HOT MILK DRY FRUIT CAKE

Your search for soft and spongy Vanilla dry fruits cake ends here. This is the best basic recipe for simple, fluffy, moist sponge cake with curd and hot milk. Actually this recipe is shared by one of my foody friend Poonam Kothari, who is a master baker from Mumbai. I loved the texture of the cake and immediately tried it. And yes results are awesome. It’s so soft and moist and very happy with the cake. My younger daughter is not very fond of basic cakes but this time she is in love with the cake. Actually the recipe is very simple and require very few ingredients available at home.  This is old fashioned hot milk cake which is very light, perfect sweet and delicious in taste.  You can have it with a hot cup of tea or even can served plain. So give a try for this recipe and enjoy the homemade dry fruits hot milk cake with your family.

INGREDIENTS:

1 Cup Maida / All Purpose Flour

½ Cup Curd/ Yoghurt

½ Cup Sugar

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

½  teaspoon Baking Soda

2 tablespoon Milk Powder

¼ Cup Chopped Nuts

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

½ Cup Hot Full Cream Milk

½ Cup Oil/ Butter

1 tablespoon Sliced Nuts for garnishing

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Mix curd, baking soda and sugar in a bowl.

Whisk it for 5 minutes with hand whisker. Keep it aside.

STEP 2 – Sieve maida, baking powder and milk powder for thrice.

STEP 3 – Mix oil and vanilla essence together.[see notes]

Add this to the curd mixture and combine well with curd mixture.

STEP 4 – Grease and dust the cake tin with maida and keep aside.

STEP 5 – Pre-heat the oven on 180 degrees C for 10 minutes.

STEP 6 - Then gradually add the sieved dry mixture in small batches in the curd mixture.

STEP 7 – Mix well gently and then add milk into it.

Make a cake batter by mixing and add chopped nuts in it and combine well.

STEP 8 – Pour the cake batter in the cake tin

and tap it once or twice on the kitchen platform to remove air bubbles.

STEP 9 – Bake the cake for 25-30 minutes on 180 degrees C in pre-heated oven.

STEP 10 – After 25 minutes, take a tooth pick test, insert a tooth pick in the center of the cake, if it comes out clean, your cake is ready. If not then bake it for few more minutes.

STEP 11 – Allow the cake to cool down for 5 minutes in the oven.

STEP 12 – Now remove the cake tin from the oven, invert it gently on the wire rack. Allow it to cool completely.

 Cut it into pieces and serve it or you can dust little powder sugar on it and serve.

NOTES: If using butter, melt it to room temperature, beat well and then add vanilla essence in it and then add this to curd mixture.