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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 32 Minutes |
Ready In: 32 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Popular rustic cake in Turkey. Cake can be made 1 day ahead and kept, covered, at room temperature. Ingredients:
for cake |
1/2 c semolina flour |
1/2 c all-purpose flour |
11/3 c walnuts, chopped |
1/2 t salt |
1/2 c unsalted butter, softened |
2/3 c sugar |
2 t finely grated orange zest |
4 large eggs |
for syrup |
2/3 c water |
1/2 c sugar |
2t fresh orange juice |
1t honey |
2t fresh lemon juice |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Pulse flours, 1 cup walnuts, and salt in a food processor until nuts are finely chopped.
3. Beat together butter, sugar, and zest in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at time, beating well after each addition. Stil in nut flour and spread batter evenly in a butterd 8-inch square metal pan. Sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/3 cup walnuts.
4. Bake in middle of oven until golden and a tester comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Transfer pan to a rack.
5. Make syrup while cake bakes:
6. Simmer all syrup ingredients in a 1-quart saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved, 10 to 15 minutes, or until slightly thickened.
7. Evenly brush warm syrup over hot cake and cool completely in pan on rack. Cut into diamonds.
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