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Baseema is a hard-to-put-down traditional cake or dessert from the Sudan that features heightened flavors of coconut, yogurt, and lemon.
Baseema means scrumptious in Sudan. Baseema lives up to its name and doesn’t let you down. Although it’s easy to prepare, it tastes amazing. One of the highly regarded specialty sweets in Sudan and elsewhere is the pastry.
Coconut, cinnamon, vanilla, and yogurt combine to give baseema its distinctive flavor. To enhance the flavor, some varieties incorporate rose water.
One of those dishes that you can make quickly is the pastry. To ensure you get everything right, you must be vigilant.
Baseema
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 1 3/4 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Icing sugar
- 1/2 Cup Butter
- 1/4 cup oil
- 500 g Yoghurt /Curd
- 3/4 cup desiccated coconut
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- For the syrup :
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 Cup water
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Prepare the sugar syrup by mixing all the ingredients given under sugar syrup. Let it boil until the sugar melts. Set aside.
- Preheat the oven @ 180° C. Grease a cake tin.
- Beat together the eggs and icing sugar until pale and frothy. Add in butter, oil, yogurt and vanilla.
- Sieve the flour & baking powder. Gently fold this into the wet ingredients along with coconut. Pour this into the prepared tin.
- Bake for 35-40 min or until the inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Once the cake is out, immediately pour the syrup all over the cake. Slice it & enjoy!
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