Orange pistachio cake with rose water | easy cake recipe

This post is also available german/deutsch.The nice thing about the otherwise rather flat winter is that the super delicious citrus fruits can be bought everywhere. Ranging from lemons to oranges, blood oranges and clementines and many more.
Today we want to introduce you to a moist orange pistachio cake, we used juicy oranges from Sicily.
The cake goes really well with a well-made coffee and of course with a glass of fresh mint tea or chai latte.
Just give it a try, you will see it is a blast!

Easy cake recipe

The cake is easy to make and so quickly. First, mix the eggs, spices and sugar until frothy. The hand mixer is sufficient here. Then briefly add the butter and then add the dry ingredients, orange juice and rose water. Mix until everything is soft, but don´t overmix the dough. Pour in the spring pan, sprinkle with almonds and bake! So easy!

More delicious Orange recipes!

• Orange Easter Bread. (vegan)
• Orange almond cake | moist & easy cake recipe
• Orange Poppy Seed Pancakes (vegan)
• Mini bundt cakes with oranges, chocolate drops & cinnamon

ORANGE PISTACHIO CAKE WITH ROSE WATER

2 eggs
70 g of sugar
125 g soft butter
Zest of 2 organic oranges
5 cardamom capsules, grounded
60 ml rose water
100 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
100 g of flour
100 g soft wheat semolina
1 tbsp baking powder
35 g ground pistachios
1 handful of sliced almonds
syrup
150 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
80 g of sugar

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Grease a 20 cm springform pan and sprinkle with a some semolina. Mix the flour, semolina, baking powder and pistachios.
Beat the eggs, sugar, orange zest and cardamom until fluffy in a mixing bowl.
Then add the butter. Now stir in the flour mixture, rose water and orange juice.
Pour the mixture into the mold, sprinkle with almond leaves and bake for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile prepare the syrup.
Bring the juice to the boil with the sugar and let it boil for 15 minutes. Put aside.
Take the finished cake out of the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes. Pour the syrup evenly over the top, let it soak in and then remove the cake from the mold.
Let it cool down and let it sit overnight.

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Orange pistachio cake with rosewater

This orange pistachio cake with rose water is super juicy and tastes of the Orient. With ground cardamom and soft wheat semolina.

Course Cake

Cuisine Dessert

Keyword baking, Orange

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 1 cake

Author Klaraslife

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 70 g of sugar
• 125 g soft butter
• Zest of 2 organic oranges
• 5 cardamom capsules grounded
• 60 ml rose water
• 100 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
• 100 g of flour
• 100 g soft wheat semolina
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 35 g ground pistachios
• 1 handful of sliced almonds

syrup

• 150 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
• 80 g of sugar

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Grease a 20 cm springform pan and sprinkle with a some semolina. Mix the flour, semolina, baking powder and pistachios.
• Beat the eggs, sugar, orange zest and cardamom until fluffy in a mixing bowl.
• Then add the butter. Now stir in the flour mixture, rose water and orange juice.
• Pour the mixture into the mold, sprinkle with almond leaves and bake for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare the syrup.
• Bring the juice to the boil with the sugar and let it boil for 15 minutes. Put aside.
• Take the finished cake out of the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes. Pour the syrup evenly over the top, let it soak in and then remove the cake from the mold.
• Let it cool down and let it sit overnight.

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