The Best Fig Semolina Cake
This crumbly Semolina Cake is perfectly moist with the addition of figs and yogurt. It is easy to make and needs only minimal decoration to turn into a show-stopping cake. You will not be able to stop at one slice of this cake.
So I got the baking bug recently and am carrying on with that by whipping up this awesome Semolina Cake with Figs. It was sooooooooo pretty that I just had to take it over to some friends for some tea and a catch-up.
Ok, OK, there miiiiiiiiiiight have been a teeeeeeeeeny little bit of showing off my cake skills. I seriously had to force myself to hand it over as I really could have eaten the whole thing. A big yes to tasty, moist yet crumbly Semolina Cake with yogurt.
All The Reasons To Love This Semolina Cake
- The semolina gives it that lively crumbly texture that is just so perfectly different.
- It has figs in it. Crumbly cake + figs = perfect cake.
- It is super easy to make, no mixing butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Nope, not in this cake.
- It keeps for a few days without becoming dry.
- You don’t really need syrup with this cake, the figs give it all the moisture you need.
- And this Semolina Cake needs MINIMAL DECORATION. Is that not just the best thing ever?
Seriously all you need to do is dust the top with some icing sugar and a few figs. Flowers purely optional but oh so pretty. My kind of cake.
How To Make Semolina Cake
- Step 1. Mix the dry ingredients together.
- Step 2. Mix the yoghurt and milk together.
- Step 3. Add the dry ingredients to the yoghurt mix followed by the melted butter and lemon juice.
- Step 4. Fold in the chopped figs and transfer the batter into the cake pan and bake
- Step 5. Let the Semolina cake cool for 10 minutes in the tin before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
How To Make Semolina Cake with Coconut
Simply add in a few tablespoons of grated coconut and some coconut extract.
How To Make Orange Semolina Cake
Head over to this Orange Semolina Cake Post for a variation.
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Fig and semolina cake
Ingredients
- 225 g (1 cup 2 tbsp) coarse ground semolina
- 200 g (1 cup) caster sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- Pinch of salt
- 250 g (1 cup) Greek yogurt
- 180 ml (0.75 cup) milk
- 180 ml (0.75 cup) melted butter, cooled
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 8 figs divided – 6 chopped up for the cake , 2 halved for decorating the cake
Instructions
- Semolina Cake
- Preheat oven to fan-assisted 160C / 180C / 350F / gas 4 and line and grease a 23cm / 9 inch cake tin.
- Mix semolina, sugar, baking powder, orange zest and salt in a bowl.
- Add the yogurt and milk in large bowl and mix until combined.
- Mix in dry ingredients, followed by the melted butter and lemon juice.
- Fold in the chopped figs and transfer the batter into the cake pan.
- Bake cake until golden brown and firm, 55–65 mins.
- Let the cake cool for 10 mins in the tin before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Dust the cake with icing sugar and decorate with some figs and flowers.
Notes
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