Hey, Foodies Today I am here with a yummy melt in mouth malai jar cake / Milk Cake.
This technique for making the cake in a jar turns a mini dessert into an adorable and portable treat. In fact, the jars can even be decorated with ribbons or labels to create edible gifts.
Malai Cake is a soft & spongy cake soaked in sweetened milk. It is an Indo – western fusion dish. Western-style cake soaked in Indian sweetened milk, flavored with saffron, and garnished with chopped nuts, It is inspired by Ras Malai which is a traditional Indian sweet. It is a spongy, juicy, and melts in mouth cake best for gifting in anniversaries for couples.
Watch video recipe here :
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Ingredients required to make this recipe:
For the Vanilla cake base:
- All-purpose flour-1 Cup.
- Baking Powder- 1 teaspoon.
- Eggs- 3 medium-sized at room temperature.
- Oil- 1/4 Cup.
- Milk- 1/3 at room temperature.
- Vanilla essence- 1 teaspoon.
- Sugar-3/4 Cup (Powdered)
For making Malai(thickened milk)
- Milk- 3 cups.
- Milk Powder- 1/2 Cup
- Sugar-1/2 Cup.
- Cardamom powder- 1/4 Teaspoon.
- Saffron - a pinch.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the 7-inch cake tin by greasing oil or butter and place a butter paper inside it.
- Preheat the oven at 180 degrees or preheat a pan with salt and place a stand above it for 10 minutes over medium-high heat.
- Sift the flour and baking powder together and keep this aside.
- Beat the egg and sugar together until the egg becomes frothy and creamy. Add in vanilla essence, oil and milk. Beat again.
- Transfer the wet ingredients to a large bowl.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix with a rubber spatula.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared cake tin and tap twice to remove air bubbles if any.
- Bake in the preheated pan for 40-45 minutes (or in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes @ 180 degrees Celcius.)Insert a toothpick at the centre and it should come out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool down. Remove the cake from pan and cool completely.
- In a pan boil milk with sugar. Add milk powder and cardamom powder. Mix this well.
- Add a pinch of saffron and boil well. Reduce the milk into cups. Remove from heat and let it cool.
- Slice the cake into 2 or 3 layers and cut the circles out of the slices.
- In a bowl whip the cream until stiff peaks forms. Add little saffron milk and mix well. Transfer the whipped cream to a piping bag.
- Place the cake slice inside the jar as the bottom layer.
- Pour the saffron milk over the cake. Prick some holes if needed.
- Top it with whipped cream and some chopped pistachios. And do the steps for the next layers...
- Enjoy chilled...
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