Description
This persian love cake recipe is made with almond flour, rose water and ground cardamom. Honestly, it’s the most tender middle eastern cake topped with a beautifully scented vanilla rose glaze and garnished with ground pistachios and dried rose petals.
Ingredients
Scale
Bundt Cake
- 227g (1 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 400g (2 cups) granulated sugar
- 4 large brown eggs, at room temperature
- (6 tablespoons) vegetable or canola oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest
- 60ml (¼ cup) rose water
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 375g (3 cups) all-purpose flour
- 112g (1 cup) super fine almond flour
- 4 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 1¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Vanilla Rose Glaze
- 184g (1½ cup) powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon rose water
- 1½ tablespoon whole milk, at room temperature
- 40g (¼) chopped or crushed pistachios
- 2 tablespoons rose petals
Instructions
Bundt Cake
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Grease a 10-15 cup bundt cake pan with nonstick spray. Make sure you don’t have pools of spray gathered at the bottom. Set aside.
- Sift the all-purpose flour, almond flour, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk all of them together. Set aside.
- In another bowl, beat the butter for about 2 minutes until smooth and creamy. Add in the granulated sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs one at a time and mix until combined. Stir in the oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, rose water and vanilla. Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Stir in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients one half at a time and mix thoroughly. Repeat until everything is combined. The batter will be thick. Don’t overmix, it’s okay if a few streaks of flour remain.
- Pour the batter into the inverted bundt cake pan. Bang it on the kitchen slab a few times down before continuing.
- Bake for around 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool for 10 minutes inverting it on a wire rack. If the cake doesn’t demould, allow it to sit for another 5 minutes and try again. Never let it sit for any more than 15 minutes.
Vanilla Rose Glaze
- Whisk together the sifted powdered sugar with rose water and whole milk. The glaze will be thick.
- Pour the glaze over the cooled bundt cake. Let the excess slide off the sides of the cake. The glaze sets as it cools.
- Sprinkle on top with crushed pistachios and rose petals.
- Store bundt cake in an airtight container at room temperature for upto 7 days.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Persian, Indian, Bundt, Festive
- Cuisine: Indian, Persian
Keywords: Persian love bundt cake, persian love cake, diwali baking recipes, festive baking recipes, lemon bundt cake, rose cardamom cake, rose flavored pistachio cake