Mawa pistachios cake recipe/ Eggless mawa cake recipe/ Eggless pistachios cake recipe

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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Hello Everyone.. I am Akum Raj Jamir. I am a Naga Lady born and bought up from Nagaland. Married to a Tamilian and settled in Chennai now.  I worked in hotel industry for 3 years and later I shifted to corporate sector and worked in US based MNC companies. In January 2014 I was blessed with a baby boy and that it when I decided to quit my job and give me full time for him as well as the home. Now I am a homemaker ☺.  I started cooking at the very small age. We sisters used to help mom in the kitchen and followed the foot step of my mom and that's how I developed my cooking skills. A foodie by nature and a passionate cook, loves everything about food. Cooking is my passion. I love experimenting with food in my kitchen and try to bring the best in whatever I cook. I cook with all my heart and soul and this love is evident in the dishes I cook.  I believe in sharing a lot thus whatever I cook I share with fellow friends and my fan followings. So this space is all about food from my kitchen for foodies like me. Explore the recipes ☺