Rava Cake, popularly known as Basbousa are small cakes made of semolina soaked in simple syrup. Sometimes coconut added and flavoured with either orange flower water or rose water. These are perfect with coffee or tea.http://www.vahrehvah.com/rava-cake-basbousaIngredients:Semolina (rava) 1 ¼ cupDesiccated coconut 1 ½ cup All purpose flour ½ cupSugar ¾ cupBaking powder 1 tsButter (melted) 110 gEgg 1 nMilk 1 cupSaffron ½ gAlmond essence 3 dropsSugar for syrup 1 ½ cupWater for syrup 1 ½ cupLemon juice for syrup ½ tsRose water 1 ts Directions: Take a bowl add semolina (rava), desiccated coconut, all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, egg, milk with saffron, almond essence, mix this like a soft dough, put the dough into oven proof casserole then level it off, pre cut the top of the basbousa, bake them at 190 c for 40 minutes till golden colour on top.Sugar syrup:Heat a pan add sugar, water, lemon juice cook it for 5 minutes and add rose water,Pour the sugar syrup on the top of the basbousa and arrange the almonds on the diamond cut, put this in the oven another 15 minutes. http://www.vahrehvah.com/Rava+Cake++Basbousa:8302you can find detailed recipes at my website and also find many videos with recipes at http://www.vahrehvah.com/ simple easy and quick recipes and videos of Indian Pakistani and Asian Oriental foods "Reach vahrehvah at - Website - http://www.vahrehvah.com/ Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=vahchef Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VahChef.SanjayThumma Twitter - https://twitter.com/vahrehvah Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116066497483672434459 Flickr Photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23301754@N03/ Linkedin - http://lnkd.in/nq25sW Picasa Photos- http://picasaweb.google.com/118141140815684791742 Stumleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/vahrehvah Tumblr http://vahrehvah.tumblr.com/ Blogger - http://vahrehvah.blogspot.in/"