How to Spring Perfect Lemon Semolina Cake

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Lemon Semolina Cake. Delicious, light and really easy to prepare cake with the use of semolina. Combine sugar, oil, and lemon zest, then gradually whisk in the eggs. Fold in the semolina, baking powder, ground almond and milk, mixing well.

Citrus and semolina is a bandwagon I needed to have jumped on a LONG time ago, seriously.

This orange cake I made had blown my mind, and I don't know why lemon wasn't brought into the picture earlier.

Making up for lost time by eating allll the cake now!

You can cook Lemon Semolina Cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Semolina Cake

1. You need of egg yolks.

2. You need of egg white.

3. It’s of Vanilla extract.

4. It’s of Buttermilk.

5. It’s of lemon zest.

6. It’s of All-purpose flour.

7. You need of Semolina flour.

8. It’s of Sugar.

9. It’s of Baking powder.

10. You need of Iodized salt (fine grain).

11. It’s of Butter (softened).

The April issue of Bon Appetit featured mini lemon-semolina syrup cakes, a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi's next cookbook, a dessert one, which is still in its recipe-testing phase.

While I am not into mini anything right now — the less greasing/pan preparing the better — and while I don't care for extra steps like syrup making (so lazy!), the ingredients for the cake looked so good: one.

This lovely and simple Italian recipe has its roots in Naples the place where you can find those gorgeous perfumed juicy lemons!

This cake is usually served during Carnival time and it is like a light cheesecake, made with semolina, ricotta, lemon, vanilla and no flour. yes it does sounds and it is a fantastic combination of flavours indeed.

Lemon Semolina Cake step by step

1. Preheat your over to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 177 degrees Celsius..

2. Whisk together the lemon zest, buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla extract in a medium bowl..

3. Combine the all-purpose flour, semolina flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a medium sized bowl. The end result should appear uniform..

4. Combine the flour mixture with the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs..

5. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Mix until just combined. Be careful not to overmix, this can cause your cake to deflate..

6. Pour batter into a 9 inch pan or into a cupcake pan evenly. A 9 inch pan should take anywhere between 18 to 22 minutes and a cupcake pan will take between 14 to 18 minutes..

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.

While cake is soaking, bring water and sugar to a simmer, let simmer for five minutes, turn off heat.

After one hour, cut semolina cake into your pattern of choice.

Place blanched, peeled almonds in a decorative pattern.