Grapes Cake Recipe

Let’s Bake a Grapes Cake

this is my grapes cake picture

Ingredients required:

• 1/4th cup Sooji/rawa
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 cup curd
• 0.5 cup milk
• 3/4th cup sugar (powdered)
• 4-5 teaspoon oil 
• 250 gm grapes (chpped)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• Dry fruits (whichever available at home) finely chopped

Let’s start

Preparing the batter 😃

• Add curd, rawa/sooji & wheat flour and mix well. keep the mix aside for half an hour.
• After half an hour take the mix and add the milk to get not so flowing & not so thick consistency (thicker than idli batter we use). Add some wheat flour if batter is runny.
• Add 4 spoon oil and sugar to the mix.
• Add vanilla essence and half of the chopped dry fruits & mix well. 
• Take baking soda and baking powder and mix both in 1 spoon oil. Now add this mix to the cake batter.
• Take chopped grapes and dust with some flour and then add to the batter and mix gently. Dusting will not let the grapes settle down to the bottom.
• Grease a pan/mould with oil, which you are going to use for the baking and pour the batter into the pan and add the remaining dry fruits at the top (don’t mix).
• Tap the mould gently to remove any trapped air bubbles.

Preparing our homemade Oven ;)

• Take a pressure cooker or kadhai/wok and add common salt at the base, a half inch thick layer should be formed (this salt can be used again and again for baking purpose)
• Place any inverted plate or a big steel bowl over the salt.
• Close the cooker without whistler or cover the kadhai with the plate which closes it completely.
• Preheat for 10 minutes on normal flame.

Baking the cake finally :D

• Place the cake mould in the homemade oven and cover the oven(don’t put whistle over the cooker)
• Bake the cake on low to medium heat and check after 40 min by inserting a toothpick/knife in the middle. If it comes out clean the cake is ready. If not, then bake again for 10-15 minutes.
• In kadhai on medium to low flame it takes around 1-1.5 hours. In cooker it takes 45-60 minutes on low flame.
• Don’t check the cake again and again otherwise heat will keep coming out and it will not rise well. 
• Once baked well, take the mould out and let it cool. Now separate the sides of the cake stuck to the mould with the help of knife and once done, invert the mould over a plate/tray and tap at the top. Cake will come out itself.
• Do not take out a hot cake from the mould as it will not come out properly and can break.