Eggless Besan Ladoo Cake Recipe

06 Oct Eggless Besan Ladoo Cake Recipe

Last Updated on October 6, 2025 by blessmyfoodbypayal

Eggless Besan Ladoo Cake Recipe with step wise pictorial and video method.

Besan Ladoo is that one Indian sweet which must be liked by everyone with no exceptions and what if you get the same flavours and taste in cake as well ?

Inspite of being a cake, it has all those ingredients and flavours which make it a sibling of Besan Ladoo.

Festive season is on and this is the right time to make something which is the amalgamation of tradition and modernity.

With no offense to besan Ladoo, we would like to say that besan Ladoo has one personality ie ladoo only but besan Ladoo comprises of two properties; cake and Ladoo both.

To be more specific, it will not be wrong to say that this cake is the soft, spongy and baked version of besan ke ladoo.

We are making it for diwali, although Diwali is a festival of sweets but this too is a twin brother of one sweet. Lol.

TIPS TO MAKE PERFECT BESAN LADOO CAKE

1. This is our fifth attempt in making this cake and finally we did it. But there were certain issues due to which our cake couldn’t come out perfect. Here sharing few tips to make it perfect :
2. Most importantly, all the ingredients should be at room temperature.
3. Don’t miss to roast besan by thinking that after all it is going to be cooked in oven. If you miss roasting, you will feel the taste and smell of raw besan in your cake.
4. Do not add besan to batter without sifting. Besan have lumps which needs to be broken.
5. Curd should be fresh. Sour curd will spoil your cake.
6. Semolina is added to bring that grainy texture to the cake which generally a cake Ladoo has. Semolina will not only bring the required texture but also help in binding the besan which is gluten-free.
7. In case you want to make the cake gluten free by avoiding semolina, you have to reduce the quantity of curd.
8. Bake as per the instructions given in the recipe.

STEP WISE PICTORIAL RECIPE OF EGGLESS BESAN LADOO RECIPE

Dry roast besan for 3-4 minutes on low heat while stirring continuously. Do let the colour change. We just want the rawness of gram flour to be gone. Take the besan out in some plate so that it cools down quickly.

Take curd in a bowl and add baking soda. Mix. Leave it for 5 minutes and you will see the bubbles on the surface.

Add semolina, sugar, desi ghee and cardamom powder. Mix well.

Put a sieve on the bowl and add roasted besan, baking powder and salt. Sift all the ingredients into the bowl.

Add melon seeds. Mix.

Pour the batter in greased cake mold. Place the cake tin in middle rack of the oven. Oven was preheated @170°C for 10 minutes with both the rods on but when the cake tin was placed, we switched to ‘only lower rod on’ mode. Bake the cake on the said mode for 30 minutes and thereafter switched the baking mode to ‘both rods on’ and baked for 10 minutes.

Take the cake mold out of oven and check the done-ness by inserting the toothpick. If it comes out clean, bake is properly baked. When cool completely, take the cake out of mold and enjoy after dusting shakkar/powdered sugar. 

EGGLESS BESAN LADOO CAKE RECIPE – RECIPE CARD

Eggless Besan Ladoo Cake Recipe

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Eggless Besan Ladoo Cake Recipe is a fusion dessert combining traditional besan ladoo flavours with the soft, spongy texture of cake.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Course Cake

Cuisine Fusion

Servings 1 Cake

Ingredients

  

1 cup = 250 ml

• 1 cup-108 grams Besan/gram flour
• 2/3 cup/-100 grams desi khand you can use powdered sugar)
• 3 tbsp semolina/rava
• 1/2 cup-125 grams Curd (fresh)
• 1/3 cup- 62 grams desi ghee
• 2 tbsp melon seeds
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• Pinch of salt

Instructions

 

• Dry roast besan for 3-4 minutes on low heat while stirring continuously. Do let the colour change. We just want the rawness of gram flour to be gone.
• Take the besan out in some plate so that it cools down quickly.
• Take curd in a bowl and add baking soda. Mix.
• Leave it for 5 minutes and you will see the bubbles on the surface.
• Add semolina, sugar, desi ghee and cardamom powder.
• Mix well.
• Put a sieve on the bowl and add roasted besan, baking powder and salt.
• Sift all the ingredients into the bowl.
• Add melon seeds.
• Mix.
• Pour the batter in greased cake mold.
• Place the cake tin in middle rack of the oven. Oven was preheated @170°C for 10 minutes with both the rods on but when the cake tin was placed, we switched to 'only lower rod on' mode. Bake the cake on the said mode for 30 minutes and thereafter switched the baking mode to 'both rods on' and baked for 10 minutes.
• Take the cake mold out of oven and check the done-ness by inserting the toothpick. If it comes out clean, bake is properly baked.
• Take the cake out of mold once it cools down completely and enjoy after dusting shakkar/powdered sugar.

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