Inner Spice Featured Recipe – Bay Leaf, Coriander Seed and Lemon Semolina Cake
Bay Leaf, Coriander Seed & Lemon Semolina Cake
We love partnering with foodies to bring you new and exciting recipes to try. Our new dessert recipe is courtesy of Rutchi from Inner Spice. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 250 grams fine semolina
- 170 grams almond meal
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1 lemon - zested and juiced
- 1 tsp coriander seeds - lightly roasted
- 4 fresh Mediterannian bay leaves
- 225 ml olive oil
- 250 grams honey
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 4 eggs - lightly beaten
Honey Lemon Glaze
- ½ lemon - thinly sliced
- ½ tsp coriander seeds
- honey
Instructions
- Grease and line a cake baking tin and preheat oven to 170C
- Coarsely grind the roasted coriander seeds and 2 of the bay leaves
- Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl. with the spices
- Combine all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl
- Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
- Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for 45-60 minutes - checking on it intermittently
- In the meantime, prepare the glaze by warming a small fry pan, adding a good drizzle of honey (enough for the lemon slices to sit in), the lemon slices, remaining bay leaves and ½ tsp coriander seeds. Allow to warm though and bubble. Keep warm until ready to pour on room temperature cake.
- Once cake is baked through, add the glazed lemon slices and pour over the warm honey drizzle.
