Cook @ Home Mantra: Eggless Chocolate Cake (In Pressure Cooker)

Do you know Cake can be prepared using our house-hold Pressure Cooker?? Surprised??

Well, here is a recipe to bake Cake in Pressure Cooker, and that too, without Egg!!! This might require a few tries & iterations to get the exact ratios and proportions that fit your flour, cooker and stove. Nevertheless, I can assure you that after a couple of tries you can bake an Eggless Cake as good as those in finest bakeries!!!

Ingredients:

Maida (All purpose flour) - 1 cup
Sunflower Oil or Butter - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp
Hot water - 3/4 cup

Pre-preparation:

If you are using Butter then keep the Butter out for a while to bring it to room temperature.
Add 1 cup common salt to the pressure cooker. Shake the cooker to level the salt particles.
Place a small plate on the salt layer. This is to avoid the cake tin touching the salt.
Pre-heat (simmer) the cooker with salt for 5 mins before adding the cake mixture to bake.
Apply a coat of oil and sprinkle a thin layer of dry Maida flour to all the inner surfaces of the cake tin. This is to avoid Cake sticking to the cake tin.

Procedure:

Mix Oil / Butter, Hot water, Sugar &Vanilla in a bowl and beat until the sugar dissolves.
Mix and swift Maida, Cocoa Powder, Baking powder & Baking Soda to remove any lumps and keep only the fine mixture.
Now add the above Maida mixture to the Hot water mixture gradually , stir continuously to avoid any lumps.
Add lemon juice, stir and pour the mixture to the cake tin 'immediately' because lemon reacts with the baking soda.
Place the cake tin in the pre-heated cooker on the plate above the salt layer.
Close the cooker lid. DO NOT put gasket/rubber and whistle to the lid.
Heat for 25-30 mins on a very low flame.
After heating for 25 mins insert a toothpick inside the cake to check if its baked. The trick is, if its baked properly then the cake will not stick to the toothpick. If there is any cake sticking to toothpick, then bake for another 5 mins and check again. Repeat this until the cake is fully baked. Make sure that you check at various places of the cake using the toothpick.
Once the cake is baked fully remove it from the cooker immediately. Allow it to cool for 15 mins before taking it out from the cake tin.
Use a thin knife to separate all edges of the cake from the cake tin.
Be careful that the cake will be hot even after taking it out from the cake tin. Hence, allow it to cool to room temperature before serving.