- Servings:
- Preparation time: 20 minutes.
- Baking time: 40-45 minutes.
- Total time: 65 minutes.
“When ethnic flavours meet baking magic: Mahua turns into a cake full of love.”
“ Day before yesterday the delicious aroma enveloped not only my kitchen, but entire house.
Over the years, I found that exploring rather experimenting cooking with ingredients of Indian ethnic flavours provides a greater satisfaction and motivation. Here I experimented with ‘Mahua’. Mahua being naturally sweet and delicious worked beautifully in cake.
Infusing it into a cake turned out to be a beautiful fusion of tradition and innovation. The rich aroma of mahua, warm and inviting.
This mahua cake is more than just dessert—it is a celebration of heritage, taste, and the joy of experimenting with flavours close to our roots. Today it is marriage anniversary of my younger son. Mahua is fast growing tree, I wish my sweet daughter in law and loving son that their love and happiness grows faster like this tree.
Ingredients:
- Maida: 200 gm.
- Mahua flower: 50 gm.
- Sugar: 100 gm.
- Refined oil/ghee: 100 gm.
- Ghee: 1 teaspoon
- Milk: 100 ml.
- Baking soda: 1 teaspoon
- Baking powder: 1 teaspoon
- Salt: 1 pinch
Preparation:
- Rinse the mahua flower; grind coarsely along with 50 ml of milk. Keep aside.
- Sieve Maida and baking soda, baking powder and salt together (sieve 3-4 times) to make it airy. Keep aside.
- Grind sugar and make powder. Keep aside.
- Take a baking tray, put half teaspoon of ghee, and apply ghee all around the container from inside.
- Sprinkle one teaspoon of Maida over it. Discard extra Maida. Keep aside.
- Take a big mixing bowl, put sugar and mahua flower paste.
- Mix it well with the help of hand blender/food processor. (About 4-5 minutes).
- Add sieved mixture of Maida, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Mix well, add milk and make a smooth batter, add refined oil and mix well, now cake batter is ready.
Method:
- Choose the size of baking tray such that when batter is put into it, it gets half filled only, as after baking its volume gets nearly doubled.
- Now bake it into preheated OTG at 160 degree centigrade for about 35-40 minutes.
- Bake until toothpick inserted near the centre of the cake comes out clean, if it sticks, bake further few minutes. Let it cool.
- Yum-yum-yummy cake is ready to serve.
Note:
- You can bake it simply into pre heated pressure cooker on minimum flame.
- Let it cool for some time and transfer into serving plate.
Mahua flower cake (Madhuca longifolia) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.