From Practically Pagan Cooking by Rachel Patterson

With February having the flavour of love this cake totally fits the bill.

• 125g/4 ½ oz butter, room temperature
• 325g/11 ½ oz sugar
• 6 eggs
• 200g/7 oz fine semolina
• 100g/3 ½ oz ground cashews (or ground almonds)
• 5 ½ tablespoons honey
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cardamom (or finely ground seeds of 12 pods)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• Zest of 1 lemon
• Zest of 1 orange

Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2.  Line a rectangular cake tin (approx. 30cm x 20cm) with greaseproof paper and butter.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl and set aside.  In another bowl beat the eggs until pale and smooth, then slowly whisk them into the sugar and butter mixture.  Fold in the semolina, ground nuts, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, vanilla essence and citrus zest.

Fold the mixture together and spoon into your cake tin.  Pop in the oven and bake for 45 minutes or until the top is golden brown and firm to the touch.  Leave to cool before cutting or taking out of the cake tin.

Rachel is an English witch who has been walking the Pagan pathway for over thirty years.
A working wife and mother who has had over 30 books published (so far), some of them becoming best sellers.

Her passion is to learn, she loves to study and has done so from books, online resources, schools and wonderful mentors over the years and still continues to learn each and every day but has learnt the most from actually getting outside and doing it.

She likes to laugh…and eat cake…

Rachel gives talks to pagan groups and co-runs workshops with the Kitchen Witch Coven.

High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft.

A regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine, she also contributes articles to several magazines such as Pagan Dawn and Witchcraft & Wicca. You will find her regular ramblings on her own personal blog and YouTube channel. Rachel is host for the Pagan Portals Podcast, produced by Moon Books Publishing.

​Her craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, Wicca, hedge witchery, kitchen witchery and folk magic.

Her heart is that of an English Kitchen Witch.

​Rachel was added to the Watkins ‘100 spiritually influential List’ for 2023.

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