Cooker Cake

I have 2 recipes for baking cake in pressure cooker. Both come out really well. However I love the first one. I have shared both on this blog.
The photos posted here of the second recipe(The upper and lower side of the cake) but both the cakes look the same. The first one will be a little bigger in size than the second one because of the ingredients.

Recipe 1

 

INGREDIENTS

 

maida - 150 gms
Powdered sugar - 250 gms
plain butter - 150 gms

Mawa - 100 gms

(purchase the above ingredients in exact given quantity so that u dont go wrong in measurement)

Eggs - 4

Baking powder - 1 spoon
Milk - 1 spoon
Vanilla essence - 1 spoon

METHOD

1. Beat the eggs very well until it becomes lighter and add 1 spoon vanilla essence to it and beat it again very well and keep it aside.

2. Mix mava with 1 spoon milk so that it becomes soft and keep it aside.

3. Take butter in a wide vessel(a big thaali or paraat) and stir with hand very hard until it becomes soft and creamy.
4. Add the beaten egg to this mixture. Mix well to blend all ingredients thoroughly.
5. Sieve together maida and baking powder into this mixture and stir again nicely with hand to form a creamy batter.

6. Sieve powdered sugar into this mixture and blend again.

7. Add the mawa mixture and stir nicely so that all ingredients are mixed well without formation of lumps and you get a creamy and fluffy batter. 

8. Grease the baking tin (or cake tin) with ghee/butter and dust it by sprinkling maida over greased surface evenly.
9. Pour the mixture into the greased baking tin and keep it aside for 15-20 minutes.
10. The pressure cooker should be completely dry before you start baking. Use cooker container which has big holes in it. You can put the baking tin on that container and then put it inside the presure cooker. Now put the cake tin containing the cake batter, inside on cooker dish.
11. Close the cooker lid and do not put the whistle on the lid.
12. Let it cook for 40 minutes, then switch off the heat. Do not open the lid immediately.

13. After 10 minutes open the lid to check whether the cake is done. Put a knife inside the cake.
14. If it comes out clean it means that cake is done.
15. Serve.

Recipe 2

INGREDIENTS

Plain flour (maida) - 1 and 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 1
Refined oil or plain butter - 1/2 cup
Baking soda - 1 teaspoon
Milk - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon

METHOD

1. Beat the egg very well until it becomes lighter and looks like double the original quantity. (As you do while making omlete )
2. Mix sugar and oil together and stir them pretty hard till the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
3. Add the beaten egg to this mixture. Mix well to blend all ingredients thoroughly.
4. Now prepare a mixture of plain flour (maida) and baking powder and sieve it to avoid any lump.
5. Now gradually add this maida mixture, to the batter prepared by mixing sugar, oil and egg.
Note: As you stir the mixture, it will become dense. Add some milk in small amount to make it smooth. Keep on repeating the process of adding maida and then milk as required, till batter is well blended (It should look fluffy/ soft).
6. Add Vanilla essence to the batter and again blend thoroughly.

7. Grease the baking tin (or cake tin) with oil and dust it by sprinkling maida over greased surface evenly.
Note: Use baking tin of 6 inch in diameter, so that it can easily get into the pressure cooker.
8. Pour the mixture into the greased baking tin.
Note: Baking Tin should be made of Aluminium
9. Heat the presure cooker on high heat for 2 minutes.
Caution: If baking tin comes into direct contact of the base of cooker, it can harm ( overbake ) the cake.
Remedy: Use cooker container which has big holes in it. You can put the baking tin on that container and then put it inside the presure coker. Even if you do not have the cooker container cake can be made, but there is a big chance of getting its lower part overbaked
10. Now put the cake tin containing the cake batter, inside on cooker dish.( Do not put water inside the pressure cooker)
11. Close the cooker lid and do not put the whistle on the lid.Lower the flame from high to low after 2 minutes.
12. Let it cook for 40 minutes, then switch off the heat. Do not open the lid immediately.

13. After 10 minutes open the lid to check whether the cake is done. Put a knife inside the cake.
14. If the mixture will not stick on it, means that cake is done.
15. Serve.