Nammoura Semolina Cake with Apples

Tender, moist cake topped with sliced apples, and a sugar syrup made from sweet, cardamom spiced pineapple juice.

Total Time:
1.5 hours

Servings:
8

Ingredients

3 cups DOLE® IQF Sliced Apples

3 Tbsp sugar

2 tsp cinnamon, ground

¼ tsp cardamom, ground

1 cup yogurt

½ cup milk

2 ea eggs

1 Tbsp honey

1 + ¾ cup sugar, divided

2 cups semolina flour

1 cup cake flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 Tbsp Tahini

½ cup sugar

DOLE 100% Pineapple Juice

2 ea cardamom pods

1 ea cinnamon stick

2 Tbsp orange blossom water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place apples flat on baking sheet and sprinkle with mixture of sugar, cinnamon and cardamom. Bake for 20 minutes until browned and soft. Remove from pan and cool.

In a mixing bowl combine yogurt, milk, eggs and honey until incorporated.
In a separate bowl combine sugar, semolina and cake flour with baking powder.
Add dry ingredients into wet stirring constantly.
Brush cake pan with tahini. Pour cake batter into pan and bake for 40 minutes or until completely baked.

While cake is baking, in a small sauce pan over medium heat add pineapple juice and sugar. Bring to a boil and add cardamom and cinnamon and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in orange blossom water.
Once cake is done baking, remove from oven and pour syrup over cake while hot.
Place apples on top of cake in a spiral pattern and allow to cool completely. Cut and serve.