This is an Egyptian sweet semolina cake. There are so many versions of this cake. Some use only semolina and some use flour and semolina in various proportions. There are also recipes using egg. This is an eggless recipe. The preparation is quite easy and interesting. Sugar syrup is poured on the baked cake to make it soft.
After seeing the amount of syrup, I was afraid that I will end up with a sticky cake. But to my astonishment, the cake absorbed all the syrup and it was very soft and not sticky.
I first saw the preparation in Fox History-Egyptian Food Safari. From that day, I was tempted to prepare it. I searched for a recipe in you tube and I came across this one. Today I collected all the ingredients and prepared this delicious and soft cake. Hubby liked it a lot.
Ingredients:
For The Cake:
Fine Semolina-2 1/2cups
Flour-1/2cup
Baking Powder-1 1/2tbs
Grated Coconut-1/2cup
Melted Butter-1cup
Rose Essence-1tsp
Curd-125gm
Sugar-100gm
Pistas-20-25nos
For The Syrup:
Sugar-1 1/2cups
Water-1cup
Rose Essence-1tsp
Procedure:
1. Mix flour, semolina, baking powder, sugar and coconut.
2. Mix rose essence and curd.
3. Add butter to the semolina mixture and mix well.
4. Add the curd and bring everything together.
5. Grease a 8″cake tin and place the dough inside.
6. Press it to level the surface.
7. Cut it into diamonds with a knife.
8. Place a pista in each diamond.
9. Preheat oven to 150C.
10. Bake for 40minutes or until the top is golden brown.
11. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine sugar,water and rose essence and bring it to boil.
12. Simmer and let the syrup boil for 5minutes.
13. Pour the hot syrup on the hot cake and set it aside.
14. The cake will slowly absorb the syrup and when cool, the surface will be dry to touch.
15. Cut along the lines. Remove from pan and serve.
Photo Tutorial:
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Prepare dough |
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Press it into the cake tin |
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Cut diamonds and place pista in each diamond |
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Bake till golden |
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Pour the syrup on top |
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When cool, the surface will be dry |
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Serve |
Wow looks perfectly done..yummo yum
perfect….looks very delicious
wow dat looks amazing..can i have a slice!!??:)
Dr.Sameena@
http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com/
looks delicious n yummy..perfect
The cake looks amazing… Loved the idea of pouring the syrup after the cake is baked… It must have tasted heavenly..:)
Thanks for sharing dear..:)
Reva
looks delicious. I too watched this episode but I got only the part where the syrup was poured over the cake. I loved it then but forgot all abt it. Must be getting old:)Thanks for the egg less version.
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In Dubai,U can get it easily,semolina with grated coconut yields a spongy yumm basboussa.Luv it dear.luv to try it soon.
Name itself tempting me…looks amazing!!
omg…this is absolutely delicious..:)
Looks so tempting Gayathri..I wanna try this..
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Love basboussaa, feel like grabbing some, soo tempting..
WOW!!! the basboussa looks superb. I am book marking this recipe 🙂
Wow that a tempting recipe and mew to me
Heard a lot of this popular dessert…But never got around to making or tasting this…Bookmarking this one…Looks fab!!!
Prathima Rao
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wow this looks so good ….lovely pics ….it’s just perfect
Wow! looks very yummy and moist. Here in madurai,they are selling a cake called pudding cake in all the bakeries. it looks something like this cake only, do you know how to prepare it. i googled but didnt find it. if you know means please tell me.
really very yummy…. book marked…
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Akila
Hi,
Is the baking powder mentioned in the recipe is 1 1/2 tablespoon or 1 1/2 teaspoon and one cup is equivalent to how many grams ?
Thanks,
Syamu
It is 1 1/2 table spoons Syamu. And for the measurements please see this post. https://gayathriscookspot.com/2014/07/conversion-recipe-measurements/
Hi,
Thank you so much for your prompt reply…..
syamu
I would like to try this!!it looks very yummy!! Can you tell me measurement of curd in cups?thanks!
It is a little more than 1/2 cup..