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Persian Love Cake


  • Author: Shambhavi
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 bundt cake 1x

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

  1. 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.
  2. Sift the all-purpose flour, almond flour, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk all of them together. Set aside.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Pour the batter into the inverted bundt cake pan. Bang it on the kitchen slab a few times down before continuing.
  7. Bake for around 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick into the center of the cake comes out clean.
  8. 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

  1. Whisk together the sifted powdered sugar with rose water and whole milk. The glaze will be thick.
  2. Pour the glaze over the cooled bundt cake. Let the excess slide off the sides of the cake. The glaze sets as it cools.
  3. Sprinkle on top with crushed pistachios and rose petals.
  4. 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