Roger Pizey

Turkish Tahini Cake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    12-14

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
World's Best Cakes: 250 great cakes from Raspberry Genoise to Chocolate Kugelhopf
World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

  • About

Tahini is a sesame seed paste used in many traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern recipes. You may well have cooked with it in a savoury dish, but here I’ve used it in a traditional sweet cake. The tahini gives a delicious nutty flavour, a little like peanut butter.

Ingredients

  • 250 g (9 oz) tahini
  • 200 g (7

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas mark 3, and grease and line a 23cm (9in) round cake tin with baking parchment.
  2. In a bowl, beat the tahini, gradually adding the sugar.
  3. Mix together the sifted bicarbonate of soda with the cognac and add to