This is a beautiful combination of orange-rosemary flavor blended in a cake prepared from semolina semolina flour. Rosemary gave a different touch to the sweetness of cake and just enhanced it’s flavor twice. I had never used rosemary in any sweet dish before and it was really a great experience of using it in this recipe.
My younger brother told me to bring something different on Rakshabandhan. Yes you heard me right this was the time when I baked this cake. I cut it into pieces and arranged them in a box like Mithai and take it to my mums house on that day. My family tasted it, but I didn’t revealed that it was cake. Their comments were like “it’s so different” my sister said “I just loved it”. Everyone keep on asking what is it ? Finally my brother guessed it right, he said sis is it a cake. Actually semolina gave it a different texture then normal cake bread. It was spongy, crumbly like if someone do not tell you that it’s a cake you may think it is a Mithai. It had absorbed the orange syrup perfectly and was very soft and shiny. I must say to try this delicious preparation as it’s an innovative way of using semolina instead of plain flour hence healthy also. This is my entry for alphabet “O” under baked category for BM#32 , ABC cooking series. So let’s start the recipe . Yum
Ingredients:
1/4 cup semolina
3/4 cup almond powder
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 cup yoghurt
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
2 teaspoon rosemary Fresh/dried
1/2 cup Melted butter
For Syrup:
1/2 cup orange rind
1 cup caster sugar
1 cup fresh orange juice
Method:
Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease and dust a 8 ” round or oval cake tin.
Sift semolina, almond meal, flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Combine yoghurt, orange juice , 1 teaspoon orange rind and chopped/ dried rosemary in it.
Orange cake
Beat the butter and sugar until creamy . Fold in the flour mixture.
Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. Sprinkle rosemary leaves on top of cake. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden and a toothpick inserted into centres comes out clean.
Orange cake
Set aside in the pan for 10 minutes to cool slightly.
For syrup:
Place the rind, caster sugar and orange juice in a saucepan over low heat. Cook with stirring for 2 minutes or until the sugar dissolves. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the mixture thickens slightly.
Syrup
Pour prepared syrup over the cake and serve .
Orange syrup cake
Serve-6. Baking time -30 minutes
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Looks like a exotic cake Sapna,would love to try
Nice Orange Cake..Lovely pics.. Thanks for step by step presentation.. Must try for me..
Such a delicious and tempting cake.
Lovely fragrant of rosemary into the orange scented cake. My sprigs of rosemary for the garden has a right reason to be plucked up.
This cake is very interesting ..love this citrusy fruit and the idea of using semolina. Great. .book marking .
This cake is very interesting ..love this citrusy fruit and the idea of using semolina. Great. .book marking .
wow thats a very flavorful combo and cake looks absolutely delicious 🙂
This cake is very interesting ..love this citrusy fruit and the idea of using semolina. Great. .book marking .
Loved the flavor!!! specially using orange rind for extra punch… superb post, sapana 🙂
Link it to my event!!!
looks real yumm
love the addition of rind which is so much extra flavor and taste!!!
Sowmya
Cake looks very yummy..
yummy and colourful cake…
looks yummy………
Such a gorgeous cake, highly irresistible.
This sounds so yummy Sapana.. Loved the use of rosemary.. Will try it soon 🙂
lovely!!! looking soft and yumm
cake looks moist and yummy..
Shree
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Ahh, I need to do thi soon.. All u guys are tempting me badly !
very well baked n looks so yummy vth nice colour…
Such a lovely colored flavorful cake. I love the texture the semolina imparts to the cake.
I've had rosemary ice cream before and it really lends a unique flavor to sweet dishes. cake looks so delightful
Delicious looking cake. With a scoop of Vanila Icecream it will be an exotic dessert.
Quite interesting! Never though of adding rosemary in cakes. It looks fabulous…
Very interesting cake and rosemary surely sounds new..I like the colour best!
Interesting cake.. Use of syrup on top made it look more attractive and so would be the taste too! 🙂
Super Sapana love it, thank you for linking it to the wrml event waiting for more delicious and mouth watering entries from you dear…
Never even thought of adding rosemary to cakes!Must be so flavorful!
Thanks for linking the recipe to my giveaway =)
Adding semolina is interesting….cake looks delicious.
Thakns to blogging I have heard about semolina cakes before! Else I too would be wondering what this is :)..its come out nice and its great that everyone like it!
very flavorful and interesting!
Delicious looking cake…very falvorful
Look exotic dessert and love this moist cake.
Best Gulab Jamun in India– melt-in-the-mouth dessert! which is very popular in northern parts of India. A wonderful gift to someone who is as sweet as Gulab Jamun.
You are giving me idea for the festive season. Yet another interesting recipe.