Tiger Nut Cake

Sweet, nutty and steeped in history, tiger nuts - known as hab el aziz in Arabic - are edible tubers with a naturally sweet, coconut-like texture when ground into flour. Despite their name, they are not nuts at all. Depictions of tiger nut cakes appear as early as 1400 BCE in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings, where cakes made from ground tiger nuts, fats and sweeteners like dates or honey were shaped into cones as sacred offerings. Inspired by this culinary past, this recipe reimagine