BM # 51
Week : 2, Day 3
Theme :Baking
Theme of the week: Tea Cakes
Week 2 ,Day 3 and I have a cake which is made of semolina. This lends a wonderful texture to the cake. Some how this cake reminded me of the Basboussa which is a Turkish cake. A cake which tastes like Indian mithai.
The semolina cake is different than Basboussa in terms of taste, this does not taste like a mithai,but like a cake:))
The cake needs fresh home made cream, which is a rare thing in my house. We normally boil milk and it gets over right away. Rarely we have boiled milk in the frig. So for this cake planning was done and boiled milk was refrigerated so we could get cream. You can cut down on the sugar by a few teaspoons if you wish. This is a cake made by my daughter in law. I bet you guys are going to think, what am I upto, well I wanted to collect the best recipes from the family, so….
Sooji Cake
3 cups semolina
11/2 cups sugar
11/2 cups fresh cream
1 tsp baking powder
3 tsp curd
1/2 cup milk
Mix sugar and cream and beat till creamy.
Add milk and curd and mix well.
Add baking powder to semolina and mix well.
Add the dry ingredients to the liquid and mix well.
Pour into a greased , lined baking pan .
Bake at 180 deg C for about 30 minutes.
Never baked a cake with semolina and am seeing many cakes with it during this BM. Nice cake to serve with some tea.
I have baked semolina cakes before and know that the crust and the texture of the cake are droll worthy. 🙂
Family talent is all coming out in this mega marathon… Way to go.. The cake looks yummm…
What a moist and yummy looking semolina cake.
Seeing semolina in a big way in bakes now. Never tried it though. And nice effort from you to collect and collate the family recipes 🙂
Hi,I just tried making this cake.turned out really well.just added pinch of cardamom powder and condensed milk
I had tried basboussa but never tried baking cake with semolina. After all these semolina cake and bread posts I am tempted to try. Your daughter in law did a great job.
Semolina cake looks sooo moist and the crumb tempts me to grab a slice and have rite now.
The cake looks so much like a sponge cake, Vaishali!! Awesome!!
What can i replace fresh cream with?
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I haven't tried without cream but you could try using 1 cup butter and 1/2 cup curd. It should work.
This cake looks so very delicious. It looks like the one you get at Iyengar bakery. Thank you so much. I am making this today.
That's absolutely delicious .. I love tea cakes and bookmarking to try.. Like Sandhya the other day, u also used very fine sooji right ? And do tell me where did u pick up the black plates ;))
I have never tried semolina in baking. Bookmarking it to try. wonderful
I have never baked a cake with semolina and this looks so good. Lovely texture. Adding again to bookmarks
This cake is so delicious and tempting.
Lovely texture vaishali!!! cake looks absolutely droolicious!!!
Never tried semolina cake. The crust looks so good and I have to try this one…
Love the crusty semolina cake. I always like crusty cakes and this is just too perfect!
Vaishali, love this cake, it looks so moist and wonderful..will be bookmarking for sure!
What a beautiful crust you got on the cake Vaishali!! This recipe definitely a keeper one..Awesome!!
That looks fantastic Vaishali. Need to try it asap. I just love that colour of the cake…
Wow Vaishali this is a beautiful cake. I will try this its a keeper. Tell Sneha I said that.
Hello Vaishali,
I tried this receipe today and it came out very hard:( But I am sure that there was some mistake in my measurement.Would you please tell me what size of cup you are using for liquid as well as for dry ingredients?I saw your conversion page but am not clear.
Thanks in advance.
That looks drool worthy !! The texture is spot on and it's eggless, you are a genius.