Hazelnut and Pomegranate Cake

  • Clock Icon Prep 20 mins Cooking 1 hour
  • Dinner Icon Serves 10-12

A moreish nutty cake with hints of rosewater, a great afternoon tea cake.

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Ingredients

  • 100g blanched hazelnuts
  • 125g soft butter, cut into cubes
  • 1 ¼ cups caster sugar
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • ⅓ cup natural yoghurt
  • 1 cup The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour

For the icing

  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon rosewater
  • 2 teaspoon boiling water
  • 1 fresh pomegranate

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 170°C/150°C fan-forced. Lightly spray a 22cm cake tin with oil and line with baking paper.

2

Grind hazelnuts into mixing bowl 5-8 sec/speed 7 or until they are coarse meal. Set aside.

3

Add the butter and sugar to mixing bowl and mix 1 min/speed 3 or until sugar incorporated and mixture light and creamy.

4

Add eggs and mix 1 min/speed 5. Add yoghurt and mix 20 sec/speed 3. Add flour and ground hazelnuts and mix 15 sec/speed 3.

5

Spoon into the prepared tin. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until risen and cooked when tested with a skewer.

6

Cool for 5 minutes in the tin and turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

7

Combine icing sugar, rosewater and boiling water in a bowl and stir until smooth.

8

Drizzle over cooled cake and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

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