Plain Cake in
Pressure Cooker
I bake cakes in pressure cooker as I don’t have an electric oven.
It is quite easy to bake a cake in pressure cooker. My grandmother and mother
used to bake their earlier cakes in an aluminum cake maker which could be
directly placed on the gas stove and one needed to use sand in the separator of
this cake utensil for uniform heating. The smell of a freshly baked cake is
heavenly. Bake a birthday cake for your loved ones and you are going to be in
their hearts forever.
For baking a cake in pressure cooker, you require a normal
aluminum cooker, and you need to remove the rubber gasket and whistle while
baking. One more important thing is that you need to use a separator to place
the cake tin.
The plain cake used to be made by weight earlier and the
basic recipe used to be 4 eggs and 250 gms each of flour, sugar and butter in
addition to one and half teaspoon of baking powder and flavouring of your
choice. The plain cake flavouring is that of vanilla essence, you may use
cinnamon in addition if you like. Similarly, for citrus flavouring, one needs
to use some juice of the citrus fruit (lemon or orange) along with its rind or
zest. For chocolate flavouring, cocoa powder or drinking chocolate can be used.
Many varieties of cakes are made using various fruits, dry fruits and
vegetables too, for eg date and walnut, pineapple, carrot, banana etc.
I have an Inframatic Cuisinette, wherein the cake is baked
within 8 minutes, but, I am not carrying it along with me during this tenure.
This is the reason for baking cake in pressure cooker. I am sharing the basic
plain cake recipe.
Cakes generally require exact measurements, so it is handy
to keep a measurement glass or a weighing scale.
Ingredients
Flour (Maida) – 125 gms
Sugar – 125 gms
Butter – 125 gms
Eggs – 2 nos
Baking Powder – ¾ th teaspoon
Vanilla Essence – ½ teaspoon
Milk – 1/4th - 1/2 cup
Sal t- A small pinch
Method
Sieve the flour and baking powder together and set aside. Grease
the cake tin/utensil with little butter and dust with little flour. Pre-heat
the pressure cooker on low flame for about 8-10 minutes. Beat butter, sugar and
vanilla in a bowl till the mix is light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well, add
flour to this mix, little quantity at a time and fold in well. Finally, add
milk to the cake mix and pour it in the cake tin. Place the cake tin in the pre
heated pressure cooker and cover with lid without the gasket and whistle.
Baking time is 35-40 minutes. Check if the cake is baked by inserting a knife
in the centre of the cake, if the knife comes out clean, means the cake is
done.
Note – The
cake can be baked in an electric oven that is preheated at 180 degrees
Centigrade for 5 minutes. Baking time of the cake is half hour.
