This is a traditional Arab cake that became very popular in Israel. The name basbousa means in Arabic a thousand kisses
Basbousa – Semolina Cake
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 1 cup semolina
- 1 cup flour
- juice of 3 oranges
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 cup boiling water
- silan date syrup
- nuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. In a mixing bowl combine the eggs and baking powder with a hand mixer. Add the vanilla sugar, semolina, flour, orange juice, oil, coconut flakes and sugar and mix. Don’t over mix it! Bake in a greased pan for 30 minutes.
- In a small saucepan, bring the honey, lemon juice and water to a boil and cook for 2 minutes and cool.
- Once you remove the cake from the oven, while it is still hot, dredge the syrup on the cake a few tablespoons at a time. Let the cake absorbs the syrup and continue with the rest of the syrup in the same way.
- Serve the cake with silan and nuts.
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This should NOT be tagged as a Passover recipe, as it contains semolina flour.
Great! happy to hear and i will try adding the plums next time. shana tovah
Hello Giuliana. 9” pan. good luck!
I used two small pie pans. Put a layer of halved Italian plums on the bottom. Was especially good after sitting two days! This is a fantastic recipe to play with.
What size pan?