"Egg Ghee Cake" ... my new passion for baking is really giving me what I was craving for ages now ... I was really missing those childhood times when we relished simple cakes without creme' and I ate a lot of them in my friend’s home ... finally got a good~ spongy~ delicious cake with eggs that was polished off by friends within an hour ... Yummilicious ...
** Oh, yes the baking bug has really caught on me and is ruling my mind nowadays. I am always on the lookout for simple easy to do recipes, as I do not want to goof up and end up with something inedible. Here is a simple "Egg Ghee Cake" that I tried out, which turned out fantastic. Tasted more on the lines of mawa cake which I love. When cake turn out perfect bakes it really encourages you to do more and when your friends love them you really want to try your hand soon on the other recipe. Baking is definitely going to be a beautiful never ending journey for me. Honestly, I am still baking on my 30 yrs old oven and it is giving me results, now that I have understood a little bit of fixing issues of oven too. If you are getting burnt top on your cakes like how I used to, just turn off the top coil and preheat and bake on single bottom coil till almost done. Then start the top coil and bake for another 5 minutes and you get a perfectly baked cake. I am sure now all of you will finally witness more bakes in my Blog. Well, I do not want to waste precious time and delay the baking of this awesome cake, so go ahead and try this one out, its just perfect, we loved it in my home.
** Here is the recipe for "Egg Ghee Cake" My Style .....
** Ingredients :
APF/Maida : 1.5 cups
Ghee/Toop/Clarified Butter : ¾ th cup
Sugar Powder/Sakkre Pitti/Pitti Shakkar : 1 heaped cup
Thick Cream/Malai : ½ cup (I used Amul Cream)
Eggs/Motto : 4 at room temperature
Baking Powder : ½ tsp
Baking Soda : ½ tsp
Salt/Namak/Meeta : a large pinch
Vanilla Essence : ½ tsp
** Sift maida, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a wide bowl and keep it aside ready. Also, sift the sugar powder and and keep it ready aside.
** Preheat the oven at 180 deg. C. Prepare and keep a aluminium baking dish ready by applying the butter/ ghee/oil all over the inner side in a thin film. Now sprinkle a little bit of the wheat flour from inside and tap it all over evenly without touching with hand. Invert and tap it so that the excess flour falls away.
** In a wide bowl, add in ghee and sugar and beat well. It should turn out creamy. Now add in the thick cream and beat well till very soft. You can use the electric beater, I did. Now break in one egg at a time and continue beating till they get mixed in.
** Finally add in the sifted and kept flour little by little and fold into the mixture till all is done. Do not use the blender for mixing flour, but just mix in well with a spatula. If you feel that the batter is too thick add in a little bit of milk and add well. Finally mix in the vanilla essence and the batter is now ready to be baked.
**Pour the batter into the prepared and kept baking dish in one go. Tap it slightly on the platform to get a leveled top. Place the tray into the preheated oven and bake at 160 /180 deg. C for about 25 to 35 minutes or till done/till a wooden skewer inserted comes out clean.
** Note: The actual time of baking differs from each oven and their temperature level, so do use your own judgment. Also if your oven heats up too much at 180 deg. C and burns the sides of the cakes, then bake it at 160 deg. C, like how I do. Takes a few minutes more, but gives results.
** When done, remove from the oven carefully with the help of oven tongs and place it on a platform and allow the cake to completely be cooled, say for about 30-40 minutes undisturbed. Now run a blunt knife through the side edges to loosen the cake tin and then gently invert it on a flat plate/tray and then flip it back again on top side. Cut it into slices/pieces or the shapes desired by you and put it into an airtight container.
** "Egg Ghee Cake" is done and ready to be served. Serve them fresh cut into pieces of shape and size of your choice and enjoy them fresh with your family and friends. Do try them out they are delicious and if you love simple spongy cake, you will love this cake too. In my home and my friends all loved the cake very much as it was spongy in texture and tasted like mawa cake.
** I have a lot more to learn on the baking front and I have slowly improvised myself. I have begun to understand the desired batter texture etc. which I think was where I was going wrong too. There are many more in my to-do-list with eggs and without, and I sure will give them a try as and when I get the time. Now that my confidence has been slowly built up, I am waiting for the next one to be tried and my hubby is asking for the next slice of the baked one, so this one is sure to be over soon. So, I urge you all to keep trying, even if there are a few flops, that’s fine and I assure you the best way to learn.
** Though not many more there are quite a few “Cakes/Muffins” Recipes in my Blog, do go through the common link shared below and try out that which you would like to relish with your family and friends …
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