PINEAPPLE CAKE

After trying my hands on so many simple cakes, I have been wanting to make a pineapple cake for quite some time. So here I am sharing my delicious eggless pineapple cake recipe and this can be served any time of the day and for any occasion. These days there is no celebrations without cakes. I have made basic vanilla cake in pressure cooker. Who says you can't make cake without oven?? You can make easily cakes in pressure cooker that too a crunchy exterior, soft and spongy from within.This recipe will help those who do not have OTG or oven in their kitchen. So baking cakes in pressure cooker is the other option. We loved the cake and hubby and daughters drooled over it ate almost double cake than everytime he eats demanding to make more such cakes. Infact they didn't realized that it is oven made or pressure cooker made. Here in my recipe I am going to share step-wise series for your better understanding. Always follow the instructions such as pre-heating of cooker, about using gastket/ whistle while baking cakes in cooker which I share in the end of the recipe.  So do try it and let me know how you like it and don't forget to read the recipe and my notes thorouhly before setting out to make this dessert. Celebrate any happy moments with your homemade pineapple cake or make it without any celebrations and enjoy.......!!
 

INGREDIENTS:

For cake:

170gms. All Purpose Flour /Maida

170gms. Powdered Sugar

70gms. Cake Constant Powder[see notes}

10ml. Cake Gel

250ml. Water [see notes]

20gms. Melted Butter

2-3 Drops Vanilla Essence

For assembling the cake:

15-20 pieces of Tinned Pineapple

1 Cup Sugar Syrup

1 Cup Pineapple Crush

1 Cup Whipping Cream
Cherries/ pineapple slice/ sprinkles for garnishing.
2-3 tablespoon Natural Glaze
2-3 Drops of Liquid Yellow Colour

For sugar Syrup :
1 Cup Luke Warm Water
2 tablespoon Sugar

METHOD:

Baking Cake:

STEP 1 – Take Maida, sugar, constant powder in the bowl. Add water to it and mix it well.

STEP 2 – Mix the batter with the beater and simultaneously add vanilla essence and melted butter to it. And mix it well for 2 minutes.

STEP 3 – Grease the mold with butter and put the butter paper in the pot.

STEP 4 – Lastly add cake gel and give a nice stir.
STEP 5 - Pour the batter in the pot and bake for 5 minute at high and then for 25 minutes on low flame. [see notes]
STEP 6 - Cool the cake in cooker for 5 minutes and then remove from cooker and demold the cake.
STEP 7 - Let it cool completely.

Make a sugar sryup:

STEP 1 - Mix sugar in water and dissolve completely. Sugar syrup is ready to use. keep this aside.

For Assembling :

STEP 1 – Cut the cake properly in three round slices.

STEP 2 – Then take one piece/ slice of cake and pour sugar syrup over it using a spoon..

STEP 3 – Generously spread whipping cream evenly over it.

STEP 4 – Then add pineapple crush over it.After that add pineapple pieces.

STEP 5 – Then repeat the same procedure with the second layer.

STEP 6 – Finally spread whipping cream over the top layer and from sides too.

STEP 7 – Fill the whipping cream in a piping bag and decorate the cake with flowers, leaves and sprinkles as per your liking designs.[see notes]
STEP 8 - Top it with some pieapple chunks or cherries. Cake is ready to serve.

Cut it into slice and enjoy.

NOTES: *You can add 1 teaspoon baking powder abd 1/2 teaspoon baking soda instead of cake constant.
              *Use water as required. Don't add whole water at a time. Add it slowly as required.
              *Garnishing is according to our choice.
              *Some important Points to remember while baking in a pressure cooker:
              *Use a good quality, heavy and thick bottomed 5-6 litre cluminium cooker.
              *Keep this cooker, only for baking only. Do not use this cooker for pressure cooking anything, as the metal weakens.
              *Remove the gastket [rubber ring] and the whistle from the cooker lid before you close the cooker with lide.
              *Cook on slow flame.
              *Before proceeding with the recipe, do check if the baking pan fits inside the pressure cooker.
              *This cake yields a small cake enough for a family of 3-4. 

Pre-heating of Pressure Cooker:
As we pre-heat in oven same manner we should pre-heat in cooker. How do we pre-heat in a cooker?? Just place the empty cooker on a medium heat with no whistle and no rubber gasket. Just cover the lid and let it pre-heat for 10 minutes. You might get some burnt smell but no worries. It is perfectly fine. Once the cooker is pre-heated place a seperator and with help of tongs place the cake pan over the stand.