What if I say that we can bake a delicious and healthy cake in just 5 minutes?
What if I say that you can make the cake batter in less than 10 minutes?
And what if I say that we could make a healthy yet delicious cake without all purpose flour, white sugar and butter? Interesting isn't it?
This cake that you see is made out of whole wheat, mixed nuts and jaggery. Made it in microwave and it came out very soft, fluffy and tasty too.
Ingredients:
Whole Wheat Flour 1.5 cup
Powdered Jaggery 1 cup
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking Soda 1/2 tsp
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
Milk 1 cup
Yogurt 1/4 cup
Mixed nuts 2 tbsp
Vanilla Essence 1 tsp
Ghee 2 tsp
Method:
Preparing the Cake batter:
1. Powder all the nuts into a coarse powder. I used cashews, raisins, cranberry, badam, walnuts and raisins.
2. Powder the grated jaggery into a powder.
3. In a bowl, add all the dry ingredients namely powdered jaggery, sieved whole wheat flour, powdered nuts, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.
4. To the above, add yogurt and whisk it well. Yogurt is the egg substitute which provides fluffiness to the Cake.
5. Next add vanilla essence, ghee, milk and whisk them thoroughly for a couple of minutes.
6. The cake batter is now ready. If you find the batter very thick, then add milk and adjust. The batter consistency should be like dosa batter.
7. Dust the cake mould with little flour and ghee.
8. Transfer the cake batter to the cake mould.
9. On top of the batter, add some mixed nuts as toppings. (I used the powdered nuts)
Baking the Cake:
1. Place the bowl in the microwave and bake it for 4 minutes on microwave power level high.
2. After 4 minutes, switch off the microwave.
3. Insert a toothpick into the cake and check if it has baked completely. No piece of cake should be stuck to the toothpick.
4. If yes, then the cake is ready. If not, bake it for one more minute.
5. Switch off the microwave.
6. Allow the cake to cool and then unmould into a plate.
7. Yummy cake is ready.
Note:
5 minutes is enough to bake the cake. If you bake more than that time, then cake will become hard and it might be burnt too.
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