Easiest Way to Summer Eating on a Dime Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake)

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Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake). Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake) This delightful syrup cake is a super moist cake with a delicate blend of cardamom and orange blossom. A Perfect, light, sweet cake with soft texture. Sometimes it's called baklava cake, perhaps due to lozenge cut of cake.

It was beautiful with golden layers of filo pastry, a gorgeous green Pistachio crumb and a drizzle of glossy sweet syrup.

Since then it has been on my 'to make' list.

This is a far easier version of that.

You can have Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake) using 21 ingredients and 33 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake)

  1. Prepare 3 cups (600 g) of plain flour.

  2. You need 1 cup (200 g) of sugar.

  3. Prepare 1 cup of milk.

  4. You need 1 cup of soft butter.

  5. You need 5 of eggs.

  6. Prepare 1 tbsp of baking powder.

  7. It’s 1 tbsp of cardamom.

  8. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.

  9. You need 2 tsp of saffron water.

  10. It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

  11. It’s of For syrup.

  12. Prepare 1 cup (100 ml) of water.

  13. Prepare 3 cups (600 g) of sugar.

  14. Prepare 1/2 cup of rose water or orange blossom.

  15. Prepare 1/2 of fresh lemon.

  16. Prepare 2 tsp of saffron water.

  17. It’s of For glazing.

  18. Prepare 1 of egg.

  19. It’s 2 tsp of saffron water.

  20. Prepare 1 tbsp of plain yogurt.

  21. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

The cake will be well risen and springy, but still very moist.

After a few minutes cooling time, pierce the cake all over with a skewer and spoon the extra golden syrup over the top.

Leave to cool completely in the tin.

This Golden Syrup heart loaf cake is a cake within a cake… well, not quite.

Golden syrup cake (Baklava cake) instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 175C. Grease baking tray with butter. Set aside..

  2. Crack 5 eggs in mixer bowl. Add sugar and beat together until slightly fluffy..

  3. Add 2tsp saffron water and butter. Combine together..

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  5. Then add cardamom, salt, 1tsp vanilla extract and ½ cup milk. Mix all well..

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  8. Add flour and baking powder to the egg mixture and combine all together for 2 minutes..

  9. Finally add ½ cup of milk again..

  10. Pour cake mixture in the baking tray. Now, to make the glazing top of the ckae, we need to crack last egg in a bowl. Add yogurt, 2 tsp saffron water, 1 tsp vanilla extract and mix well..

  11. And spread the mixture top of the cake. Place it in the oven and bake it for 35-40 minutes..

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  14. While cake is baking, we prepare the syrup. In a pot with 100 ml water, add sugar, rose water or orange blossom, lemon juice and saffron water. Let it boil for 10 minutes, then turn off the heat and let it cool..

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  18. Once cake is ready, let it cool. Cut it into small pieces..

  19. Pour cold syrup top of the cold cake and let it soak for 2 hours. Your delicate cake with amazing taste is ready to be served..

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What you do is mix two different batters; in this recipe one is a beetroot cake and the other a golden syrup one.

The finished product looks much more tricky to do that it actually is.

Golden syrup - this unique ingredient lends a wonderful taste to cookies and cakes.

It is very easy to find in the UK and becoming more popular worldwide.

Light corn syrup is the closest substitute I can think of but although close in consistency it won't have the toasted caramel flavour that makes golden syrup so delicious.