Moist Semolina Date and Orange Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• 250 Grams Semolina

  Also called Rava or Suji or Sooji in India
• 230 Grams Butter
• 200 Grams Sugar
• 5 Eggs
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 10 millilitres Vanilla Essence
• 1 teaspoons Glycerine

  Optional
• 250 Grams Dates
• 100 Grams Orange Peel
• 50 Grams Sugar
• 100 millilitres Water

Instructions

• 1 Chop the orange peel (orange skin) into fine pieces.
• 2 In a small vessel, add the sugar and water and heat on high flame for 2 mins to
  form a sugar mel (syrup).
• 3 Next, add the chopped orange peel and mix on low flame for 3 mins.
• 4 Remove from stove, and allow the peel to soak in the sugar mel (syrup) and cool.
• 5 Break the seedless dates into small cm or inch sized pieces.
• 6 Coat the date pieces with a bit of the semolina so that they do not stick to
  each other. Set aside.
• 7 Beat the eggs to a froth. Then add the vanilla essence, butter, sugar, and
  glycerine (optional) and mix well.
• 8 Mix the semolina and baking powder. Add this to the batter and mix. Allow to
  rest for 1 hour.
• 9 Lastly, stir in the broken dates and orange peel.
• 10 Line two cake tins with butter paper. Fill with the cake batter and bake at 220
  degrees Celsius in a fanless oven (200 C in a fan oven) for 60 minutes.
• 11 Take a toothpick and poke it through the center of the cake. If the toothpick
  comes out clean, it's done. If it comes out with a bit of batter on top, leave
  it in there for another 10 to 15 minutes. Then test again to confirm it's done.
• 12 Cool and serve! But it tastes great warm too!

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