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How to make Sri Lankan love cake

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February 14, 2019
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Making my mother Sri Lankan Love cake has become a tradition.

I like to make it about this time of year, you know, love and Valentines and all that.

The recipe I bake yields a hefty portion. 

The Love cake is dense, it’s not designed to be wolfed down in a single session. It’s a cake to savour and relishes to cherish while sipping a cup of Sri Lankan tea.

The origins of Sri Lankan Love Cake

I have made so many Love cakes, yet it’s only now that I have started to dig deeper into the provenance of Love Cake.  

When you bite into a Sri Lankan Love cake, eat through centuries of culture, history and personal stories of migration. 

We Sri Lankans love our cakes. Sri Lankan cuisine has a repertoire of cake recipes: simple butter cake, love cake, bibikkan, breudher, coco de bolo, bolo folhado, ribbon cake and, of course, Sri Lankan Christmas cake. 

These are the most well-known, delve into the pages of Hilda Deutrom’s Ceylon Daily News Cookery Book, and you’ll discover more.

Love cake is beloved by Sri Lankans. 

Every family has their personal recipe. It’s the recipe that gets handed down through the generations from grandmothers, mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins. 

My Love cake recipe is a version of my mother’s. 

No one really knows the true heritage of Love cake. Some claim its origins are Dutch, while others claim it’s Portuguese. Love cake’s identity is rooted in the Sri Lankan Burgher community, descendants of Portuguese and Dutch rule.

If you take a closer look at the Love cake recipe you realise the ingredients give us a clue as to how Love cake came about – colonial Ceylon and the heady spice notes from cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg nod to the global movement of people and cultures.  

I tend to make this cake around Valentine’s day. Love cake is considered to be a celebration cake for birthdays and Christmas, cut into squares (or rectangles) and packaged into wrapping paper. 

Love cake has a very distinct texture. Bite through the cake’s thin crispy crust into the soft, moist, crumbly cake flavoured with citrus, rosewater and spices. 

The only way to experience Love cake is to make it.  Or find someone who will make it for you.

Sri Lankan love cake is seriously rich and seriously sweet. With seven eggs, half a kilo of sugar and jam-packed with cashew nuts, it is irresistible.

You can guarantee every family has their own recipe and you can bet everyone’s mother has the best recipe for love cake.

There are many recipes for love cake with many variations of ingredients from pumpkin preserve to strawberry jam. The main ingredients for love cake are cashew nuts, eggs, sugar and semolina. 

Sri Lankan love cake is easy to make

Love cake is easy to make. Essentially it’s a very dense traybake. Most recipes will ask you to separate the eggs. Add the egg yolks to the sugar and mix. Beat the egg whites to glossy peaks and mixed in at the end.

You can’t hurry love cake

I have found that cooking times do vary. Love cake can take from an hour to an hour and a half to bake. Love cake needs patience, you can’t hurry a love cake.

I place the cake on the middle shelf of the oven. You can cover the cake with foil to prevent the surface of the cake from over-baking. Remove the foil for the last twenty minutes of baking.

When your skewer comes out of your Love Cake clean, it’s done. Take it out of the oven, set it aside and let it cool.

ore says this cake was baked to win the hearts of your lover. And just like falling in love, this cake is deliciously intense.

Research credit: “Love Cake: Authenticity and the boundaries of ‘Eurasian’ in the hybrid kitchen by Michelle Barrett.

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How to make Sri Lankan love cake

  • Author: Tooting Mama
  • Prep Time: 40 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
  • Yield: 20 portions 1x
  • Category: Tea Time Treat
  • Cuisine: Sri Lankan
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Ingredients

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  • 7 egg yolks
  • 500g g soft brown sugar
  • 400 g raw cashew nuts
  • 250g semolina
  • 2 tbsp rosewater
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • Zest of a lemon (grated)
  • Zest of an orange (grated)
  • A nugget of preserved stem ginger, finely chopped
  • 4 cardamom pods (crush and seeds extracted)
  • 0.5 tsp nutmeg (finely grated )
  • 7 egg whites
  • butter (small knob for greasing the baking tin)
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 150 degrees.
  2. Take a 25 x 30cm cake tin, grease with butter, then double line with non-stick baking parchment allowing enough parchment to overhang over the edge of the baking tin.
  3. In a large mixing bowl beat the egg yolks and the sugar together until you have a deliciously creamy butterscotch looking concoction.
  4. In a food processor, pulverise the cashew nuts until they are crushed into small pieces.
  5. Take the nuts and the semolina, rose water, honey, lemon and orange zest, ginger and spices and stir into the egg and sugar mix. Mix well to make sure the ingredients are fully incorporated. It will be stiff almost the texture of biscuit dough. That’s fine, it will loosen up once you add the beaten egg whites.
  6. Take a second large mixing bowl and pour in your egg whites, using a stand mixer or handheld mixer,  and whip them until you have glossy stiff white peaks.
  7. Fold the egg whites into the cake mix before pouring gently into the double-lined cake tin.
  8. Place the cake tin onto the middle shelf of your pre-heated oven, and cook for around an hour to an hour and thirty minutes. Or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. The cake will be done when it is firm, yet springy to touch, and no wobble from any uncooked cake mix.
  9. Take the cake out of the oven and leave it to cool before cutting it into little square portions in the tin. Dust with a little icing sugar. Using the baking parchment gently lift the cake out of the tin before serving.
  10. Delicious when served with afternoon tea.

