Name: Casablanca Cakes
Yield: Makes 30
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: triple strength orange flower water (optional); finely grated rind of 1 lemon; 4 oz (100 g) semolina; 2 oz (50 g) ground almonds; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) baking powder; just over 4 oz (100 g) icing sugar; 1 large egg

Preparation info

Makes
30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Curries and Oriental Cookery

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1980

About

My children adore these Moroccan delights. They are half-cake, half-biscuit, and are extremely quick and easy to make. They are crunchy and gooey at the same time, with the flavour of almond, lemon and a hint of orange flower, water.

Ingredients

1 large egg
just over 4 oz (100 g) icing sugar

Africa
Morocco
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Whisk the egg with 4 oz (100 g) icing sugar until very pale. Stir in the baking powder, ground almonds, semolina and lemon rind and mix thoroughly together.

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