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Eggless Mawa Cake

The famous mawa cake full of milk and cardamom flavor and studded with nuts and rose petals. Then its glazed in sugar.
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: dessert, desserts, eggless, glazedcake,, khoya, mawacake,, teacake
Servings: 8 servings
Author: Devangi Raval

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1/2 cup ghee or unsalted butter room temperature
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup almond meal
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • ½ cup plain yogurt
  • ½ cup milk
  • pinch saffron optional
  • 1 cup mawa see notes
  • 2-3 tbsp Dry fruits - almonds, cashews, pistachios
  • 1 tbsp rose petals optional

Sugar Glaze

  • 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder
  • 2-3 tbsp milk
  • Few drops food gel color
  • rose petals, freeze-dried raspberry etc for garnishes

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven at 350 F. Grease the baking pan with some butter.
  • In a bowl, add dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cardamom and nutmeg powder.
  • Take butter in mixing bowl, add sugar and beat the mixture for few minutes until it becomes light and fluffy. Add, yogurt and beat for another few seconds to incorporate it.
  • Add half of the flour mix and half of the milk (dilute saffron in the milk), and gently mix everything and add remaining flour and milk. Do not over mix it. Add the mawa/khoya and mix it using a spatula or a spoon.
  • Stir in the dry fruits and rose petals or you can also sprinkle dry fruits on top.
  • Bake it for 30 minutes or until it looks golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
  • Let it cool in the pan for few minutes and then remove it on the cooling rack.
  • Slice and serve.

Sugar Glaze (optional)

  • In a bowl, mix powdered sugar, cardamom and couple of spoons of milk. It should have slightly runny consistency. Pour the glaze on cooled cake. You can add few drops of gel food color of your choice.

Notes

I used store-bought mawa/khoya, but if you want to make some -use ¼ cup milk plus ½ cup milk powder. Just cook the two for a couple of minutes until it becomes a lump and looks dry like marzipan. Let it cool down and then add it to the cake. 
If you make it without glaze, increase sugar 1/4 cup. 
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