Valentine's Day Cake

Persian Love Cake

On the special occasion of Valentine's Day, we recommend a specific kind of beautiful traditional Oriental love cake for your loved one.

It is truly a romantic cake that is moist and aromatic with delicate sugar coated rose petals.

Hope, this "persian love cake" would made by heart, eat by heart and surly helpful to win the heart of your "sweetheart".

 

 
Ingredients:

3 Cups Almond Meal

1 Cup Raw Sugar

1 Cup Brown Sugar

120g Softened Butter

2 eggs, lightly beaten

250g Yogurt

1 Teaspoon Ground Cardamom

2 Teaspoon Rosewater

2 Teaspoons Dissolved Saffron

3 Tablespoons Slivered Almonds  3 Tablespoons Silvered Pistachios

  Procedure:

1. Preheat Oven to 180C.
2. Combine all dry ingredients.
3. Rub butter with fingertips until the mixture turns into crumbs.
4. Sprinkle half of the mixture into lined baking tin (I used 26cm) and press with the bake of a spoon.
5. Add eggs, yogurt, cardamon, rosewater and dissolved saffron to the rest of the mix and mix with a spoon until smooth.
6. Pour over the base.
7. Scatter slivered almond and pistachios over the cake.
8. Bake for roughly 20 minutes (until fully risen)
9. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for further 20 minutes (to stop over-browning it)
10. Cool in the tin.