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easy eggless parsi mawa cake served in a cake board
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Eggless Mawa Cake

Mawa cake is a delicious Indian tea cake with mawa or milk solids as main ingredient. This is an egg free, super rich, dense cake studded with nuts and flavored with cardamom. This cake is a delight in every bite, not overly sweet, perfect for celebrations like Diwali and easy to make too. Here is how to make best eggless cake with mawa just like the ones from Irani or Parsi bakeries.
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time40 mins
Total Time55 mins
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: mawa cake
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 267kcal
Author: Harini

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

  • 1.25 cups unsweetened mawa at room temperature
  • 1.5 cups milk at room temperature + 2 tablespoons
  • 1/2 cup butter at room temperature, soft not melted
  • 1/2 cup sugar can increase upto 3/4 cup
  • 1 teaspoon rose water
  • few saffron strands optional

Dry Ingredients

  • 1.25 cups all purpose flour
  • 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
  • 1/2 cup chopped pistachios optional

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. Position a rack in the middle of your oven. Grease an 6 or 7 inch round baking tin with baking spray or some butter. Dust with some flour or line with a piece of parchment. Set aside.
    In a medium mixing bowl, sieve plain flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cardamom powder and mix well until well combined. Set aside the flour mixture.
    dry ingredients for cake
  • Take crumbled mawa along with 2 tablespoons milk in a food processor jar and also add a few strands of saffron. Process for a few seconds.
    preparing mawa mixture for mawa cake
  • Next step preparing the wet ingredients. Combine soft room temperature butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. Using an electric beater or paddle attachment of the stand mixer or hand held whisk, beat the sugar butter mixture until light and creamy. Add the pulsed mawa, rose water and mix.
    creamed butter and sugar
  • Now add 1/2 of the flour mixture to wet ingredients and mix. Add 1/2 cup milk and mix. Now add the remaining flour mixture and milk. Mix until combined, do not over mix.
    Mixing wet ingredients with dry ingredients for mawa cake
  • Add roasted and chopped pistachios to the cake batter and fold gently.
    pistachios added to cake batter
  • Pour the batter to the prepared cake tin and tap once or twice.
    batter for mawa cake
  • Place in the preheated oven and bake for 30-40 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. You can also bake bake mawa cupcakes.
    Once done, let the cake cool for 5 minutes. Gently invert the pan and tranfer the cake to a cooling rack. Let the cake cool thoroughly. Slice and serve mawa cake with tea.
    slices of mawa cake ready to serve

Notes

1. Make sure the butter is soft and at room temperature.
2. You can use almonds instead of pistachios
3. You can try the same cake with whole wheat flour

Nutrition

Serving: 12servings | Calories: 267kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 127mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 286IU | Calcium: 60mg | Iron: 1mg