Hi!
My first memory of a home made cake takes me back to my childhood when my Mom used to make a simple vanilla cake at home in the pressure cooker using sand as we did not have an oven and then frost it with home made beaten cream and sugar and decorate with silver balls and coloured sugar coated fennel seeds as these were the only things available to decorate. She always made a cake with eggs, later on we stopped eating eggs too at my Mom’s place and the concept of eggless was introduced to us.
The first eggless cake we had was made by mom’s friend aunt K who is a Punjabi bramhin and does not even eat onion and garlic. She used to make an eggless cake using malai or the milk cream. We could not make out any difference as the cake was amazingly soft. I eagerly asked her for the recipe and she gladly gave it and I scribbled down in my recipe diary, yes, I remember telling you all that I started noting down recipes as early as in 8th-9th std.
A few days back I saw someone making an eggless cake with malai/ milk cream on a TV show, that reminded me of the cake aunt K made and I craved for it. I had all the ingredients in my pantry so decided to give it a try and was surprisingly happy with the end result. This cake is very quick to make, is amazingly soft and just melts in mouth. It’s a perfect treat for vegetarians and also for people who avoid eggs.
Ingredients
1-1/3 cups APF/ maida
3/4 cup malai/ fresh milk cream
1 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp baking pwd
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp strawberry/pineapple essence (optional)
7” tin for baking
Method
Preheat the oven at 180C.
Sift together the APF, baking pwd and soda, 3-4 times.
Beat the malai and sugar together. Add the essence.
Gradually add the APF and mix. Add milk enough to get a pouring consistency.
Grease a tin and then sprinkle APF evenly.
Pour the cake mix into a greased tin and even the surface.
Bake for 40—45 mins or till the knife/needle/ skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack for an hour.
Cut the cake into slices and serve.
78 comments:
Great Work Pari, I never thought cake with homemade cream can be so fluffy and soft. Will surely try it as my family is pure vegeterian
Very lovely cake! Love to grab one piece. My friend's mom too used to prepare cake with pressure cooker during my school days:)
Wow - looks wonderful....
Love the cake...
Cake looks really soft and fluff pari..Eggless too,,ahha..
hey pari,
yester years recipes handed over my moms and grand mom's are a treasure! would keep this recipe in my favourites :)
Thanks
Wow.. looks soft and delicious.. thanks for the wonderful recipe :)
great cake...the texture makes it impossible to believe that its eggless. awesome. between how do you collect malai?is it the thick skin of the milk (that we get while boiling)?
Dear Sayantani,
very correct, what you get on top of the milk after boiling is malai. Use a full cream milk and let it cool down to remove a good chunk of malai/ cream.
This is the cake we grew up with!
The round bajaj ovens, which always put one in a conumdrum ith fused ouyt coils!... and then the pressure cooker!
Thanks for sharing.
The cake looks so moist and spongy. Just perfect :)
Homemade malai cream sponge cake looks delicious Pari.Eggless sounds too good.
Hi Pari
Eggless cake looks so delicious and moist. Can't wait to prepare one by using this method.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
very nice n tempting.. cake..
Pari cake looks so soft.
wonderful and delicious cake i also used malaie to make a cake so know the taste
Delicious.. .Pari...
My only motive to bake eggless is when I want to make something for my parents , inlaws and grandparents .
Not to forget... Offcourse on the festival days...
Use yogurt as an egg replacer.. they do a great job.
Smooth and spongy cake!!! Bookmarking it :)
Lovely Recipe dear... great great thanks for the eggless recipe....
Sure will give a try....
Love the way you represented it - step by step pictures.
Delicious looking cake :) spongy and yummy :)
spongy delicious
Perfect.....i always use to make cake using malai back at my mom's place....infact bowl full of malai use to mean cake time...lol...
Cake looks absolutely soft and super moist..yumm!
what a spongy sponge cake :)
Soft and delicious cake!!
spongy cakes. droolworthy moist cakes:)
So fluffy n soft..looks great Pari!
US Masala
looks so spongy! delicious!! kudos for ur effort :)
cake looks perfect and soft!
your sponge cake looks so soft and delicious. can just imagine the aroma lingering around there.. yummm...
Looks soft and spongy. I usually prepare cake with condensed milk. Sure to try this malai version..
hey pari..super job yar...lovely sponge cake..n ofcourse a nice snap of it..
It looks so delicious and yummy...
Good work pari.Looks delicious ,perfect. Bookmarked !!
looks delicious and perfect
The cake looks yum...soft and moist!
I love cakes like this. It looks moist and delicious. I think it is so funny that even at a young age you were writing down recipes..lol. We food bloggers are so much alike. I have recipes that I have saved that I also wrote when when I was very young:)
wow, that looks gorgeous, very rich cake with Malai in it!, I haven't tried with Malai!, I have made eggless plain ones, this sounds delicious...
its soo soft and spongy...love the eggless and malai version!!
Looks nice and spongy
mmm sure looks spongy and yummylicious.
