Simple sponge Cake / Pressure cooker cake

It is the basic sponge cake recipe in addition of adding nuts.

 

Ingredients:

1. Maida-2cup
2. Baking powder- 1tsp
3. Egg-2 (room temperature)
4. Milk-1cup (room temperature)
5. Oil / Melted butter- ¼ cup (room temperature)
6. Vanilla essence-3drops
7. Crushed sugar-1 cup
8. Nuts and raisins chopped -1tbsp
9. Carrot grated-1tbsp
10. dates grated-1tbsp

preparation:

• Sift maida and baking powder together.
• Mix nuts, raisins, carrot and dates with a teaspoon of maida and sieve the excess maida.
• Beat the eggs well by adding sugar little by little with an electric beater till fluffy.
• Add melted butter, milk and vanilla essence one by one.
• Add maida little by little and mix well without forming any lumps.
• Add half of the nuts mixture in to it and mix well.
• Quickly heat the cooker (remove the whistle) and melt ghee or butter on sides.
• Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of maida  at the bottom and sides of the cooker.
• Pour the cake batter in to the cooker and sprinkle remaining nuts on top of it.
• Put a heavy bottom pan on the stove top and put the cooker on top of it.
• Cook it in a low- medium flame for 30 minutes.
• Check with a knife inserted on the cake and it comes out clean.
• Remold the cake when cooker cools completely.



 

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