Best Persian Style Apple Cake Recipes

PERSIAN STYLE APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix eggs and sugar with a food processor until soft. Stir in the flour, the cornstarch and the baking powder to soft dough.
• Cover your square mold of 30 to 40 cm with baking paper and smear your dough.
• Bake 12 minutes at 180°C (heat and timing are basing it on convection oven).
• Mix the apples, with rosewater, sugar and raisins. Heat in the microwave until hot (it takes about 8-10 minutes). You can do it in a pan too.
• Mix the water with the starch well in a glass and add to the apples mix.
• Heat again until it thickens. And spread the apple mix on the baked dough.
• Prepare your chocolate frosting as indicated by the instructions and brush it on the apples mix.

PERSIAN LOVE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, combine oil and ghee together. Add the sugar and whisk it all together until creamy.
• Then add eggs, one at a time and whisk it very well.
• Next add the thick yogurt and whisk it all together into a fluffy mixture.
• Add rose water, ground cardamom and stir it in.
• Sift the almond flour, all purpose flour and semolina flour, one by one and lightly whisk it in.
• Sprinkle baking powder all over, add pinch salt and incorporate it very well into the mixture.
• Pour the cake batter into a greased 10 inch springform cake pan that has been lined with parchment paper in the bottom.
• Tap the bottom of the cake pan on the kitchen counter to even out the cake batter. Scatter the almond slices all over the cake batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 to 40 minutes until it is golden on the top and a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• While the cake is baking, prepare the syrup.
• Combine honey and orange juice and bring it to a boil.
• Lower the heat and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
• Then stir in the rose water and ground saffron into the syrup. Turn off the heat and add the pistachios.
• Using a thin wooden skewer or a sharp pointed kitchen knife/utensil poke fine holes all over the cake.
• Pour the warm syrup over the warm cake and let the syrup soak in for several hours or overnight.
• Decorate with fresh or dried edible rose petals and more slivered nuts. Serve with rose water cream if you like (see blog post).