Mawa Cake is a delicious Iranian style eggless cake made basically with mawa (evaporated milk solids), flour, butter and sugar. It is a popular Parsi style cake. Its a very conventional Tea time cake. Those golden cakes used to have a lovely crust and a soft inside with a lot of goodness in them. They used to be made with eggs. But this is an eggless version. Also I have used pressure cooker to make this cale instead of the conventional baking in Oven. So if you don't have conventional Oven, still you can make this delicious Eggless Mawa cake in Pressure Cooker!
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| Eggless Mawa Cake in Pressure Cooker |
Preparation and Yield:
| Preparation time | 15 mins |
| Cooking Time | 10 mins |
| Servings | 4 |
| Recipe Category | Baking |
| Recipe Cuisine | Indian |
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| Eggless Mawa Cake in Pressure Cooker |
Ingredients:
| Maida / All Purpose Flour | 1.5 Cups* |
| Mawa / Khoya (Unsweetened) | 1 Cup |
| Baking Powder | 1 Teaspoon |
| Baking Soda | 1/2 Teaspoon |
| Cardamom Powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Milk | 1 Cup |
| Butter | 3/4 Cup |
| Powdered Sugar | 1 Cup |
| Cashews | 2 Tablespoon |
| Slivered Almonds | 2 Tablespoon + Garnishing |
| Salt | 2 Cups |
* 1 Cup = 250ml
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| Eggless Mawa Cake in Pressure Cooker |
Method:
- Take a cake tray and grease it with ghee / butter and dust it with flour and keep it ready
- First Keep a pressure cooker on medium flame. Add 2 cups of salt to it. Take a flat bottomed vessel and place it upside down in the pressure cooker
- Cover the pressure cooker with a lid and pre-heat the cooker for 10 mins without putting a weight
- Meanwhile, lets prepare the cake batter. Take Mawa in a vessel. Add 1/2 Cup of milk and mix together well till combined. Keep this aside
- In a mixing bowl, add butter and sugar and beat it well with a whisk till fluffy
- Sieve the maida, baking soda, baking salt, cardamom powder together and add it to the butter+sugar mixture.
- Also add mawa+milk mixture and fold everything together gently. Add 1/2 cup of milk and fold together
- This cake batter will be thick and not it pouring consistency. But if you feel the batter is more thicker, you can adjust by adding milk. Add nuts and fold together
- Transfer this batter to the dusted cake tray. Level the batter and sprinkle slivered almonds on top. Pat the tray gently to get rid of any air bubbles.
- Place this tray on the heated pressure cooker and close the cooker with lid. Keep the flame low and cook the cake for 30 mins or till the skewer comes out clean
- After the cake is done, take it out of the cooker. Allow it to cool completely. Gently loosen the edges and flip it on the cooling rack.
- Cut into pieces and enjoy this delicious Eggless Mawa Cake!
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| Eggless Mawa Cake in Pressure Cooker |