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Title: Syrian Halva Cake
Yield: 1

Ingredients

  --------------------------FOR THE CAKE--------------------------------
      1 c  raw sugar
      3 tb brown sugar
    250 g  soft butter
      1    an orange and a lemon; zest
           -of
      4 lg eggs; separated
      1 c  semolina
      1 c  wholemeal flour
      1 ts cinnamon
    1/2 ts ground cloves
      4 ts baking powder
    150 ml milk
    500 g  walnuts; coursely chopped
      3 tb ground almonds
    120 g  halva; (available from
      1    ; middle eastern
      1    ; stores)
 
  --------------------------FOR THE SYRUP-------------------------------
      1 c  sugar
      1 c  water
      1 tb orange flower water

Instructions

Weigh the halva and remove 20g. Crush this finely and coursely chop the
remainder.

Preheat the oven to 190c. and butter a non-stick fluted "kugelhopf" cake
tin,
sprinkling the finely ground halva over the greased cake tin. Tip the tin
to
coat evenly.

In a mixer, beat the raw sugar, brown sugar, butter and zests of lemon and
orange together until thick and pale. Add the egg yolks 1 at a time,
beating
well after each addition.

In a separate bowl, mix together the semolina, wholemeal flour, cinnamon,
ground cloves and baking powder. Add this flour mix to the butter batter,
alternating with the milk. Add the chopped walnuts, ground almonds and
chopped
halva and mix well. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form then fold
into
the cake batter gently. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and
bake
for 40-50 minutes until firm.

Meanwhile, boil the sugar and water for 5 minutes then add the orange
flower
water and set aside.

When the cake is removed from the oven, pour over the flower water syrup
and
allow to cool. Remove the cake from the tin carefully and serve, generously
sprinkled with icing sugar.

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 6223 Calories (kcal); 521g Total Fat; (71% calories from fat);
158g Protein; 308g Carbohydrate; 1316mg Cholesterol; 4345mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 4 1/2 Grain(Starch); 19 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0
Fruit; 93 Fat; 15 1/2 Other Carbohydrates

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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