My mum has a rolled up notepad of recipes that she no longer cooks, but were her signature dishes that everyone adored. Before theses recipes are lost, I thought I would share these with you. As I test them out, I’ll post up the finished product and steps along the way.
Cake ingredients
1 cup oil
1 cup self raising flour
5 eggs
2 cups coconut
vanilla essence
rose water
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
Syrup ingredients
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
rose water
lemon juice
Directions
Syrup
- Place the syrup ingredients in a saucepan.
- On a low heat, stir until the syrup forms.
- Allow to cool and then start on the cake.
Cake
- Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the wet ingredients.
- Place in a round tin.
- Bake in a moderate oven.
- Check after 20 minutes.
- Bake until golden.
- Pour the cold syrup over the warm cake slowly.
- Spread the syrup over the cake and watch it glisten.
