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Rasmalai cake:Rasmalai Cake base

Rasmalai cake 🎂

Rasmalai cake is a light and airy dessert. The ingredients are not much and heavy, as it only involve milk, dry fruit and saffron, apart of the basic baking ingredients, the cake is light to eat not just on occasions but during the usual days of craving as well.

If you aren’t aware of rasmalai, let me first familiarize you with this decadent Indian dessert. Rasmalai is Indian dessert consisting of flattened, spongy cottage cheese cakes dunked in thickened, sweetened milk flavored with saffron and cardamom. Like most Indian milk-based desserts, this one is super addictive.

Ingredients


How to make cake base ingredients:- 


• 1.5 cup  all purpose flour


• 1/2 cup milk powder


• 2 tbsp corn flour


• 1 tsp baking powder


• 1/2 tsp baking soda


• 1/4 tsp salt


• 3/4 cup yogurt curd/dahi. use fresh and thick yogurt.


• 1/4 cup milk Plus 2-3 tbsp extra


• 1/2 cup oil any flavorless oil


• 1/2 cup sugar


• 1 tsp cardamom powder elaichi powder


• 1/2 tsp saffron strands optional


Whipping cream for decoration


• 600 ml heavy cream


• 2 tbsp icing sugar


• 2 tbsp cornflour


• 1 tsp cardamom powder elaichi powder


• 1/4 tsp saffron powder or yellow color


 Cake decoration ingredients:-


• 1/2 cup flavored milk I have used the flavored milk that is served with rasmalai


• 12 rasmalai


• 1/4 cup pistachio slivered


• 1/4 cup almonds slivered


• few saffron strands for garnishing


• Rose petals 

How to make rasmalai cake:-


 • Sift the  all purpose flour, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cardamom powder for three times.


• Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl and keep aside.


• in a big bowl add oil, sugar milk powder. Mix well with hand whisk till sugar dissolves.


• Add milk and yogurt. (The milk and yogurt should be at room temperature).


• Whisk everything well till smooth.


• Gradually add the sifted dry ingredients in batches. Add saffron strands.


• Mix everything gently. Add more milk about 2-3 tbsp more if needed.


• The batter should be of dropping consistency.


• pour the batter in the greased and dusted round tin and bake in the preheated oven @ 180 C for 35-40 minutes. Remove the cake after baked.


• unmould and let it get cool on a wire rack. The cardamom saffron flavored wheat flour cake is ready.


Whipping the cream for decoration:-


Take the chilled bowl. Add chilled heavy cream in it. With the help of electric beater beat for 4 minutes on low speed till soft peaks are formed.


• Add icing sugar, cornflour, cardamom powder, saffron powder and beat on low speed till everything is mixed well for 4-5 minutes.


• Beat on medium heat till stiff peaks start to form. Stop beating and cover and refrigerate the cream for 30 minutes. 


Decoration of the cake :-


• Take the cake.With the help of knife cut the uneven top of the cake and make it straight. Also cut the cake from half and make two layers.


• Put some whipped cream on the plate or board on which the cake is to be served. Invert the top layer of the cake on it. Soak it with 4-5 tbsp of the flavored milk.


•  Break the rasmalai into small quarters and place it evenly on the soaked cake layer.


• Put the chilled whipped cream in the piping bag fitted with the nozzle of your choice. Now pipe the whipped cream on the cake layer.


• With the help of palette knife spread the piped whipped cream evenly.Place the other layer of the cake on it and soak it with 4-5 tbsp of flavored milk from rasmalai.


• Pipe the whip cream entirely over the sandwiched cake.Spread the whipped cream with the help of palette knife or flat spatula.Smoothen the edges of the cake.


• Now sprinkle the slivered pistachio and almonds  on the edges and sides of the cake as shown. Pipe some round stars on the cake and place pieces of rasmalai on it. Put a round rasmalai ball on the centre of the cake. Garnish with saffron ,rose petals . The decoration of the cake is complete and refrigerate the cake.


• Remove the cake before 15 minutes from the refrigerator before cutting. The Eggless Rasmalai Cake is ready to serve and cut into slices.




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