Eggless Semolina/ Rava/Sooji Cake

I never thought or I should say tried making a cake using Rava / Sooji. I have got this recipe from a friend who owns LG microwave and was happy to share this recipe from her LG cookbook. My MIL loved this cake.

Recipe is as it is from LG cookbook along with little changes made by me.

Recipe:

• 1 cup Semolina(sooji/suji). I use chiroti rava.
• 1/2 up whole wheat flour (atta)
• 1/2 cup plain flour (maida)
• 1/2 cup yogurt (dahi)
• 1/4 tsp saffron(kesar) or pinch of yellow color
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup + 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup + 2  tbsp milk approx.. I added 2 tbsp extra as batter was very thick.
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
• 1 tbsp cashews or pine nuts or raisins (kishmish)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160 degree Centigrade. Grease a 8-9" baking pan.
• Sift together rava, maida, wheat flour, soda and baking powder. Set aside.
• In a big bowl combine yogurt, oil and sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Add semolina mixture, saffron, green cardamom and milk to get a soft dropping consistency. Beat with an electric beater at medium speed for 5 minutes.
• Pour batter into the prepared baking tin. sprinkle cashews and raisins on top. Bake for 30 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cake was soft and yummy. MIL loved it as it was egg less and no maida. Family Happy I am Happy!.

Eggless whole wheat Tutti Frutti Cake

This Valentine B gifted me an Morphy Richards OTG and I am loving it :).This was on my wish list from last one year. Until now I used to bake cake in pressure cooker and was happy with the final outcome, but my OTG is making me even more happier when I am seeing the final outcome. The first thing that I baked in this was an egg-less tutti frutti cake, so that every one in the family can enjoy :) To make this cake extra healthy I used whole wheat flour along with multi purpose flour(maida).

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wholewheat flour
• 1 cup multipurpose flour / maida
• 1 cup milk powder
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup refined oil
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2tsp bakign soda.
• 3 tsp colored tutti frutti

Steps by step recipe for Tutti Frutti Cake:

• Sift wholewheat flour, maida, baking powder and baking soda together thrice.
• Mix milk, powdered sugar and refined oil well till light.
• Add mix flour to milk mix in three stages.
• Take care not to make batter too runny or thin.
• Add tutti frutti to batter.
• Note: Dust tutti frutti with little flour before adding it to the batter. So, that it doesn't get settled on the bottom of the cake
• Grease cake pan with oil and dust some flour to make sure cake comes out easily.
• Pre-heat the oven to 250 C.
• Put batter into the prepared cake pan and bake at 180 C for 35 to 40 minutes.
• Check if cake is ready by inserting a toothpick or knife into the cake. If it comes out clean the cake is done.
• Remove from the oven and let it cool.
• Once it's cool down you can easily remove it from the cake pan.
• Enjoy this soft, crumble cake.

Happy Cooking!