Basbousa - Arabian semolina cake
Time
Preparation time: 15 min.
Cooking or baking time: 35 min.
Total preparation time: 50 min.
ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 100 g of coconut flakes
- 400 g of soft wheat semolina
- 90 g of sugar
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda
- 10 g vanilla sugar
- 200 g of flour
- 490 g of milk
- 113 g of butter or corn oil
- 113 g of margarine
For the sugar syrup:
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 400 ml of water
- 400 g of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of orange blossom water
preparation
- Put all ingredients in a bowl and stir with the blender for 5 minutes.
- Fill the dough in a greased and floured baking pan and bake at 180 ° C for about 35 minutes.
- For the sugar syrup over medium heat the sugar is stirred in a small pot of the water to the lemon juice until the sugar is dissolved. Now stir in the orange blossom water and let the syrup cool down.
- After baking, pour the cold syrup over it.
