Kibrisli cake

Name: Kibrisli cake
Yield: Serves 8-10
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons honey; 250 g golden caster sugar; 175 g golden granulated or caster sugar; just under 300 ml water; pinch of baking powder; ¼ level teaspoon salt; 5 large free-range eggs, separated; 150 ml water; 125 g ground almonds; 125 g semolina; 1 level tablespoon sesame seeds; butter for greasing; juice of 1 lemon; finely grated rind of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

This is my recreation of a cake made by Emin’s sister-in-law at their joint family home on the Bosphorus, Kibrisli Yalisi. I like it best served as a pudding with a bowl of soft fruit and some whole milk yogurt or crème fraîche.

Ingredients

5 large free-range eggs, separated
250 g golden caster sugar
finely grated rind of 1

Asia
Turkey
Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Lightly butter a deep 20 cm round cake tin (not one with a loose base) and line with a disc of greaseproof paper.

In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks, c