Recipe of Homemade Persian  Love  Cake

Persian  Love  Cake.

You can cook Persian  Love  Cake using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Persian  Love  Cake

1. It's of Ingredients.
2. Prepare 2 cups of almond flour.
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of plain flour.
4. You need 1 cup of plain yogurt.
5. You need 2 of whole eggs.
6. Prepare 120 g of unsalted butter.
7. Prepare of Zest of lemon or lime.
8. You need 3/4 cup of white sugar.
9. You need 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
10. You need 1 tbsp of baking powder.
11. It's 1 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of nutmeg powder.
13. Prepare handful of flake almonds or silvered pistachios.
14. You need of Ingredients for syrup.
15. It's 1 of large orange juie.
16. It's 1/3 cup of honey.
17. You need 1 tsp of 0range blossom (Bahar narenj) or rosewater.

Persian  Love  Cake step by step

1. Ingredients.
2. Preheat the oven at 180C degree. Mix butter with brown and white sugar with an electric mixer. Then add two eggs and beat for a minute..
3. Add lemon zest and yogurt to the mixture and beat until all ingredients incorporated...
4. In a separate bowl, add almond flour and plain flour, nutmeg, baking powder and cardamom. Stir them. Pour dry ingredients into the above mentioned batter. Mix with electric mixer all together..
5. Grease sides of a cake tin, and cover the base of the tin with parchment paper. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and scatter over almond flakes or chopped pistachio..
6. Place it into preheated oven and bake for about 55-60 minutes. Insert a skewer or a knife into the cake, if comes out clean, it means cake is baked.Meanwhile, prepare the syrup a few minutes before the cake is ready: Add honey, orange juice and rose water or orange blossom to a saucepan. Bring it to a boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Set aside..
7. Place the cake on a tray. While the cake is hot, use a wooden skewer and Poke several small holes on the cake and pour warm syrup all over the cake. Allow to soak for an hour and them remove from the cake tin..
8. Cut the cake and serve it with Greek yogurt (yes that’s right with yogurt), taste is just perfect..
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