Easy Children Recipes: SPONGE COOKER CAKE

Saturday, November 22, 2014

SPONGE COOKER CAKE

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cup wheat flour
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter or vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 heaped cup of salt
fistful choco-chips (optional)

METHOD
In a bowl or beater, beat together sugar, egg and vanilla essence. Add vegetable oil and milk. Beat again.

In other bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda and baking powder.

Add egg-oil mixture in flour and fold well.

Take pressure cooker, put salt, cover it and let it become hot on high flame for 5 minutes.

Take cake mould (I used the aluminum bowl available with cooker) and grease it well with oil or butter.

Pour in the batter and add chocolate chips or raisins on the top.

Now put this mould inside cooker with the help of tong or you can use the supporters given with cooker as I did.

Remove the gasket and whistle of cooker. This is very important. Don't forget to take whistle and gasket of pressure cooker.

Close the lid and let it cook for around 45 minutes, can take 1 hour also. Mine was done in 45 minutes.

You can check by piercing knife or fork. It should come out clean.

Remove from cooker. Let it cool down, de-mould and serve.

Pictorial:

1. Beat together 3/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs and 1 tsp vanilla essence till sugar dissolves. You can use wooden spatula for same.

2. Like this. (With hand texture will not be like this, it's ok)

3. Add 1/2 vegetable oil.

4. Add 1/2 cup milk.

5. Beat again.

6. In other bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda and baking powder.

7. Mix egg-oil mixture in it and fold well.

8. Take pressure cooker and put 1 cup salt all over.

9. If you this attachment available with cooker keep or you can keep it directly over the salt and let it become hot on high flame for around 5 minutes.