Who doesn’t love a piece of well made soft cake! I am yet to meet someone who does not like cakes. Cakes are made in different ways with different flavours all over the world. Birthdays and celebrations are incomplete without cakes. So today we are going to learn to make eggless mawa cake, it’s my take of the very famous Parsi mawa cake.
Eggless mawa cake will melt in the mouth owing to its ingredients. The most important one being the mawa or khoya. Milk solids in a cake, what is not to like! It is a very rich cake and equally decadent and delicious! I have used my homemade khoya recipe for this cake and it is simply out of this world.
This eggless mawa cake can be served with tea or as a rich dessert paired with a simple lunch. Nuts add to the texture and the flavours are elaichi and kesar/saffron. This cake reminds me of our Indian sweets like kesar elaichi peda and kalakand. Do try more eggless cake recipes
Black Forest Cake
Honey Cake
Chocolate Cake
Orange Muffins
- 1½ Cups all purpose flour/maida
- ½ Tsp baking soda
- ½ Tsp baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 1 Cup sugar
- ¼ Cup room temperature butter
- 1 Cup homemade khoya/mawa
- ½ Cup milk + extra as required to adjust consistency
- 2 Tbsp yogurt
- 2 Tbsp fresh cream
- 5-6 elaichi
- 1 big pinch kesar/saffron
- Cashew nuts
- Pistachios (unsalted)
- Powdered elaichi to sprinkle
- Gather all ingredients and keep the mixing bowl ready
- In a small bowl, add kesar/saffron and add 1 Tbsp milk
- Pound the elaichi and keep aside
- Next, in the mixing bowl, add sugar and butter
- Cream butter and sugar together using a hand beater or balloon whisk until sugar mixes and butter turns light and pale yellow
- Scrape sides and add crumbled khoya/mawa
- Mix the mawa too into the butter and sugar mixture
- Add milk, yogurt and cream
- Mix this well with the butter-mawa mixture. Do not worry if you do not get an even mixture and looks lumpy, that is what adds texture to the cake
- In another bowl, let's mix dry ingredients, add maida
- Next add baking powder and baking soda
- Also add in a tiny pinch of salt
- Mix the dry ingredients well
- Slowly add little dry ingredients mixture into the butter-mawa mixture
- Fold the dry ingredients carefully, do not beat the mixture
- Next add powdered cardamom
- Also add the kesar/saffron milk
- Mix it in carefully
- Pre-heat oven to 180 Deg C. Butter a cake pan or tin
- Slowly pour the cake mixture, smooth out the surface
- Tap the tin to remove air bubbles
- Place cashews and pistachios
- Sprinkle powdered elaichi
- Place in oven for 30-40 minutes or till done. Check with a wooden skewer or toothpick and it will done if it comes out clean
- Let it cool, cut into slices and serve!
Adding kesar/saffron is optional but that beautiful colour is amazing!
Adding nuts is optional, keep the cake plain if you prefer
Eggless Mawa Cake Stepwise:
Gather all ingredients and keep the mixing bowl ready
In a small bowl, add kesar/saffron and add 1 Tbsp milk
Pound the elaichi and keep aside
Next, in the mixing bowl, add sugar and butter
Cream butter and sugar together using a hand beater or balloon whisk until sugar mixes and butter turns light and pale yellow
Scrape sides and add crumbled khoya/mawa
Mix the mawa too into the butter and sugar mixture
Add milk, yogurt and cream
Mix this well with the butter-mawa mixture. Do not worry if you do not get an even mixture and looks lumpy, that is what adds texture to the cake
In another bowl, let's mix dry ingredients, add maida
Next add baking powder and baking soda
Also add in a tiny pinch of salt
Mix the dry ingredients well
Slowly add little dry ingredients mixture into the butter-mawa mixture
Fold the dry ingredients carefully, do not beat the mixture
Next add powdered cardamom
Also add the kesar/saffron milk
Mix it in carefully
Pre-heat oven to 180 Deg C. Butter a cake pan or tin
Slowly pour the cake mixture, smooth out the surface
Tap the tin to remove air bubbles
Place cashews and pistachios
Sprinkle powdered elaichi
Place in oven for 30-40 minutes or till done. Check with a wooden skewer or toothpick and it will done if it comes out clean
Let it cool, cut into slices and serve!
