Cake Yazdi: Step By Step Traditional Persian Cup Cake Recipe

Cake Yazdi is one of the most delicious traditional Iranian sweets. As the name of this cake suggests, its history goes back to the historical and scenic city of Yazd.

An Iranian cupcake whose main ingredients are white flour, yogurt, and baking powder. Soft texture, excellent taste, and low sweetness with the aroma of rose water, which is baked in the oven and decorated with sesame seeds or pistachios.

Nostalgic Memories of Cake Yazdi

Many of us remember cake yazdi with the memory of mistakenly eating its paper as a child, which seemed tastier than the cake itself.

We all know that the delicious taste of cake yazdi is doubled with tea, so don’t forget hot tea when serving!

The thickness of this Mini Persian cake is less than that of other cakes, and it has an eye-catching crack on it. Traditional Yazdi cake is the same as cupcakes or muffins.

It has a special, hearty, and unique taste despite the simple ingredients used in it.

Different types of Cake Yazdi:

Homemade cake yazdi, market cake, traditional cake, cupcakes, chocolate cake, saffron cake, etc. are among the things that can be mentioned.

The main ingredients of the existing types of this cake are the same, but with a slight change in this composition, we will have a new type of this cake.

for: 6 to 8 people

Preparation time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients for Cake Yazdi:

How to make Cake Yazdi?

Instruction:

1. To prepare the cake yazdi recipe, first pour the eggs together with sugar in a suitable bowl, then mix the ingredients with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes until their texture becomes elastic and their color is almost creamy.

2. After mixing the eggs and sugar well, add the liquid oil to the bowl and stir a little until the oil is uniform with the other ingredients. Next, we combine baking soda with yogurt separately.

3. Now add the mixture of yogurt and baking soda to the ingredients in the bowl and mix with a mixer for 1 minute until they are uniform with the other ingredients.

Next, add cardamom powder along with rose water and honey and mix them for 1 minute.

4. At this stage, we turn on the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius so that it heats up well; then we combine the flour with baking powder and sift it once.

Next, pour the mixture of flour and baking powder into the sieve again.

5. Now, we sift the flour and baking powder over the ingredients in the bowl and mix the ingredients slowly from one side with a spatula until the cake batter is completely uniform.

Next, for more convenience, we pour the cake batter into a disposable pastry bag.

6. Now, we put the special Persian cupcake capsules in the muffin mold. Next, pour the cake batter into the capsules. Note that because of the large puff of this cake, we have to fill the molds halfway.

7. At this stage, we place the muffin mold in the middle of the oven and let it cook for 10 to 15 minutes. When the cakes are puffed up, reduce the oven temperature to 180 degrees and allow another 10 to 15 minutes until the cakes are golden and cooked.

At the end, we remove the mold from the oven and let the cakes cool down; then we put them in the dish we want.

Traditional Significance and Serving

Baking this Saffron cake is connected with customs and rituals in Yazd, and serving it in most religious ceremonies, funerals, weddings, and Nowruz Eid, along with Persian tea, Nan Nokhodchi, Kolompeh, is an obligatory part of the reception.

Yazdi cakes are light and not too sweet. The cardamom and rosewater give it a distinctive Persian flavor. They are best served with hot tea or coffee.

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Tips and Tricks :

• The correct size of ingredients is very important for making Persian cupcakes. Carefully measure and prepare all the ingredients in advance. Then start making the cake batter.
• The eggs, milk, yogurt, and butter you use for this traditional Iranian dessert must be at room temperature. Take them out of the refrigerator after half an hour.
• Follow the order of mixing the ingredients. Mixing this order may cause your cake to harden.
• If you pour the cake ingredients directly into the mold, you must grease it, but try not to put too much oil around it because the cake absorbs this oil and lowers its quality.
• Before the cakes are cooled, do not stack them on top of each other because the heat in them will make the texture of the cake dough.
• Observe the baking time of the cake. If it stays in the oven for 20 minutes, do not open and close the oven door for 20 minutes because this will make the puff cake fall asleep.
• Try to pour the ingredients of this sweet into the mould immediately after preparing it and put it in the oven. The longer the time between preparation and placing in the oven, the less puffy your cake will be.
• Traditional Yazdi cake can be made in different ways, such as how to make chocolate cake and how to make two-color this sweet.
• Baghlava Yazdi and Ghotab are famous Yazd Sweets that are closely related to this delicious cake.
• You can use sesame and coconut powder or chocolate to decorate this sweet.
• By adding raisins, you can have raisin cake.
• You can make your Traditional Yazdi cake by adding cocoa powder.
• The flour used must be sifted several times to make it light.
• Cooking time is different in different ovens, and this should be taken into account.
• You can prepare these cakes by creating a manual oven with a pot on the gas.
• The use of honey makes this cake more colourful
• If you use yogurt, you should use thick yogurt.
• Suppose you see that the edges of the cakes are puffed and baked, but the middle of them is not puffed. In that case, it is because the cake batter has waited a long time to go into the oven after being prepared (it should be immediately after adding the ingredients and mixing). Pour the batter into the mould and put it in the oven.
• Adjust the temperature to 20 degrees lower for electric ovens and toasters.
• If you can’t put all the molds in the oven together, cover the rest of the ingredients and leave them at room temperature. Fill the first mold that you took out of the oven with the remaining ingredients and put it in the oven.
• The oven temperature should be just below.
• To achieve this sweet with cracks, be sure to follow the two-step baking process: first, high temperature and then low temperature.

FAQ :

1. What is the reason for cake yazdi not puffing?

Opening the oven door before baking, setting the wrong temperature for baking, and having too much oil in the cake yazdi batter are all possible causes.

2. Can we cook cake yazdi without eggs?

Yes, use lukewarm water instead of eggs, and add 2 spoons of honey to the mixture.

3. How many calories are in each piece of cake Yazdi?

On average, each cake yazdi with an approximate weight of 58 grams has about 203 calories.

4. What is the best way to store Yazdi cake?

One of the best ways is to store this Persian dessert in closed containers at room temperature. Also, you should not put hot cakes in the container immediately or stack them on top of each other, this will make the cakes soft and doughy.

5. How do you reach the cracked top of Yazdi cake?

To achieve a cracked Yazdi cake top, start with a high temperature and then reduce it to a lower temperature. This temperature contrast contributes to a cracked surface during baking.

Conclusion

Yazdi cake is a very delicious Iranian cupcake with very little taste and sweetness. This very famous Yazdi sweet is used a lot in Iranian religious and family ceremonies and celebrations.

A delicious evening meal that is served with tea or coffee and has a recipe of medium difficulty and very important tips.

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