
    9. 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.
    10. Cut into small squares and lift them on to a serving tray.

    Comments

    christy gerald

    christy gerald

    Hi Rabz, I happened to taste this Love cake (my Hubby's Srilankan friend Rukmal brought us from Srilanka) just 2 days before I reached Dubai. He gave this recipe (which I verified this on the net before submitting here).I will taste Basboas next time and see the difference.

    rabz

    rabz

    HI CHRISTY , NICE 2 SEE UR RECIPE AFTER SUCH ALONG TIME.IS TIS SOMETHING LIKE BASBOAS LIKE THE ARABS MAKE BUT WIT A LIL TWIST?