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Persian Love Cake
Persian Love Cake
A delicious cake full of flavor and so easy to make. Delicious full-of-flavor Persian cake with almond flour
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Total Cook Time
55 Minutes
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Prep Time
15 Minutes
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Cook Time
35-40 Minutes
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Recipe Servings
6 servings
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Difficulty Level
Intermediate
Ingredients
- 90g butter
- 160g caster sugar
- 60g oil
- 2 large eggs
- Zest of 1 orange/lemon
- 3 tbsp orange/lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 155g all purpose flour
- 100g almond flour
- 35g semolina or more flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 180g milk
- chopped pistachio
Instructions:
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For the cake :
- Add softened butter, oil and sugar to a bowl and cream it together. Add zest of one orange .
- Add 2 eggs and mix well . Then add cardamom powder, cinnamon and orange juice
- Add all the dry ingredients and baking powder. Lastly add some milk and mix everything. Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature .
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celcius for 35-40 minutes . Optionally you can make a glaze:
- For the glaze combine 1/4 cup double cream with 1 tbsp icing sugar some saffron strands and cardamom powder.
Top the cake with the glaze , dries rose petals and pistachios.
A special thanks to the wonderful, creative baker Maleeha(@krustandfrost) for creating this delicious recipe, she is super talented!
Key Ingredients: pistachio, dried rose petal, glaze