Recipe: Rava Cake  Basbousa
Total time: 70 mins

Ingredients used in Rava Cake  Basbousa
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Saffron - 1/2 grams.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Milk - 1 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Egg - 1 numbers.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Butter (melted) - 110 grams.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Baking powder - 1 tea spoon.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Sugar - 3/4 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • All purpose flour - 1/2 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Desiccated coconut - 1+1/2 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Semolina (rava) - 1+1/4 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Almond essence - 3 drops.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Sugar for syrup - 1+1/2 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Water for syrup - 1+1/2 cup.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Lemon juice for syrup - 1/2 tea spoon.
                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                • Rose water - 1 tea spoon.

Method:
Take a bowl, add semolina (rava), desiccated coconut, all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, egg, milk with saffron, almond essence, mix this like a soft dough.
Put the dough into oven proof casserole then level it off, pre cut the top of the basbousa,
Bake them at 190 centigrade for 40 minutes till golden colour on top.

For Sugar syrup:

Heat a pan, add sugar, water, lemon juice cook it for 5 minutes and add rose water,
Pour the sugar syrup on the top of the basbousa and arrange the almonds on the diamond cut.
Put this in the oven for another 15 minutes then give cuts on earlier gashes.

DeliciousRava Cake Basbousa is now ready to serve.