Persian Love Cake 2
Valentine’s day is a celebration of romance and love in many countries around the world including Iran. This day is a Western festival but perhaps you may know, in Iran we celebrate it twice. Yes that’s right twice. The first one is on the 14th Feb based on western calendar and second one is on the 24th Feb.
Iranian day of Love, which is called(Sepandarmazgaan سپندارمذگان), is on the 24 of Feb, and dating back to the Achaemenid Empire the first Iranian Empire (550 to 330 B.C.). So in ancient time, It was a special feast of the women and girls. Men used to make them presents, all women and girls were treated as queens and whatever they wished, would be done by their men.
The following recipe, is called, Persian Love Cake or as we say in Farsi: کیک عشق ایرانی and do you know why it is called that??well, In the legends from many antiquity, a young woman was in love with a Persian prince and she decided to make a cake with love and aromatic spices such as cardamom, nutmeg, rose water, orange juice, ….to his prince😍😎.
So, If you want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with exotic flavours cake, you are in right place. This is my Persian Love cake: It’s beautiful to look at and delicious to eat with a lemony flavour, floral scent of rose water, very moist texture and decorated with almond flakes and dried rose petals.
Once you learned how to make this cake, you will be making it again and again.
Persian Love Cake 2
Valentine’s day is a celebration of romance and love in many countries around the world including Iran. This day is a Western festival but perhaps you may know, in Iran we celebrate it twice. Yes that’s right twice. The first one is on the 14th Feb based on western calendar and second one is on the 24th Feb.
Iranian day of Love, which is called(Sepandarmazgaan سپندارمذگان), is on the 24 of Feb, and dating back to the Achaemenid Empire the first Iranian Empire (550 to 330 B.C.). So in ancient time, It was a special feast of the women and girls. Men used to make them presents, all women and girls were treated as queens and whatever they wished, would be done by their men.
The following recipe, is called, Persian Love Cake or as we say in Farsi: کیک عشق ایرانی and do you know why it is called that??well, In the legends from many antiquity, a young woman was in love with a Persian prince and she decided to make a cake with love and aromatic spices such as cardamom, nutmeg, rose water, orange juice, ….to his prince😍😎.
So, If you want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with exotic flavours cake, you are in right place. This is my Persian Love cake: It’s beautiful to look at and delicious to eat with a lemony flavour, floral scent of rose water, very moist texture and decorated with almond flakes and dried rose petals.
Once you learned how to make this cake, you will be making it again and again.
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Ingredients
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Preheat the oven at 175c degree.
Add melted butter, vegetable oil and sugar into a large bowl. Mix together until well combined and creamy.
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Then add eggs to the butter mixture and whisk it well.
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Next, add yogurt and rose water. Whisk it for 1 minute.
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Then add, cardamom, baking powder, pinch of salt, plain flour, almond flour and semolina and mix together very well and make sure there are no lumps in the cake batter.
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Grease sides of a cake tin, and cover the base of the tin with parchment paper. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and scatter over almond flakes. Place it into preheated oven and bake for about 45-50 minutes.
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Place it into preheated oven and bake for about 45-50 minutes.
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Meanwhile, prepare the syrup: add golden syrup or honey and lemon juice into a saucepan. Bring it too a boil. Then, reduce the heat and simmer the syrup for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and add some dried fruits to the syrup and set aside.
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Use a wooden skewer and Poke several small holes on the cake and pour syrup all over the cake.
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Sprinkle with dried rose petals. Allow to soak for 1-2 hour and them remove from the cake tin. Cut the cake and serve it as it it is or with ice cream or whipped cream, taste is just perfect.
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