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Mawa Cake

Feb-20-2017
Maumita Paul Ghosh
10 minutes
Prep Time
45 minutes
Cook Time
8 People
Serves
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ABOUT Mawa Cake RECIPE

Mawa Cake, the melt-in-your-mouth khoya cake, perfumed with cardamom powder, inspired by the mawa cupcakes from the iconic B Merwan and Co

Recipe Tags

  • Non-veg
  • Easy
  • Festive
  • Dessert

Ingredients Serving: 8

  1. 200 g plain flour powdered
  2. 200 g mawa or khowa store bought
  3. 150 g brown sugar
  4. 3 eggs
  5. 1 tbsp sulatans
  6. 2 tbsp cashew nuts roasted
  7. 1/3 cup ghee or clairified butter
  8. 1/3 cup Oil
  9. 11/2 tsp baking powder
  10. 1 tsp cardamom powder
  11. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  12. 1/4 tsp Salt
  13. Little ghee or clairified butter for greasing

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven at 180C.
  2. Soak the sulatans in warm water for 15 minutes. Drain from water and keep aside.
  3. Line one 8 inch spring-form cake tin with parchment paper, grease with ghee. Keep aside.
  4. Sift the flour, baking powder, cardamom powder and salt to aerate the dry mixture. Keep aside in a bowl.
  5. Crumble mawa with hand, keep aside.
  6. In another bowl, beat the mawa, sugar, ghee and oil, there should not be any lumps.
  7. Now add the eggs, one by one, and beat well till the batter is light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract, mix well.
  8. Add the dry mixture to the batter, 2 tbsps at a time, beat well to mix.
  9. Add the sultanas and roasted cashew nuts, fold with a wooden spatula.
  10. Pour the batter into the greased tin, make the top smooth with the aid of the spatula.
  11. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
  12. Allow to cool. Serve with tea or coffee.

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Kanak Patel
Feb-23-2017
Kanak Patel   Feb-23-2017

What a pretty picture! lovely

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