Egg less cake in pressure cooker

How to make egg less cake in pressure cooker

Making egg less cake was on my to do list from many days. Vegetarian people prefer eating egg less cakes ,so I inspired by others to bake egg less cakes. When I tried it for the first time it turned out not that good so I started searching exact proportion and key ingredient to make egg less cake spongy and fluffy as that of cake with eggs. Used curd for making egg less cake instead of eggs. Only precaution for using curd is , it tastes better if we use freshly set curd instead of sour curd.

I have set curd and used it just after it sets perfectly(6 hours after setting curd) for making cake. And curd is made up of fresh full cream milk only.

Now for making egg less cake in pressure cooker Few settings has to be done, as pressure cooker is not made for baking and over heating it may cause permanent damage to it.

Remove gasket of pressure cooker lid for making cake in it.

Add normal salt in it and keep cake tin on salt to avoid burning cake by over heating.

Don't heat pressure cooker for very long for making cakes.

Don't use pressure cooker often to make cakes as over heating may damage it.
This egg less cake  is very soft ,moist and tasty too .Enjoy cooking cake in pressure cooker once a while only.

Preparation time:30 min

Cooking time:35 min

Ingredients:

• Maida (All purpose flour ) 3 cups
• Ghee 1/2 cup
• Sugar (Powdered ) 1 cup
• Baking powder 1/2 tea spoon
• Baking soda 1/2 tea spoon
• Salt as per taste
• Curd (Freshly set curd) 1 cup
• Water 1 cup

Directions to cook:

1. Sieve maida ,powdered sugar separately before using to remove any unwanted items in it. Keep it aside.

2. Mix pinch of salt ,maida, baking powder in a bowl.

3. Grease baking tin with ghee and keep it ready for pouring cake batter.

4. Heat Pressure cooker on gas and add 1/2 kg of normal cooking salt in it.For baking small size cake use large cooker to avoid over heating.I have used 5 litres(capacity of pressure cooker ) cooker for cooking small size cake .

5. Pre Heat cooker in this way for 5 minutes for cooking cake in it.

6. Whisk curd and water using mixer /grinder and pour it in maida.

7. Heat ghee in separate pan and add powder sugar in hot ghee.

8. Pour ghee ,sugar mixture ,baking soda in maida and mix well all ingredients together.

9. Add water in maida to get required consistency cake batter while stirring.

10. Make sure there are no lumps in cake batter.

11. Pour this cake batter quickly in baking tin and keep it immediately in preheat cooker for cooking.

12. Dont keep batter for more time without cooking/ baking as cake may turn hard. For soft cake quickly baking/cooking is necessary.

13. Close cooker lid and cook cake on low flame for about 30-35 minutes.Cooking time depends on the quantity of cake.

14. To check if cake is cooked or not insert tooth pick and if it comes out clean cake is ready.
15.Let cake cool for few minutes and take it out using knife on cake tin edges.

16. Serve egg less plain cake with any choice of icing or fruits topping.