This recipe is for most Indians who prefer baking in a pressure cooker or those who doesn’t have oven at home. It’s pretty simple with basic ingredients that yields a soft, moist eggless sponge cake. Add frosting of your choice, use as a base in different desserts or just enjoy it plain as an evening snack.
Ingredients for Sponge cake recipe without oven
Steps for Sponge cake recipe without oven
Sponge cake recipe without oven
Ingredients
• 1 CUP SALT
• 1 CUP CURD
• ½ CUP OIL
• 1 CUP CASTOR SUGAR
• 1 & ½ CUP ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
• ½ CUP MILK
• CAKE TIN
• BUTTER PAPER
• ½ TSP VANILLA ESSENCE
• 1 TSP BAKING POWDER
• ½ TSP BAKING SODA
Steps
• Pre heat a pressure cooker by adding 1 cup salt (cooking salt). Place a ring or bowl upside down inside the cooker. • Close the lid of pressure cooker without whistle and gasket. Pre heat on a medium flame for 10 minutes. • In a mixing ball, add curd, oil (cooking oil) and powdered sugar. • Beat these ingredients using a beater. You can also use a whisk but it would comparatively take more time. • For beater it takes 4-5 minutes and with whisk it takes 8-10 minutes. • For dry ingredients – take all-purpose flour (sieved), keep adding gradually to the mixture. • Keep stirring and mix slowly. Next, add milk little by little and keep mixing. • Grease a cake tin with oil from all sides. Place a butter paper in the tin. • If you do not have butter paper, sprinkle some all-purpose flour in the tin and coat evenly. • Add vanilla essence, baking powder and baking soda to the mixture. Mix. • After adding the final ingredients, do not wait for long and set the batter to bake immediately. • Pour the batter in the cake tin and tap it on a flat surface. • Pre-heat the cooker properly, lower the flame and carefully place the cake tin inside the cooker. • Cover with lid. Do not add whistle and gasket to the lid. • Cook on high flame for 5 minutes then adjust on low flame and cook for 30-35 minutes. • To check the cake, insert a knife in the middle. It should come out clean and un-sticky. • Remove the tin carefully from pressure cooker, let it cool down. • Scrape the cake from sides using a knife. Place a plate on top and turn it upside down to demould. • Remove the butter paper, cut into slice or add frosting of your choice to serve.
