Food
Mawa Cake
Chef Tushar Tondvalkar Darpan, 25 Jul, 2025
Yield: 16 portions
Ingredients:
- 340 gms mawa (khoa)
- 600 ml milk
- 6 whole eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 600 gms all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 100 gms butter (room temperature)
- 5 gms cardamom powder
- 450 gms sugar
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 325°F.
- Add mawa (khoa), sugar, and butter in a bowl and beat with a hand blender until it's pale and fluffy.
- Mix flour, cardamom powder, and baking powder and keep aside.
- Add all the eggs to the mawa mixture and mix well with a whisk.
- Add ⅓ of the flour to the mawa mixture with ⅓ of the milk, and mix well.
- Add the remaining ingredients, mix well, and make sure there are no lumps in the batter
- Divide the batter into 16 portions.
- Bake it for 20-25 minutes or poke a toothpick to check if the cake is ready.
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