honey and pistachio cake
The recent Jamie Does… series has thrown up some delicious recipes. This cornmeal cake, from his Athens trip, is light, fluffy and stuffed with gooey honey. If I had one criticism, there’s not quite enough honey. I’d up it to 150ml next time. The flavours are still there though, it’s great for sharing. It also lasts for days with no noticeable drying out. Result!
Honey and pistachio cake:
225g caster sugar
75g ground almonds
150g plain flour
200g semolina / cornmeal / fine polenta
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
Zest of 1 lemon
Zest of 1 orange
225g Greek yoghurt
5 eggs
200ml olive oil
150g pistachios
100ml honey
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 orange
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Combine the sugar, almonds, flour, cornmeal, baking powder in a bowl. Add the eggs, zest, yoghurt and oil and stir well until you have a thick, gloopy batter.
- Pour this into a lined baking dish or cake tin (it will be quite large), or drizzle with oil and dust with cornmeal as an alternative lining. Bake for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool for 1 hour.
- In a dry frying pan toast the pistachios, lightly crushing them with a wooden spoon. Pour in the honey and juices and get everything fluid. Pierce the top of the cake many times with a knife and pour the honey nut mixture all over. Serve in wedges with more Greek yoghurt and some sliced strawberries.
I’ve been meaning to make this, glad it tastes as good as it looks!
It is very nice, zesty and makes loads to share.
Thanks for the invite. I came up with a few ideas straight away, only to notice that Tana Ramsay and Lesley Waters had already made them on your PDF recipe sheets!.
I will keep the thinking cap on.
Gary
I made this cake yesterday. Absolutely SCRUMPTIOUS!!!!!!
Sure is! Must get round to making it again…
Thanks for the recipe! I caught Jamie doing this recipe when he was already halfway through, so I’m happy you’ve put it up here. I’ve made this cake several times and it always turns out amazing! I agree that the recipe doesn’t have enough honey – if done how the recipe says, the top is all moist while the bottom bit is drier; still good but I like cakes to be more moist. I double the honey and it turns out great.
You’re welcome. It’s a great cake.
If you use two oranges instead of one orange and one lemon it’s even better.
Would love the conversion for the weights in American measurements please.
Hi Joshua
I’m not an expert in converting measurements, the US system is just as baffling to me as mine are to you I’m sure 🙂 I always resort to the Internet when I need to convert. Here’s a few resources from Cooking.Stackexchange:
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/76/how-do-i-convert-between-the-various-measurements
to get this kind of cake
i saw it in fatafeat & i like it & get recet
in our country the name is Basbosah
1cup sugar. – 2 eggs-1 cup pouder milk
1cup coconut -2 cup cornmeal
1cup oil-1cup worm water- zafaran &1big spoon habheal – 1 glass cram cheese original kraft- with prepare syrup 2cup sugar & 1 cup water & juice leimon all cooked to be syrup
Thanks Huda.
I’m hoping that’s warm water not “worm” water 🙂
A local delicacy I’m sure!
Yummy!