Persian Love Cake

Persian Love Cake

Cook Time:
35-40 Minutes
Prep Time:
15 Minutes
Total Time:
55 Minutes
Servings:
6 servings
Difficulty:

Ingredients

    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

    Instructions:

    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"]