Mawa Cake

Cake brings a smile to every child’s face.People of all ages tend to melt with a great piece of cake, as though the child hidden in that huge body suddenly got awakened with that sweet fruity smell of freshly baked cake.

Growing up in bylanes of Andhra, I have spent many such evenings having mawa cake and mawa cup cakes freshly delivered by a man who would travel from a local bakery every evening with freshly baked cakes pastries and chips. His sight till date brings a smile to my face whenever I visit my hometown Vizag though the visits are fewer, memories of childhood bring back a huge smile when I see that gorgeous mawa cake.

Mawa Cake

2016-03-26 16:00:55

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Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

40 min

Total Time

1 hr

Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

40 min

Total Time

1 hr

Ingredients

1. 400 ml condensed milk
2. 200 gm mawa
3. 200 ml milk
4. 50 gms butter (melt before measuring)
5. 225 gms flour (1.5 cups) + a pinch of salt if you are using unsalted butter
6. 1/4 cup chopped cashew nuts
7. 1/2 tsp baking powder
8. 1/2 tsp baking soda
9. 2 green cardamoms peeled and powdered
10. a generous pinch of saffron soaked in 2 tbsp. warm milk

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 350 F. Grease a 6 inches cake pan with some butter.
2. Grate the mawa and mix into the melted butter.
3. Add the milk and whisk till smooth with a wire whisk.
4. Sift the flour after adding baking powder &baking soda (and salt if using).
5. Add the sifted flour-baking powder into the mava-butter-milk mixture and fold in gently, the mixture should resemble fritters or pakora batter in consistency, if required add more milk to achieve the consistency.
6. Add the chopped cashew nuts, saffron and powdered cardamoms and stir gently.
7. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 40-50 minutes or till a knife tip comes out clean.
8. Let it cool completely and turn the pan upside down on a large plate and tap slightly on the bottom of the pan to unmould the cake.
9. Cut into wedges or squares as desired.

Notes

1. Do note that the baking time changes if you use a cake pan of another size.

By Bhuvana Rao

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