Aaha Oho
hi
the cake looks just yummm!!
i do have a question though, living in the US i never really boil the milk
hence no malai. can regular heavy cream available at the supermarket work?
would really appriciate your input
thanks
kavita
Hi
the cake looks yumm!!
i do have a question though
living in the US we hardly ever boil milk, hence do not have home made malai
can reg heavy cream available at the super market be used instead?
would really appriciate your input
thanks
kavita
The cake looks so soft and fluffy and yumm. Wish to have a slice with my chai now :-)
Dear Pari
How are you? I am off blog these days.
Very nice bake and the photos too.
Have nice week ahead
Dear Kavita, pls try full fat cream. That should solve the problem.
Dear Ushnish da, I am doing fine. Where are u these days?
I never knew cake can be made with malai.....thanks for sharing.....u saved me from churning butter from my malai.
Dear Pari,
thank you i did try it with full cream
and it came out super fantastic!!
it was soft and moist, loved it!
now i would love to try and convert it into a chocolate cake
could you replace the 1/3 cup of flour
with cocoa powder or would it rattle the recipe??
would love your input
how about adding chocolate chips?
really enjoy your blog
wish you happy recipe creating!
Kavita
dear kavita, I'm so glad that u liked the cake. based on how chocolatey u like it you can replace starting from about 2tbsp to 1/4 cup should do. Plus u can use chocolate essence and top it with some chocolate chips.
Hi, vegetarians love this cake, it looks very delicious. I have a convection microwave. Pl tell how to bake a cake in microwave.
If you have a convection microwave oven it should solve your problem, just preheat the oven to 180C and bake in it. You can make chocolate cake directly using microwave only, in that case put the cake on 100% microwave or microwave high and cook for 4-5mins. Hope this helps you.
Awesome!
Hi... one question..can u replace fresh milk cream with heavy cream u get in the store? Please reply.
Thanks.
Hi...
is 1 cup measurement = 240ml?
regards...Valli.
1cup is 200ml in a measuring cup.
I made this cake last night and it turned out fantastic. Needless to say, it didn't last for 24hours! Thank you so much for sharing.
Wats APF
APF is all purpose flour or maida.
Hii.can i make this cake with amul cream instead of malai.n can u say hw much gram is actually 1 cup maida
Shemi, yes, u can use Amul Cream for making cake. 1 cup is 8 oz.
Can I use wholewheat flour (atta) for this cake? Any changes you'd recommend in the rest of the recipe if I do so?
What if I use granulated sugar rather than powdered sugar? Would powdered jaggery work?
You can use granulated sugar but that takes longer to dissolve. I have not tried jaggery so can't comment on that. If you try do let me know your experience.
Can we use the amul cream or need to use full cream milk instead of malai. Also, do we need to whip the cream before we mix it with sugar?
Hi, I tried and followed your recipe just now.. and it came out beautifully, just as you have shown in pics. Thanks for the recipe! I usually make cakes with egg only, however I was out of egg and was having lots of cream. So wanted some recipe for Cake made with malai. Being lazy to make butter out of it.. :-D However, I would reduce the sugar to 3/4th cup next time, coz it's too sweet for my palete..!! Other than that I Loved your recipe..!! Thanks a lot for sharing...!! You made cake-making easy for me..!! :-D
Mam , do u use a 240 ml cup ?
I mean hw much makes 1 cup?
1 cup = 8 Oz or 200ml
Wow....loved your recipe...i have a doubt .....How to bake this cake using pressure cooker?
Hello unknown reader. To bake in a pressure cooker, remove the pressure and ring from the cooker and place the ring stand inside the cooker and then close the lid. Heat on high flame for 10mins. Place the batter inside the greased aluminium mould and release it lightly onto the stand in the pressure cooker. Now reduce the flame to the minimum and bake for 30-35mins. Hope this helps you.
Hello unknown reader. To bake in a pressure cooker, remove the pressure and ring from the cooker and place the ring stand inside the cooker and then close the lid. Heat on high flame for 10mins. Place the batter inside the greased aluminium mould and release it lightly onto the stand in the pressure cooker. Now reduce the flame to the minimum and bake for 30-35mins. Hope this helps you.
hi pari. .I have made this cake now more than 25 times....it's delicious and comes out perfect
please post some more eggless desert or cake recepies. ..thank you
hi pari..awesome recepie! comes out great. ..please post some more interesting ones for eggless deserts and cakes..thank you
Has any one tried replacing maida with wheat flout?is d measurment ssame and taste?
Thanks for the recipe Pari. Will try and update. 😊
Can i replace maida with wheat flour plz reply as many of us have this query
Yes, you could, in that case mix a tbsp of flaxmeal in 3tbsp water and let it stand and add that too to the batter. Wheat cakes are denser that cakes made with maida.
Yes, you could.The cake is more denser.
Hi Pari, I tried your recipe with atta instead of maida and it really came out well. Thanks for this nice recipe. I was looking for some recipe to finish off left over cream.
Hi Pari,
Your recipe is rocking.
My cake comes out very light, spongy and tasty.
Thank you so much for the awesome recipe.
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