Ravani

Semolina Cake with syrup / Ravani

Ingredients

• 200 gr. sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 vanilla
• orange zest from 2 oranges
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 130 gr. all purpose flour
• 160 gr. fine semolina
• 110 gr. milk
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• Syrup
• 550 gr. water
• 440 gr. sugar
• A little lemon juice + orange peel
• 80 gr. butter

Directions

1. First we start with the syrup.
2. Boil all the Ingredients together for 5 minutes.
3. From the time it starts to boil 5 minutes.
4. Put all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and semolina) in a bowl and mix them.
5. Beat the sugar with the eggs with a hand mixer until the mixture is well foamed and puffy (about 4-5 minutes).
6. Add the vanilla and the zest from the oranges.
7. With the mixer running, alternately pour the solids with the milk into the mixture.
8. Pour into a well-buttered pan.
9. Bake in a well preheated oven, on the resistances on the lower rack, at 170 °C for about 45' (or in the air at 160 °C, on the middle rack of the oven for about 40') until the ravani puffs up, turns golden and the sides are not sticking to the pan.
10. Remove the ravani from the oven.
11. Slowly pour the cold syrup over the hot ravani and let it cool completely.
12. Better to cut the ravani the next day.