Persian Love Cake Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Why is it called Persian love cake? ›

Once in Iran, the story becomes a legend stating that Persian love cake came about when a young Persian woman fell in love with a prince. To make him fall in love with her, she baked a cake infused with aromatic spices and rose water. To complicate matters further, many Iranians are not familiar with the cake.

Love cake is made from semolina, cashew nuts, pumpkin preserve, butter, eggs, sugar, and honey flavoured with rose water and a variety of spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamon, creating a fragrant, sweet, lightly spiced cake with a moist chewy inside and a crunchy exterior.

Overmixing the batter is the most common cause for your cake to sink in the middle. Be sure to mix just until smooth, and allow it to cool completely!

If there's simply too much flour and not enough butter, a cake will taste dry. On the other hand, if there's too much milk and not enough flour, a cake will taste too wet. Finding the right balance between wet and dry ingredients is key.

Cream bread, also known as “Grenade cake” in some cities like Mashhad, is the most popular of Iranian sweets. Pastry cream is used to fill puffed bread to create this delicious delicacy. This cream may occasionally be made with honey, coffee or even saffron. Whatever it is, you must like all varieties of cream bread.

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

For over 30 years, Hansen's Cakes in Los Angeles has been making cakes for the Kardashian-Jenner family — specifically their flower-topped basket weave cake. Recently, the cake gained viral fame when it was featured by TikToker @quinnhouses, whose birthday cake video quickly gained over 2.7 million views.

Queen Elizabeth cake is a lightly sweet, moist, and low-fat date cake, topped with a brown sugar, butter and broiled coconut mixture. "Queen Elizabeth cake" is named after the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II, and may have first been made in 1953 for her coronation.

If you don't want to or can't find semolina flour, you can omit it and just replace it with more almond flour at a 1:1 ratio. The semolina really adds a nice texture and another layer of complexity to this cake, so if you can keep it, I would.

If your cake was cooked to the proper temperature, chances are it is still edible even if it sunk in the center. Check that it's baked through the middle, then try a small piece of your cake. It might not taste good if the ingredient measurements were off. Notice the texture to make sure it's not too dense or spongy.

Can you Rebake a sunken cake? ›

You can't rebake a cake to fix it, but you might be able to save your cake if it's still in the oven. If you look through the oven window and the middle of the cake is sinking, give it some extra time before opening the door or removing the cake.

Oh yes, you sure can. This recipe has a combination of butter and oil to give off that nice buttery taste while keeping it soft and moist at the same time. Cake using pure butter tends to be more dense and dry compared to adding oil into the batter.

The most crucial tip? Instead of buying an entire box of cake flour, simply incorporate two tablespoons of cornstarch into 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour. This blocks the formation of gluten in the flour, which produces a lighter, fluffier cake.

If you mix incorrect measurements of sugar, butter, and eggs, the cake will become rubbery.

Sri Lankans winning hearts

The Sri Lankan story goes that love cake dates back to the 16th century when the Portuguese controlled the coastal areas of the country. The cake was created using elements of traditional Portuguese cakes like semolina, with local spices like nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.

The origin of Tunis cake seems uncertain. It was mass produced by McVities in the 1970s but it is thought the recipe dates back to Edwardian times. However, the reason for the name perhaps dates back a lot further to the days of Carthage's wars with the Roman Empire.

Asheghetam (عاشقتم) From the word eshgh “عشق” (love), it literally translates to: “I'm in love with you.” It's a much more intense expression of love used in both romantic and close platonic relationships alike!