Eggless Meetha Paan cake recipe
An eggless cake flavoured with the ingredients of paan is something one of the most flavourful cake recipe.
Ingredients
1 Cup = 200 ml
FOR CAKE
- 1.5 Cup all purpose flour (220 gram)
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar (165 gram)
- 1 cup curd/yoghurt (260 gram - at room temperature)
- 1/2 cup oil (100 ml)
- 1/2 cup tutti fruity (or as much you want)
- 4 betel leaves/paan ke patte
- 1 tbsp gulkand
- 2 tbsp sounf
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- Few drops of green food colour
FOR ICING
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- Colourful sounf
Instructions
FOR CAKE
- Add 4 betel leaves, 1 tbsp gulkand and 2 tbsp sounf in a grinder. Instead of these three ingredients you can add 2 readymade paan in the grinder jar.
- Grind them to a coarse paste. Keep aside.
- Add 1 cup curd in a bowl and add 1/2 tsp baking soda in it.
- Whisk them so well and put on rest for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, you will find a bubbly surface over the curd.
- Then add 1/2 cup oil, 3/4 cup powdered sugar and mix well.
- Add the grinded mixture (bettle leaves+gulkand+supari) into the bowl.
- Mix well.
- Add green food colour and mix. The quantity of food colour depends upon your choice that how deep green you want your cake. You can skip green colour if you don't like.
- Put a sieve on the bowl and add 1.5 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder and pinch of salt.
- Sift the flour into the bowl.
- Add tutti fruity directly on the flour.
- Mix well using cut and fold method.
- Pour the batter in a greased Baking tin.
- Bake @180°C for 30 minutes in a pre-heated oven with both the rods on.
- Take the cake out and let cool for 10-15 minutes.
- Thereafter invert the cake on cooling rack and cool completely.
MAKING OF ICING
- Mix 1/4 cup powdered sugar and 1 tbsp milk in a bowl.
- Pour this icing on the cake.
- Decorate with supari.
- Enjoy.