Learn how to make eggless mawa cake, a classic tea cake recipe. Mawa Pistachios Cake is an eggless delicious cake with goodness of mawa/khoya, pistachios and flavoured with safron. It is prepared with 50-50% of whole wheat flour and all purpose flour.
The cake is moist, soft and spongy with amazing texture and taste from the mawa. It also has a beautiful flavour and colour added from pistachios and safron. Mawa, also called as khoya is a dairy product which is widely used in Indian cooking. It is prepared by evaporating the milk and reducing it to its solid form. Milk cake also known as Kalakand is a traditional Indian cake made by evapating the milk.
This mawa pistachios cake has an Indian flavour. It is an irresistible light, fluffy and scrumptious tea cake with nutty aroma and a bit crunchy from the nuts and pistachios giving a lovely bite to this soft, moist and fluffy cake. Mawa cake and Ghee cake are indian flavored cakes with beautiful aroma, taste and textures.
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So do try this easy classic cake recipe for your family or for any special gathering and share your thoughts about the recipe with me here. I am sure this gonna impress your guest and you will just love it.
Let’s move on to the easy and simple recipe of eggless mawa cake.
- Preparation time: 15 mins
- Baking time: 35 mins
- Serves: 6
☆ Pan size = 6.5 inches diameter × 2 inches height
☆ 1 cup = 240 ml
☆ 1 tablespoon = 15 ml
☆ 1 teaspoon = 5 ml
Ingredients:
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup All purpose flour
- ½ cup Mawa / Khoya
- 50 gms Butter
- ½ cup Sugar
- ½ tsp Baking powder
- ½ tsp Baking soda
- ½ cup Milk (120 ml)
- Few drops Vanilla essence
- A pinch of saffron strands (optional)
- 2-3 tbsp mixed nuts – pistachios, almond and cashewnuts
- 1 tbsp sliced pistachios for garnish
Method:
- Soak the saffron strands in little warm milk.
- Preheat oven @180° for 10 mins. Grease a cake pan and keep aside.
- Take the mawa and soaked saffrons in a blender and pulse for few seconds.
- In a mixing bowl add the melted butter, sugar and well till sugar dissolves.
- Add the mawa, milk and vanilla essence and stir well.
- Sieve the flours, baking powder and baking soda atleast twice and incorporate them well.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and gently fold to make a smooth batter.
- Add chopped nuts and give a quick gently fold.
- Pour the batter into the greased pan and garnish with slices pistachios.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 35 mins. A toothpick inserted should come out clean.
- Remove from oven, let it cool down, invert, cut and serve.
Notes:
● All ingredients should be at room temperature.
● You can use 100% whole wheat flour or all purpose flour.
● Always seive the flour before adding them into the wet ingredients.
● Always preheat your oven.
● Butter can be substituted with ¼ cup or ½ cup unflavored oil. I used mostly use sunflower refined oil for oil based cakes.
● Saffron is optional here.
● Baking time will differ from oven to oven, so start checking atleast 5 minutes ahead of the baking time mentioned in the recipe.
● You can add a mixture of dry fruits and nuts.
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Happy cooking!
Love Akum
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