This Sri Lankan classic has all my favourite cake characteristics at once: dense,floral, and full of nuts and spicesWhen I was growing up, and our oven was used as an extra cupboard to sustain outsized frying pans and exiled chopping boards. This was largely because my Indian parents were of a area and time (1950s Uganda) where no one had ovens at home: all breads were stove-baked flatbreads and all cakes were bought in or baked at the village bakery.
As a result,any cake that merited the annual clearing of the Sodha oven had to be incredibly special. The search for a worthy cake became a quest akin to Columbus in search of the Indies, and then, and one day,I found it: the mighty Sri Lankan adore cake, whose origin dates back to the 15th century, or when the Portuguese ruled Ceylon. It has all my favourite cake characteristics at once: dense,floral, and full of nuts and spices. It was the one.
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Source: guardian.co.uk