Happy New Year friends 🎉🎉. Here's hoping to less hate and more Cake in 2022 😊.
I prepared an Eggless Fruit Cake for my family which is
✅ Alcohol free
✅ Eggless
✅ No Oven
✅ Made in pressure cooker.
The Cake was fluffy, super moist & spongy.
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour 1.5 cup
Whole Wheat Flour 1 cup
Sugar 1.5 cup
Milk 1 cup
Oil 1/2 cup
Nuts & Dry fruits of your choice (I used Cashewnuts, dates, walnuts, figs, cranberries, raisins and tooty fruity)
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Baking Soda 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon Powder 1/4 tsp
Cocoa Powder 1 tsp
Cardamom 1 pod (powdered)
Ghee 3 tsp
Vanilla Essence 1 tsp
Sweet Lime Juice 1 cup
Method:
Step 1: Prepare the nuts and dry fruits:
Chop all the nuts into very small pieces.
Soak them in a cup of Sweet Lime juice.
Keep it refrigerated for 2 days.
Step 2: Prepare the batter:
Add all the dry ingredients namely sieved flour, cinnamon powder, cardamom powder, Cocoa powder, crushed cardamom pod, baking powder and baking soda to a bowl. Mix it well.
To it, add the soaked dry fruits (along with the Sweet Lime juice). Mix well.
Next add vanilla essence, ghee and sugar.
Whisk them thoroughly for a couple of minutes.
The cake batter is now ready.
Step 3: Prepare the Cake Mould:
Dust the cake mould (or any vessel that you would like to use for baking) with little flour and ghee.
Transfer the cake batter to the cake mould or any vessel of your choice.
Step 4: Bake the Cake:
Place the empty pressure cooker on the stove.
Place a grill inside the cooker. If you don't have a grill, you can even use the carrot grater that you have (the taller one, not the flat one).
Close the lid of the pressure cooker (no need to remove the gasket). Don’t put the whistle.
Heat it in medium flame for 5 to 6 minutes. This is equivalent to preheating the oven.
Place the mould on top of the grill. Close the cooker and heat in medium flame for 1.5 hours. This cake usually takes a little longer to cook than the usual ones !
Open the lid and insert a toothpick and check if the cake has baked completely. No piece of cake should be stuck to the toothpick. That's when the cake is baked completely.
Switch off the cooker
Cool the cake and then unmould them into a plate.
Cut & Enjoy !