Rosewater and almond cake
Ingredients
- Rose shaped silicon pans are now available at specialist shops.
- 225 g (435 ml) flour
- 5 ml (1 t) baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 100 g ground almonds
- 125 ml (½ c) caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 45 ml (3 tbs) honey
- 250 ml (1 c) plain yoghurt
- 150ml sunflower oil
- zest of 1 lime
- Rose water syrup
- 150 ml water
- 125 ml (½ c) caster sugar
- juice of 1 lime
- 45 ml (3 tbs) rosewater
- Decoration
- 50 g pistachio nuts
- A handful of dried or fresh rose petals
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Grease a 22 cm cake tin.
1 Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the sugar and ground almonds.
2 Mix the eggs, honey, plain yogurt, oil and lime juice. Make a well in the center of the sifted dry ingredients and add the egg mixture. Mix with a whisk until just combined.
3 Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes until golden brown or until a skewer comes out clean. Let the cake cool for 20 minutes in the pan.
4 Rose Water Syrup.
Heat the water and sugar in a small saucepan over low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
5 Add the lime juice and cook for 3-5 minutes until the syrup has reduced by half. Remove and set aside to cool. Add the rose water to the cooled syrup.
6 Press small holes with a thin skewer in the cake and pour the syrup over the cake.
7 Sprinkle the pistachios and rose petals on the cake.