Name: Cake-Do-Pyaza recipe by Pooja Misra at BetterButter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: For Making Sponge; Onion 3 to 4 finely chopped; Maida 1/2 cup; Cocoa powder 3 tbsp; Curd 1/2 cup; powdered sugar 1/2 cup; Milk 1/2 cup (if required); Baking soda 1/4 tsp; Baking Powder 1 Tsp; Coffee powder 1 tsp; Refined Oil 1/2 Cup; Salt Pinch; FOR Onion Kheer; Onion 4 finely chopped; Milk 1 cup; Sugar to taste; Milk power 1 small packet; elaichi 1/2 tsp; Nuts if you wish to add; For boiling Onions; Water 2 cups

ABOUT Cake-Do-Pyaza RECIPE

Cake-Do-Pyaza is basically a cake prepared from Onions and flavored with cocoa.. One of my Experimentive recepi that i tried for 1st time.. To think something dessertilicious from Onion seems shocking..like how can one make a cake from Onion? Even i thought the same.. But then, i thought let me try it once and then check the taste.. Believe me friends.. It turned out really tooo delicious and yummy in taste.. Absolutely opposite to the taste i first thought of.. I was really very happy when my idea of making as well as the taste was appreciated by my family.. Well.. Coming to recepi.. I have kept its name Cake-Do-Pyaza because.. I have used onions twice in the recepi... The Sponge as well as the filling of cake consists of onions. In Filling i have used Onions in the form of Kheer.. This cake is absolutely eggless..

Instructions

First of all we will make onion kheer. So.. First thing we need to do is remove pungency of onion. Take a pan and add 3 cups of water. Add Onions.
Now let it boil for atleast 10 to 15 minutes .
Add in 2 tbsp of Sugar to water.
Now strain it after onions have become tender.
Let them cool for 10 minutes.
Till then, take a pan and add a cup of milk. Let milk simmer .
Dissolve milk powder in some milk and add it..( I forgot to add in dissolved form so had a tough time in breaking lumps.)
Add in Sugar to taste
Stir it poropely. As one boil comes, Add in chopped and boiled onions
Stir well.
Cook till milk thickens.
Adjust the consistency which according to you can be best suited for filling.
After cooked. Take out in a bowl. Add in either Elaichi Powder or vanilla essence. If you like, you can add in nuts of your choice.
Now let the kheer cool down.Till then,let us make onion cake sponge.
So again here, the first thing we need to do is remove pungency of Onion. We will follow the same procedure as in above.
Take water in a bowl, add in sugar and onions. Cook for 10 minutes and strain onions
Strained onions
Now collect all the ingredients at one place which are needed to bake an onion cake.
Ingredients.
Now Sift all the dry ingredients together in a bowl
Sifted ingredients.
Now take out wet ingredients in a bowl and beat it with a beater for around 4 to 5 minutes.
Add in dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
Now beat both the ingredients well .
Add in chopped and boiled onions to bowl.
Keep A 5' Cake pan ready to bake before hand. Grease well with butter and apply butter paper at its base.
Empty the entire cake content mixture into cake tin.
Preheat oven at 180°C For around 8 to 10 minutes and then transfer the cake tin into it.
Bake the cake till done. It will take around 35 to 40 minutes.
Cake baked.
Now with the help of a cake knife cut the cake into 3 equal layers.
Onion kheer which we will be using as a filling in between the layers of cake.
Take a layer of cake on a cake board and spread onion kheer.
Add on 2nd layer and again spread onion kheer.
Cover it with 3rd layer. Make designs of your choice with the help of icing sugar. As the theme is Onion, I have made Onion design on my cake. It's very easy to make.. Draw Onion on an art sheet And cut it with the help of paper cutter..Now place the sheet on cake and sprinkle Icing sugar on it.. The design will come on your cake.
Cut a piece and serve.
Yummilicious....
Let the cake be cooled very well before serving.. It will be adding 4 moons to the taste :)

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