Sponge Cake

 

Welcome to my kitchen, Today we will make a sponge cake. Christmas is about to come, and no Christmas party is complete without a cake. today we will learn to make sponge cake in a presser cooker. it is too easy to make. sponge cake is made with minimum and basic ingredients that are somehow available in every well maintained Indian household pantry. This delicious cake is not only easy but also very versatile, as it can be used as a base for any other dessert. if you have not an oven or microwave. so don't worry you can be made the cake in a presser cooker. so let's start to make.

Ingredients for the batter for sponge cake

• 4 eggs
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup maida/all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Ingredients for make sponge cake

• 1/4 tsp butter to grease the pan
• 1 tsp maida to flour the pan
• 1 1/2 cup sand to create a base at the bottom of the pressure cooker

Firstly greasing and flouring the pan:

Step 1:- Take a cake pan, apply butter all over the pan, and grease well.

Step 2:- Add some maida into the pan and cover the entire pan with flour by rotating the pan.

Step 3:- Dust off extra Maida from the pan. and keep aside.

Now prepare the batter for the cake:

Step 1:- Take 4 eggs in a mixing bowl and whisk the eggs well.

Step 2:- Now add powdered sugar and mix well.

Step 3:- Now add maida(all-purpose flour), baking powder, salt and mix well.

Step 4:- Mix all ingredients very well without lumps.

Step 5:- Now add melted butter into it and mix again without lumps.

Step 6:- In last Add vanilla extract and mix the whole batter without any lumps.

Now we will bake the cake

Step 1:- Take the pan, which you have greased with ghee.

Step 2:- Now put the batter in the pan carefully. And spread it evenly.

Step 3:- Now take a pressure cooker. And spread  the sand all over the base of the pressure cooker.

Step 4:- Place the cake pan carefully over the sand. and cover the lid of the pressure cooker.

Step 5:- Before cover, the cooker removes the rubber washer from the lid. and remember do not put on the whistle.

Step 6:- Cook on low flame for 60 minutes. after 60 minutes switch off the flame.

Step 7:- Open the lid and take a toothpick and insert the toothpicks into the cake.

Step 8:- If the toothpick is cleaned without sticking to the cake, then the cake is completely formed, otherwise cook the cake for a few more minutes until the toothpick is cleaned.

Step 9:- When the cake is cooked completely, out the pan with the cooker. and cool it down.

Step 10:- Before transfer, the cake to the plate run the knife over the sides of the pan to loosen the cake.

Step 11:- Now turn the pan in the plate, and over and lift the pan carefully.

Now your  pressure cooker cake is ready.