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Dina's Kitchen

Lebanese Recipes

April 12, 2018

Sfouf – Semolina cake with Turmeric

This scrumptious semolina eggless cake will soon become your favourite! You will love this light, healthy and moderately sweet cake flavoured with turmeric and anise. The simple ingredients will generally be available in your pantry, and you can easily substitute the pine nuts with sliced almonds or even sesame.

Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl
In a separate bowl mix the milk and sugar. First add the oil and mix, then the milk mixture. That way you avoid a chemical reaction of turmeric where it might turn into more reddish than yellowish in the cake.
Gradually add the milk and whisk vigorously to get a smooth batter
The batter is not very thick
Grease the pan with Tahini
Pour in the batter
Garnish with pine nuts, almonds or sesame
Bake for about 25 minutes at 180°C/ 350°F
Enjoy the fluffiness and warm spices in an eggless, healthy cake!

Sfouf makes the perfect sweet for your afternoon tea or morning coffee. And if you are a language teacher like me, who likes to spoil her students every now and then, you will often surprise your students with it after a long teaching session.

On a side note, you can substitute milk with aniseed water in the recipe to make it vegan.

Sahtein!

dina bayoud kohl
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Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine Lebanese
Servings 20 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g fine semolina
  • 175 g all-purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoons turmeric
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground aniseed
  • 250 ml cold milk
  • 200 g sugar
  • 100 ml sunflower oil
  • 30 g pine nuts
  • 1 ¼ tablespoons tahini to grease the pan

Instructions
 

  • Grease base and sides of the pan with the tahini.
  • In a small mixing bowl combine the milk and sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved.
  • In another mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients. Pour in the oil first, and start mixing with a whisk. Almost simultaneously gradually add the milk-sugar mixture, and continue whisking until all ingredients are well combined and the batter is smooth.
  • Pour the batter into the greased pan and sprinkle all over with pine nuts.
  • Preheat oven (180°C, 350°F) and bake on lower second rack for about 25 minutes, until edges are a bit brownish. Insert a wooden tooth pick into the centre of the cake to check if the cake is ready. Remove from oven and let cool. Cut into 3 cm squares and store in an airtight container. Sfouf keeps well for up to one week, when stored in a cool place.

Notes

All images and text © Dina Bayoud Kohl for Dina’s Kitchen

Filed Under: General, Pastry & Sweets

Reader Interactions

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  1. Linda Waller says

    January 05, 2019 at 15:46

    Should I use plain or self raising flour please?

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    • Dina says

      January 06, 2019 at 9:18

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      • Dina says

        January 06, 2019 at 9:20

        I don’t think it matters. I, personally, work with plain flour unless a recipe mentions otherwise.

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        • Linda Waller says

          January 07, 2019 at 21:23

          Thank you.

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          • Dina says

            January 08, 2019 at 18:21

            I noticed that I hadn’t mentioned type of flour in the recipe. I corrected it to all-purpose flour 🙂

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