Notes

  • When done the cake will be firm to the touch, but with a light spring.
  • if you find that your cake is browning on top and not cooking all the way through try placing aluminium foil over the top. I cover my cake with foil for the first 45 minutes, then bake uncovered for the remaining 45 minutes.
  • I have adapted this recipe from the original which can be found in The Complete Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon.

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Recipe: Sri Lankan butternut squash curry, recipe from Rambutan cookbook
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My creative juices are feeling drained, and I’ve My creative juices are feeling drained, and I’ve sucking up the last dribbles from my creative well.

I did a shoot for two recipes I had created. 

I loved the recipes, hot spicy traditional Sri Lankan curries, kalupol chicken and a side of sambar. The flavours that had depth, the kind of flavours reach into you and touch your soul! 

But, I hated the pictures.

It was frustrating. 

Even though I had meticulous planned my shots, they just didn’t work.

It sometimes happens, especially when you feel sapped of your creativity. 

Creativity is a muscle that has to be exercised, and then there are times when it simply needs a rest.

I gave my brain a break from food photography, and embarked of a photo walk in the fascinating company of @step_hen_les_lie, a brilliant and insanely knowledgeable street photographer.

I needed to engage and see the world, in a different way.

With street photography, the shot comes you. If that sounds easy? Think again. 

Street photography tests your mental sharpness, your power of seeing the out of the ordinary. 

It’s a case of walking, waiting and watching, waiting for something unusual, out of place or something just plain old god damn bonkers to happen. 

And you need a truckload of patience, and be ready to catch that shot! 

Check out my photographs and let me what you think. 
#streetphotographylondon #londonphotographer #documentaryphoto #londonrestaurantphotographer #foodphotographerlondon #visualstorytelling #candidstreetphotography #streetphotomag #streetlifeworldwide #seedifferently #sonyalpha #sonyalphafemale #capturestreets
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Sohini creates inventive menus for her line of supper clubs inspired by her Kolkata heritage.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We met, in South London, in the Elephant and Castle.I’ve worked around the Elephant for almost twenty years. With jobs that took me down the Aylesbury Estate; I’ve seen tea dances in the Elephant & Castle shopping centre where I played ten pin bowling when I volunteered with a cub troupe from Peckham. This was at a time when the Elephant was a no-go for gentrification.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The ceviche, marinaded in tangy cheeksuckingly good leche de tigre, succulent beef hearts threaded on to skewers, fresh crispy deep fried squid, and I’m pretty sure we ate vegetables to. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I saw these in my local Sri Lankan grocers, and had to grab my phone and snatch picture!​​​​​​​​
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When I was a kid, we always made thin, French-styl When I was a kid, we always made thin, French-style crepes. And our topping was only ever lemon and sugar. 🍋​​​​​​​​
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The American fluffy pancakes were, well exotic. ​​​​​​​​
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We only ever saw them on American kids' shows. And they always seemed to have pancakes for breakfast. And they always covered them in syrup! I'd watch wide-eyed agog at these pile of delicious pile of pancakes.​​​​​​​​
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When I was a kid, pancakes were a once-a-year thing.​​​​​​​​
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The excitement and build-up was almost too much as we approached Pancake day, aka Shove Tuesday, gobbling up all the good stuff before we headed into Lent and abstinence before we crack open the Easter eggs. ​​​​​​​​
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Now, I can make whatever pancakes I like. And I like to make fluffy American ones. Perhaps it reminds me of those Saturday morning American kids' shows, and those hearty American breakfasts, served by all-American moms to their all-American families.​​​​​​​​
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There's something indulgent about a pile of fluffy buttermilk pancakes, ready and waiting, drenched with something delicious and to be devoured by a brood of hungry mouths. ​​​​​​​​
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What pancakes did you make this year? And more importantly, what was your topping? ​​​​​​​​
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February open theme #foodphotobiteswithritu @foodphotobiteswithritu @happytummybyritumbhara judge: @ferraronierica ​​​​​​​​
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American pancakes: Recipe @marthastewart, Food styling: Moi​​​​​​​​
Photography: Moi. Syrup: @lylesgoldensyrup​​​​​​​​
Inspiration: @louisehagger - an incredible food photographer with so much wit & creativity 🤩​​​​​​​​
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Making my mother Sri Lankan Love cake has become a Making my mother Sri Lankan Love cake has become a tradition. I like to make it about this time of year, you know, love and #Valentines and all that.​​​​​​​​
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The recipe I bake yields a hefty portion.  Love Cake is dense, it’s not designed to be wolfed down in a single session. It’s a cake to savour and relishes to cherish while sipping a cup of Sri Lankan tea.​​​​​​​​
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Having made it so often it's only now that I am digging into its provenance.  Sri Lankan Love Cake has an interesting backstory of colonialism, culture, and personal stories of migration.​​​​​​​​
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If you want to know more about the history of this delicious cake, hop to the Tooting Mama website, there’s a link in my bio. You’ll find the recipe there too. ​​​​​​​​
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Because, the only way to experience Love Cake is to make it. ​​​​​​​​
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Ranji Thangiah

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I'm Ranji! I am a food photographer, recipe creator, lover of Sri Lankan food which I want to share with you.

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