I am sure most of you will be loving cakes just the way i do.Now after started baking cakes in pressure cooker i wanted to try marble cake.
Marble cake is a classic childhood cooking memory. Whether using lurid colours for a psychedelic finish, or just chocolate and vanilla, it's a teatime treat.
A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake, in which case it is mainly vanilla, with streaks of chocolate.
Other possibilities are strawberry or other fruit flavors, or (particularly in marbled coffee cakes) cinnamon and/or other spices.
Followed recipe from sharmispassions and baked it in a pressure cooker.
This pretty Marble Cake is a combination of vanilla and chocolate batters that are swirled together just before baking to give that wonderful marbled effect.
This cake is very soft, with the blend of chocolate and vanilla flavours
The best part is it is a pressure cooker marble cake.
Ingredients:
Recipe Reference : sharmispassions
Maida - 1 and 1/4 cup
Condensed milk / Milk powder - 3 tbsp
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Butter/oil - 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp
Hot water - 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Grease the cake tin with a little butter or oil.Preheat a pressure cooker as follows.Remove the whistle/regulator of cooker you wont need it throughout the process.
2.Place a pressure cooker on flame and place a separator and close the cooker with its lid. Remove the whistle/regulator you wont need it throughout the process. (you can either close the cooker with the lid as you normally do or place the Lid upside down too)Then place the cooker set up on high flame for 10 minutes. till the cooker is being preheated lets prepare batter.
3. Sieve maida with baking powder and baking soda atleast twice and keep aside. In a bowl whisk oil and sugar till sugar is dissolved. next add milk and mix well until creamy.
4. Now add vanilla essence, condensed milk / milk powder and mix well .Then add maida, mix well to form a creamy batter.in a small bowl mix hot water with cocoa powder and keep aside.
5. Take 1/4 of the prepared batter, add to coco powder paste , mix well and keep aside. Now both batters are ready lets start with cake.
6. First pour half of the vanilla batter in cake next add half of the chocolate batter in circles with a spoon as shown below. Then with a fork make swirls to create marble like patterns - dont overdo.
7. Again add the remaining vanilla batter , chocolate batter in circles and make marble like patterns with a fork / knife.Do not pour up to the brim, stop when the pan is 3/4th full.
8. Now cake is ready to go in cooker ,Can you see the swirls? .
9.Now open the cooker and place the cake pan with batter carefully on the separator plate and close the lid.(whistle or regulator is not needed )
10.Now switch the flame to low mode and cook for 1 hour on low flame. To Check if your cake has got cooked insert a knife or toothpick in centre of cake if it comes out clean that means cake is done. my cake took 35 minutes to cook.
11 When the cake is ready,remove from flame and set aside. Do not open the lid immediately. Open after 10 minutes. •You will find that the cake has puffed up well and would have browned nice and evenly too.
12. Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins.•transfer the tin onto a wet cloth for easy unmoulding.Just tap the cake tin and the cake would come out easily. But in case if you find difficulty in tapping the cake out, just run a knife through the sides of the cake and tap it out.
13.Leave aside on a wire rack until it cools down. Once fully cooled cut cake into slices and enjoy with tea
Tips:
Please remove cooker ring and whistle while making the cake or else your cooker can get damaged,.use an old cooker for making this cake.
Do not forget to line the pan or else the cake might stick to the pan.
After the batter is ready, don't allow the batter to sit for more than the preheating time as cake can turn hard.
while inserting fork or toothpick try checking in the center if its cooked completely or not.If the center of the cake isnt cooked and is slightly sticky, cover the top of the cake with butter paper and bake it for 5 more mins,it will be perfect. The butter paper covering will avoid more browning on top at the same time the centre will be cooked perfectly.
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make sure to slice only when completely cooled. Cooling time of 4-5 hrs is highly recommended.
You can even use 2 tsp of orange zest / peels along with the dryfruits.
you can even use maida +wheat flour in 50:50 ratio in above cake. The original recipe called for orange zest for extra flavour but I skipped it as I wanted a plain chocolate vanilla flavoured cake.
You can just pour whole of the vanilla batter then the chocolate batter fully and make swirls. the proportion of chocolate : vanilla batter is purely your choice.
The cake is very soft and is not of the firm type of cake. The texture is more like the vanilla sponge cake •The cake rises well so make sure to pur only till 3/4 of the cake pan.
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