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Coconut Basbousa- Syrup Cake Recipe


Coconut Basbousa- Syrup Cake Recipe
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1 year, 2 months ago
Another Middle-Eastern syrup cake , easy to make and great with coffee. A variety of recipes exist; this one with oil, others made with butter. All are sweet and delicious and realy very easy to make and look impressive. This is a different recipe... More
Prep:10m Cook:40m Servings:10

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup coconut flakes ( see note )
  • 1 cup plain or vanilla yoghurt ( I have even used flavored yoghurt like lemon,)
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 1/4 cups semolina flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup heavy cream or thick buttermilk
  • Syrup:
  • 1 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • few drops of: fresh lemon juice or orange flower water or rose water or almond extract
  • Garnish: almonds

Directions
  1. Prepare syrup ahead of time
  2. Boil sugar and water until syrupy and coats back of a spoon.
  3. Remove from heat and add flavoring if desired. Cool
  4. Syrup recipe may be doubled if you want your cake drenched in syrup !
  5. I prefer moist cake and not drenched
  6. Meanwhile prepare cake.
  7. Into a large mixing bowl, place all cake ingredients.
  8. Whisk well to combine smoothly
  9. In a large round cake pan ( I use 10 inch pan ) place batter and decorate top with almonds.
  10. Bake in a 350F preheat oven until golden and set, anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes.
  11. Remove from oven and pour syrup over cake.
  12. Let cool completely
  13. Note: Semolina flour and coconut flakes ( not shredded coconut ) can be gotton from Mid-East/Indian grocers or even natural food stores.
  14. I have frozen these cakes too with sucess.
  15. When using the buttermilk use 1 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp baking powder instead of 2 tsp baking powder
  16. These also can be baked individually into paper line cupcake/muffin tins

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momo_55grandma 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Great recipe thanks


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