semolina cake
Coarse wheat sweet
Semolina cake is a dense, moist cake made from semolina flour rather than wheat flour, popular across the Middle East, Mediterranean, and South Asia.
The coarse grain gives it a distinctive texture—slightly grainy but tender.
Versions vary by region: soaked in sugar syrup, flavored with rose water or orange blossom, studded with almonds.
She brought basbousa, an Egyptian semolina cake, to the potluck.
- sugar syrupDissolved sweetener in water
- syrupThick sugar liquid
- simple syrupSugar dissolved in water
- almondEdible tree nut
- rosewaterPetal-infused aromatic liquid
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