Mawa Cake Recipe (Eggless & Whole Wheat)
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4.8
Mawa Cake Recipe (Eggless & Whole Wheat)
Description
This Mawa Cake combines whole wheat flour with crumbled mawa, butter, and dairy to produce an eggless cake that has a rich and moist quality. Cardamom powder lends a fragrant note, enhancing the cake’s subtle spiced flavor. The preparation involves creaming butter and sugar, mixing in the mawa, and folding in the dry ingredients along with milk and cream to form a smooth batter. Baking at 180°C yields a tender, evenly cooked cake with a slight golden crust.
The cake’s texture benefits from the fine crumbling of mawa to avoid large chunks, ensuring uniform distribution throughout. It can be made in an 7 to 8 inch cake pan lined with butter and dusted with flour or parchment paper.
This recipe lends itself to making cupcakes as well, and the cake can be refrigerated for a few days. Using fresh mawa and butter is important for the best flavor, as stale or rancid dairy ingredients will impact the taste negatively.
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour - 240 grams or all purpose flour or half-half of both
- ⅔ to ¾ cup mawa crumbled and tightly packed, (khoya or evaporated milk solids) - about 120 to 140 grams
- 1 cup milk whole
- 4 tablespoons light cream - low fat 25% to 30%, swap with 2 to 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 140 to 150 grams butter or yellow butter, unsalted - at room temperature, white
- 1 cup confectioners sugar or 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder or 8 to 10 green cardamoms crushed finely in a mortar-pestle
Instructions
Preparation
- Grease a 7 to 8 inches round pan with butter. Dust some flour on it. Shake and tap the pan so that the flour spreads evenly.
- You can also line the cake pan with butter paper or parchment paper.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius/356 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Grease some butter on the butter paper or parchment paper.
- Crumble the mawa and keep aside. Make sure you crumble it finely as you don't want large chunks of mawa in the cake. You can also grate the mawa.
Making mawa cake
- Take butter and sugar in a bowl or pan.
- Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. You can use a stand mixer, food processor or an electric beater to cream the butter and sugar.
- Add the crumbled mawa and mix very well.
- Then add the flour sieved with baking soda and baking powder directly into the cake mixture.
- Sprinkle the cardamom powder. Pour the milk and cream.
- Fold everything till the flour, milk and cream are incorporated well in the cake batter.
- Pour the cake batter in the prepared cake pan.
- Place the pan in the preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius/356 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, till you see that the top is browned and a toothpick or bamboo skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
- If baking cupcakes, then bake for 20 to 25 minutes or till the tops are browned.
- Allow the cake to cool by placing on a wired tray or rack.
- When cool, slice the mawa cake and serve plain with tea or coffee.
Notes
- You can make cupcakes using the same batter for smaller portions.
- Adjust flour choice: use whole wheat, all-purpose, or a blend for different textures.
- Store leftover cake in an airtight container refrigerated for a few days.
- Ensure the mawa is fresh and sweet; discard if sour or stale.
- Use fresh butter within its shelf life to avoid bitterness from rancidity.
- The recipe can be scaled to prepare smaller quantities if desired.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 10Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 340 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 340kcal | 17% |
| Carbohydrates | 43g | 14% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 16g | 25% |
| Saturated Fat | 10g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 39mg | 13% |
| Sodium | 199mg | 8% |
| Potassium | 99mg | 2% |
| Sugar | 21g | 42% |
| Vitamin A | 490IU | 10% |
| Vitamin C | 0.2mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 136mg | 14% |
| Iron | 1.2mg | 7% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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4.8
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