Wild Rose Cake with Candied Angelica
I would’ve loved to call this—
Candied Angelica Cake with Wild Rose
— but I only had a small amount of the precious candy left, so this obnoxious rose gets dibs (has rose syrup and dried petals). It’s more like a pound cake-shortbread. A thick batter but not as thick as shortbread dough. The crunchy edge is my favorite. Yum! I really like how this idea turned out. Just wishing I’d have had enough Angelica to put a nice piece on top with the flowers.
Scroll if you’d like to see more. One and a half sticks of butter went into this, so I didn’t rehydrate the dried rose petals (same bushes, from last year) before mixing them in. Plenty of moisture in there. After baking and removing the cake from the pan, I poked little holes in it, let it cool, then poured rose petal syrup over it, syrup I made last week with fresh petals (see photos and video). No need for the powdered sugar; it just looks pretty! A very sweet treat.
The collage at the end shows part of a post from last year when I candied the Angelica atropurpurea stems that Octavian and I foraged here in Illinois. Continued gratitude to
@foragerchef Alan Bergo for his detailed explanation on how to candy the stems of this amazing plant! See his blog/site—
/candied-angelica/
#recipe
Anyway, if you’re not a big rose flavor fan, I’m not either, unless it’s fairly mild (but I do enjoy ma’amoul, Lebanese cookies with rose water. Thinking extra of you,
@somerabboud 💞!). I find the flavor of Rosa multiflora not to be nearly as strong as the aroma of the flowers. The syrup is mildly rosy, and I used a lot of petals! This invasive, nonnative, wild rose will reach out its arms and grab hold of you, and the more you try to get away, the more stuck you’ll get. So, I advise using scissors and letting your cuttings fall into your basket. I nicely curse 🤣 these bushes all the while telling them how wonderful they smell, and I enjoy watching various pollinators visit (see the one 🌸🐝 video).
#rosamultiflora #wildrosepetalsyrup #wildrosecake #candiedangelicastems #angelicaatropurpurea #angelicacake #midwestforaging