Kitchen
Orange Semolina Cake
Samar Maatouk
3-September-2020
Ingredients
1 cup of semolina flour
1 cup of flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
Pinch of salt
100 ml of orange juice
2 oranges zests
½ teaspoon of vanilla
200g of butter
1 ¼ cup of sugar
3 eggs
The sauce
100 ml of orange juice
100g of sugar
¾ cup of Greek yogurt
1 tablespoon of ground pistachios
How to prepare
Mix semolina flour with flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Mix orange juice with orange zest and vanilla. Set aside.
Whisk butter and sugar well, then add the eggs while whisking until the mixture becomes homogeneous.
Add flour mixture and orange mixture together then beat them well.
Pour the mixture on a tray with parchment paper then place it in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes.
To prepare the sauce, mix orange juice and sugar in a bowl on the stove, wait until the sugar dissolves completely. Leave it on low heat until it thickens a bit then remove from it and wait until it cools down.
When the cake cools down, pierce it with a fork and pour half the sauce over it.
Spread yogurt on the cake then sprinkle with pistachios.
Serve the cake with the rest of the sauce.