Best 3 Rosewater Cake Recipes

APRICOT ALMOND CAKE WITH ROSEWATER AND CARDAMOM

Steps:

• Put the dried apricots into a small saucepan, cover them with the cold water, and drop in the cracked cardamom pods with their fragrant seeds. Put on the heat, then bring to the boil and let it bubble for 10 minutes--don't stray too far away from the pan, as by the end of the 10 minutes the pan will be just about out of water and you want to make sure it doesn't actually run dry as the apricots will absorb more water as they cool.
• Take the pan off the heat, place on a cold, heatproof surface and let the apricots cool. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/gas mark 4/350 degrees F. Grease the sides of your springform cake tin and line the bottom with baking parchment.
• Remove 5 of the dried apricots and tear each in half, then set aside for the time being. Discard the cardamom husks, leaving the seeds in the pan.
• Pour and scrape out the sticky contents of the pan into the bowl of a food processor. Add the almond meal, polenta, baking powder, superfine sugar and eggs, and give a good long blitz to combine.
• Open the top of the processor, scrape down the batter, add 2 teaspoons of lemon juice and the rosewater, and blitz again, then scrape into the prepared tin and smooth with a spatula. Arrange the apricot halves around the circumference of the tin.
• Bake for 40 minutes, though if the cake is browning up a lot before it's actually ready, you may want to cover loosely with foil at the 30-minute mark. When it's ready, the cake will be coming away from the edges of the tin, the top will feel firm, and a cake tester will come out with just one or two damp crumbs on it.
• Remove the cake to a wire rack. If you're using apricot jam to decorate, you may want to warm it a little first so that it's easier to spread; rose petal jam is so lusciously soft-set, it shouldn't need any help. Stir a teaspoon of lemon juice into the jam and brush over the top of the cake, then sprinkle with the chopped pistachios and leave the cake to cool in its tin before unspringing and removing to a plate.

ROSEWATER ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake:
• Preheat the oven to 300°F. Sift the flour 3 times onto a sheet of wax paper. Sift together the sifted flour and 2/3 cup of the sugar onto another sheet of wax paper. In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat the egg whites until they are frothy, add the salt and the cream of tartar, and beat the mixture until it barely forms soft peaks. Beat in the remaining 1 cup of sugar, a little at a time, the rosewater, and the vanilla and beat the mixture until it holds soft peaks. Sift one fourth of the flour mixture over the whites, fold it gently but thoroughly, and sift and fold in the remaining flour mixture in the same manner. Spoon the batter into a very clean, ungreased tube pan, 10 by 8 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches, preferably with a removable bottom, smoothing the top, and rap the pan on a hard surface twice to remove any air bubbles. Bake the cake in the middle of the oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until it is springy to the touch and a tester comes out clean. If the pan has feet invert it over a work surface; otherwise invert it over the neck of a bottle. Let the cake cool for at least 2 hours or overnight. Run a thin knife in a sawing motion around the edge of the pan and the tube to loosen the cake from the pan and invert the cake onto a cake plate.
• Make the glaze:
• In a small bowl stir together with a fork the confectioner's sugar, the lemon juice, and the grenadine syrup until the mixture is smooth.
• Pour the glaze over the cake, let the cake stand for 10 minutes, or until the glaze is set, and garnish it with the raspberries and the mint.

ROSEWATER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 and grease 2 7-inch cake pans or whatever size you would like. This cake can also be made into layers as I did in the photo.
• In a medium bowl, sift together all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In another medium bowl, whisk together milk, egg whites, vanilla extract, and rose water.
• Place butter and sugar in a large bowl. Using a stand mixer or electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light colored and fluffy. Scrape the bottom and sides of the pan while you go to make sure it is well mixed. This will take around 5 minutes.
• After creaming the butter and sugar, add about 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Mix well. Next add 1/2 of the wet ingredients. Repeat until you finish with the last addition of dry ingredients.
• Pour the batter into your greased cake pan(s) and bake for 15-20 minutes. I baked two 7-inch layers and I baked them for about 12 minutes, oven time may vary a bit depending on your oven.
• Cool cake completely on a wire rack before icing.
• To make the icing: in a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over cold water to bloom and let sit 5 minutes. Add hot water and stir to melt the gelatin. In the meantime, whip your cream to medium peaks and pour in gelatin mixture. Whip to medium-stiff peaks.
• Ice your cake and enjoy!