Recipe: Eating on a Dime Semolina cake

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Semolina cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Semolina cake. Fold in cake flour, semolina flour, and chopped almonds. Arrange orange slices in a single layer and generously dust with confectioners. Sift together the flour, semolina flour, and baking powder.

The start-to-finish time is long, but this tender-crumbed, syrup-soaked cake, very loosely based on Lebanese sfouf, is simple to make and requires little hands-on effort.

We toast the semolina, coconut and cornmeal to heighten the flavors and aromas, then after cooling, we allow them to hydrate in a mixture of yogurt, tahini and water.

Therefore, semolina can cause the cake to have somewhat of a coarse texture (especially if you don't use fine semolina, which this recipe calls for).

You can cook Semolina cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Semolina cake

1. You need 1/2 cup of refined flour.

2. You need 1/2 cup of unsalted melted butter.

3. It’s 1 cup of powdered sugar.

4. You need 1 &1/2 cup of semolina (lightly roasted).

5. Prepare 1/4 cup of whisked yoghurt.

6. You need 1 cup of warm milk.

7. It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.

8. It’s 1/2 tsp of baking powder.

9. It’s 1 tsp of vanilla essence.

10. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.

11. Prepare 2 tbsp of tutti frutti.

But this flavor combination, as well as the citrus syrup, results in a delicious and moist dessert.

Mix together flour, sugar, and baking powder very well in large bowl.

Basbousa cake is a well known middle eastern dessert made with semolina flour, coconut and yogurt.

The coarse semolina flour gives the cake its signature sandy texture, but its drenched in a flavorful simple syrup which makes it super moist and has a melt-in-your-mouth texture.

Semolina cake instructions

1. Combine refined flour, semolina, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and keep aside..

2. Combine melted butter, yoghurt and powdered sugar in an another bowl..

3. Whisk continuously till the batter turns silky smooth..

4. Add milk and vanilla essence..

5. Now add the flour mixture and tutty frutty..

6. Mix well and keep aside for half an hour..

7. Grease the cake tin with butter..

8. Transfer the mixture to the cake tin and bake the cake at 180 degree celcius for 40 mins..

9. Cool down the cake completely..

10. Cut the cake before serve..

Place the butter in a small bowl and melt in the microwave.

In a large mixing bowl, combine together the sugar and yogurt.

Now add in the semolina, baking powder and milk.

I just adore this Greek Orange Semolina Cake, with its sunny citrus flavour (please tell me I'm not the only person who describes citrus as 'sunny') and luxuriously soft and moist texture, this cake is a must try.

I've made this semolina cake a number of times now and it turns out beautifully every time.