Made with delicious ingredients, including honey, fragrant ginger and rose water, the online grocer has pledged to donate all sales profits from the recipe ingredients of this tasty traditional Sri Lankan delicacy to Peace One Day.
If
you want to get involved & make your own Love Cake, you can use
the link above to order the ingredients directly from Ocado, and
follow the recipe and video instructions below. I'll be honest here,
I haven't had chance to try it out yet, but I'm planning to over the
weekend... Watch out for a future blog post to find out how I got
on! It looks a fairly simple process, and I love the idea of jelly babies in a cake!
Alfred
Prasad’s Sri Lankan ‘Love Cake’ Recipe
This
wonderfully simple cake is a Sri Lankan delicacy made with love at
birthdays or special occasions. A legacy from the Portuguese
rule in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the cake is a great combination of
dried fruit, nuts and spices.
Ingredients:
o 150g unsalted butter
o 150g unsalted butter
o 350g caster sugar
o 6
medium eggs
o 3
tablespoons honey
o 2
tablespoons rose water
o Grated
zest of 1 orange
o Grated
zest 1 lemon
o 1
teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
o 1
teaspoon ground cardamom
o 1
teaspoon ground cinnamon
o 200g
unsalted cashew nuts, chopped coarsely [optional]
o 250g coarse semolina
o 50g glacé cherries [can be replaced with wine gums or jelly
babies]
o 25g mixed peel
o 25g crystallized stem ginger
o Icing
sugar to dust
Method:
1. Preheat
the oven to 150˚C/300˚F and line a 25 x 30 cm (10 x 12 in) cake tin
with baking paper.
2. Dice
150g of unsalted butter and leave in a warm place to soften.
3. Once
soft, cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well.
5. Add
honey, rose water, zest, nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon. Use a spatula
to gently fold through
6. Next
fold through the cashew nuts, semolina, glacé cherries, mixed peel
and crystallized ginger until combined. Do not over mix.
7. Turn
into prepared tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour or until pale
golden on top. The cake comes out best in a slow-cook process and
should ideally feel chewy on top and moist in the middle.
8. Allow
the cake to cool in the tin for about 20 minutes.
9. Turn
out of the tin, and when completely cool dust with icing sugar.
Love cake is so delicious, as a Sri Lankan i had it made for my sons wedding cake. Everyone seemed to love it. I havent tried this particular recipe but i will certainly give it a try.
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