How to Prepare At Home Coconut semolina/basbousa cake

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How to Prepare At Home Coconut semolina/basbousa cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Coconut semolina/basbousa cake. Mix the semolina, coconut, sugar, baking soda, and the butter in a large bowl. Use your hands to incorporate the butter with the other ingredients until mixed well. Add the yogurt and continue mixing with your hands until fully combined.

Treat your taste buds to the super moist and decadent Middle Eastern (Egyptian) classic made with semolina and coconut.

With the added sweetness from rose flavored sugar syrup, this cake is the ideal way to take your celebrations to the next level.

The best basbousa recipe you will find!

You can have Coconut semolina/basbousa cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Coconut semolina/basbousa cake

  1. It’s of semolina/sooji.

  2. Prepare of all-purpose flour.

  3. You need of dry coconut powder.

  4. It’s of sugar powder.

  5. Prepare of eggs.

  6. Prepare of oil.

  7. Prepare of curd.

  8. You need of baking powder.

  9. It’s of sugar.

  10. It’s of water (for syrup).

  11. You need of Few drops lemon juice.

An Egyptian almond-coconut semolina cake, drenched in cinnamon syrup.

Treat your taste buds to the super moist and decadent Middle Eastern (Egyptian) classic made with semolina and coconut.

One bowl, mix and dump kind of recipe, yet is hard to make perfect.

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

Coconut semolina/basbousa cake instructions

  1. Mix well all the dry ingredients together, including coconut powder..

  2. Whisk all wet ingredients together nicely..

  3. Add wet ingredients mix to dry mix fold it gently in cut and fold method..

  4. Shift the batter to cake tin and bake the cake in preheated oven for 40 minutes on 180 degree centigrade. When done take the tin out and cool it..

  5. Prepare sugar syrup just boiling for just five minutes, add few drops of lemon juice to it..

  6. Pour warm syrup on little warm cake..

  7. Let it rest and cool down, then unmould it..

  8. Decorate with some pistas, coconut and almonds..

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.

Orange basbousa recipe with step-wise pictures and video recipe.

Basbousa is a popular and traditional Middle East dessert that is prepared with coconut and semolina and soaked in flavored sugar syrup.

I have slightly modified the recipe and prepared in orange flavor.

This cake is crumbly, juicy, moist and delicious.