Honey almond cake (basbussa)
Ingredients Lists
Cake
3 eggs
80g sugar
100g molten butter
100g almond powder
250g semolina
3 tbs orange blossom water
Syrup
300g honey
350ml water
50ml orange blossom water
Instructions
Cake
Put some water in a pan, and in a bowl (in metal preferrably), put the eggs and the sugar.
Put the water in the pan to a boil & then reduce the heat so it is steaming but not boiling.
Place the bowl over the water, and beat the eggs & sugar until it becomes really fluffy.
After that you can take the eggs off the stove, place everything in a stand mixer, and whisk at max speed for a few minutes (you can do it without the stand mixer but it'll take a long time).
Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
Pour in a cake pan and cook at 180°C for 40min.
Take it out of the oven, let it cool down a bit, and remove the cake from the mold, and place in deep-ish plate.
Syrup
Put the water & honey together in a sauce pan, and put to a simmer.
Let it simmer for 10-15min.
Add the orange blossom water & mix well.
Pour slowly the syrup over the cake. It is a very thirsty cake, it will easily abosrb the honey syrup.
If the cake is fully saturated in syrup and cannot absorb anymore, then it's perfect, and no need to add more syrup.
NB
You can replace the honey with sugar but it'll be less tasteful.
The cake mold I use can be found on Amazon & Temu if you desire make it look like a honeycomb as well.
If the egg beating is too complicated, one can replace all of this with 10g of chemical yeast (baking soda) & 125g of unsweetened yogurt.
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