Semolina Cake
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If you like sugar and something very sweet, you will love this cake. A sugar syrup is poured and poured and poured on this cake. The cake is soaked with the syrup to give it that very moist look. Arabs do love this cake and it is called harissa in Arabic.
Ingredients:
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Directions:
Syrup: 2 1/4 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups of water, juice of 1 lemon
Directions:
Over a medium heat, dissolve the sugar in 1 1/2 cups water, add the lemon juice and bring to boil. Reduce heat and gently boil the syrup for 10 minutes.
- Place the butter and sugar in a bowl and cream together and then beat in the eggs. Stir in 1/2 cup of water.
- Sift together the semolina, baking powder and soda and stir into the butter mixture to form a smooth batter. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lightly grease a 8 x 12 inch cake pan and pour the batter in slowly and spread it evenly with the back of a spoon. Score across the top of the cake parallel lines going from the bottom left corner to the top right and vice versa, to form diagonal shapes.
- Place an almond in the center of each diamond. Bake the cake in a preheated oven for 35-40 minutes until the cake is light brown.
- Prepare the syrup as describe below and pour it spoonfuls at a time over the hot cake.
- Stop when the cake will not absorb any more and set the cake aside to cool before serving.
Syrup: 2 1/4 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups of water, juice of 1 lemon
Directions:
Over a medium heat, dissolve the sugar in 1 1/2 cups water, add the lemon juice and bring to boil. Reduce heat and gently boil the syrup for 10 minutes.
