Love Cake for Valentine

Love cake is a unique Sri Lankan recipe used for many occasions. This cake is a flourless cake and the main ingredient of this is semolina. Sri Lankan love cake is a super moist delicious cake that you must try….

Ingredients:

• Butter – 130g
• Semolina – 200g
• Sugar – 280g
• Cashew – 150g
• Egg Yolks – 06
• Egg Whites – 05
• Bee Honey – 02 tbsp
• Zest of 01 Lemon
• Cardamom – 03
• Nutmeg – ½
• Cinnamon
• Rose Water – 02 tbsp
• Vanilla – 01 tsp
• Pumpkin Preserve – 150g

Method:

• Roast cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg a bit and then grind them until you get a powder.
• Then roast semolina. It doesn’t need to roast them a lot. Just roast them until you get semolina smell. After roasting let it cool down.
• Roast cashew a bit and blend. Don’t blend them too much. There should be small cashew pieces in it.
• After that mix semolina with butter. After mixing, keep it aside around ½ an hour. In this time semolina will absorb butter and become soft.
• Beat egg whites until it forms soft peaks.
• Beat egg yolks and sugar together until it becomes creamy and pale in color.
• When egg yolks are creamy add vanilla into this.
• Add honey, ground spices, lemon zest and rose water.
• Then into this add roasted semolina with butter.
• Add chopped cashew and pumpkin preserve.
• Finally add egg whites and fold. Don’t overmix. Just fold the mixture.
• Then, transfer this batter into a baking tray and bake the cake around 50mins to 01hour under 160C in a pre-heated oven. After around 35mins of baking cover the cake with an aluminum foil. Then the top part of the cake will not get hard.
• This love cake is super moist and delicious. Hope you will try this out in this Valentine’s Day.