Islak kek is a delicious Turkish cake, we would call it a Wet Cake because the whole cake is topped and it is very moist. Islak kek is one of those cakes that my family members would like to eat every day. I like it cold, from the fridge, and my children reheat it in the microwave in winter days. Its preparation is simple and quick and with just a few ingredients you get a first-class cake.

INGREDIENTS FOR BISCUIT : 

250 g of flour

250 g of sugar

4 spoons of cocoa for cakes (spoonful)

Peel of one orange

1 package of vanilla sugar

1 package of baking powder

4 eggs

250 ml of oil

300 ml of milk

Butter for coating the baking tray

TOPPING INGREDIENTS :

500 ml of milk

100 ml of oil

280 g of sugar

4 spoons of cocoa for cakes (spoonful)

FOR DECORATION :

pistachios and raspberries (not obligatory)

PREPARATION :

1 . heat the oven at 180 degrees…

2 . butter the baking tray…

3 . put the eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar and orange peel into a bowl and mix everything well…

4 . add oil and milk and mix everything shortly…

5 . stir all the dry ingredients, mix them, and add them into the egg mixture…

6 . mix everything shortly to enable all the ingredients to get homogenous…

7 . pour the biscuit into the buttered baking tray (30×27) ant put it into the preheated oven and bake for ca. 30 minutes…

LEAVE THE CAKE FOR 3–4 MINUTES WHILE YOU ARE PREPARING THE TOPPING …

8 . put all the topping ingredients into a smaller pot and heat them till boiling ( do not let the topping boil ) …

9 . cut the hot cake into cubes of desired size and stick each cube with a fork …

10 . pour the topping evenly over the hot cake …

11 . leave the cake at room temperature for at least 4 hours to let it absorb all the topping …

12 . if wished, you can decorate your cake with pistachios and raspberries …

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I have always had problems with how to cut a biscuit base three times to get four nice and equal pieces of biscuit for the cake. I would get three pieces and the fourth one used to be too thin or too thick here and there.

I would like to share these two biscuits with you, which are perfect for those who need four biscuit pieces for their cake.

Preparation for these two biscuits is completely the same, but the proportion of the ingredients is changed because cocoa is heavy and the biscuit cannot rise as it should.

INGREDIENTS FOR THE YELLOW BISCUIT: 

7 eggs ( M )

200 g of sugar

A pinch of salt

300 g of strong flour

2 spoons of warm water

2 spoons of oil

½ baking powder

INGREDIENTS FOR THE DARK BISCUIT :

9 eggs ( M )

250 g of sugar

A pinch of salt

300 g of strong flour

50 g of Cocoa ( black for cakes )

3 spoons of warm water

3 spoons of oil

½ baking powder

PREPARATION :

1 . cover the bottom of the baking tin (26cm) with parchment paper and coat the edges with butter…

2 . separate the egg whites and yolks…

3 . put the egg whites and salt into a bowl and mix shortly till the egg whites get foamy …

4 . add the sugar gradually and beat everything into firm snow…

5 . while mixing add one by one yolk and beat everything…

6 . pour water and oil lightly while mixing constantly …

( IF YOU ARE MAKING A DARK BISCUIT, YOU HAVE TO SIFT THE COCOA )

7 . mix all the dry ingredients, reduce the mixing speed to the lowest and add the dry ingredients slowly with a spoon …

8 . mix the ingredients shortly and then stir with light circular movements using a spatula, so that the mixture does not settle …

9 . pour the biscuit into the prepared tin, even it and put it into the oven preheated to 180 degrees for ca. 40 – 45 minutes …

10 . put the baked biscuit out of the oven and leave in the tin for ca. 10 minutes …

11 . take the biscuit out of the tin in and let it cool down completely …

NOTES AND ADVICE :

1 . You can add vanilla sugar, lemon or orange peel, rum sugar, walnuts, roasted hazelnuts, etc. …

2 . It is obligatory to use the size of the egg M, if you use bigger eggs like L, then you have to put one egg fewer.

3 . If you bake your biscuit in a ring and not in a tin, make sure that the tin is suitable for baking, otherwise, the middle will go down.

4 . It is always better to bake your biscuit a day earlier, cool it down, wrap it into transparent foil and put it in the fridge overnight and cut it the following day and make the cake.

5 . You can sprinkle the biscuit with juice, chocolate milk, coconut milk, almond milk, warm water where you have added a squeeze of half lemon and two spoons of jam, etc …

6 . Everything in the recipe has their reasons, why the egg whites should be whisked well, why water and oil are added softly and why dry ingredients are lightly stirred into the mixture. So, follow the stated instructions, otherwise, the biscuit could be lower than expected.

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We all know that people eat well in Turkey, there is plenty of food in the house full of family members and friends.

Breakfast and tea are never skipped, their breakfast is very rich, they start the day with various dishes. The table is full of different, cooked food like this Menemen for example, which is often found on their breakfast table.

INGREDIENTS :

10 eggs

5 tomatoes

3 bell peppers or 5 green peppers ( mild )

1 onion ( large )

200 g sujuk

30 ml of oil

1 teaspoon of mint ( spice )

½ teaspoon of time ( spice )

1 or ½ chilli pepper ( depending on how hot you like )

Salt ( to your taste )

Pepper

PROCEDURE :

1 . wash and clean the bell peppers and tomato and cut them all on tiny cubes 1x1cm…

2 . peel the onion and cut it on tiny cubes…

3 . wash the chilli peppers, deseed them and cut them as tiny as possible …

4 . peel the sujuk , halve it and cut it as wished …

5 . whisker the eggs …

6 . put the onion on the hot oil and fry it for ca. 4 minutes…

7 . then add the sujuk and continue frying till the onion gets golden …

8 . add the bell peppers and continue stewing for 4 – 5 minutes …

9 . then add the tomatoes and all the spices and continue frying for ca. 7 – 8 minutes …

10 . add the eggs and fry them with constant stirring till they are done …

NOTES AND ADVICE :

1 . You can serve Menemen with some bread, sour cream, olives, feta cheese, etc.…

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so get up 15 minutes earlier to prepare healthy, quick and delicious breakfast.

INGREDIENTS :

175 g of cereal

60 g of nuts ( chopped ) + a few whole cores

A pinch of salt

1 tea spoon of cinnamon

600 ml of milk

200 ml of water

60 – 70 g of honey

Agave syrup ( if wished for additional sweetening )

2 oranges

Frozen raspberries

PROCEDURE :

1 . Put all the ingredients into a pot except the fruit, agave syrup and whole nut cores …

2 . put the pot on the oven and let it boil …

3 . stir as often as possible until it boils and cook for just 1 minute …

4 . divide your breakfast into four portions …

5 . peel the oranges, cut them and divide in four portions …

6 . put the whole nut cores, oranges and raspberries on each portion …

NOTE AND ADVICE :

1 . When you add raspberries into the hot porridge, stir everything well to let the raspberries melt.

2 . Honey is added after the porridge has been cooked, so that all the vitamins can be preserved.

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