Pineapple cake(Cooker method)

Introduction:

Today i'm going to share with you another recipe in the series of cakes. This is 'pineapple cake', a yummy delicacy.If you know how to make a basic sponge cake then any kind of cake will be an easy task for you. In this also, rest of the ingredients will be same as my previous posts. Only I'll be using some pineapples and it's essence to give it the pineapple flavour.I'll tell you about the icing on cake in my subsequent posts.

 

Ingredients:

Refined flour(maida): 2 cups

Powdered sugar: 2 cups

Vanilla essence: 5-6 drops

Egg: 3

Unsalted butter: 150 gm

Baking powder: 2 tsp

Canned Pineapple slice: 3

Pineapple essence: 1 tsp

Pineapple juice: 2 tsp

Milk: 11/4 cup

Chopped tuity fruity: 4 tsp

Liquid yellow color: 2 drops

Preparation time: 40 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Method:

Sieve the flour with baking powder 5 times. Seperate egg yolk and white. Beat them seperately till it becomes fluffy. Mix butter and powdered sugar and beat them thoroughly.Now mix egg white first into the butter mixture and add vanilla essence and beat again. Then mix the egg yolk and beat again till the mixture becomes soft. Now add the flour in the mixture while beating continuously. Add crushed pineapple, pineapple essence, tuity fruity, pineapple juice, yellow color and milk into it.Keep beating in the same direction for 8-20 minutes.

Greas the cake tin with butter. Place the cooker on high flame and spread two cups of salt into it.

The idea of using salt is to avoid a direct contact of the cake tin with the flame. Take sufficient amount of salt so that it'll cover the cooker's bottom properly. cover the lid upside down and heat the cooker on high flame for 2 minutes.

Now sim the flame to the lowest. Place the cake mixture into the cake tin and place the tin into the cooker. Cover it with lid and remove the whistle. Cook for 30 minutes on lowest flame.

Open the cooker after 30 minutes. Do the knife test to check whether the cake has been cooked. Take out the cake tin and turn it upside down on a serving plate. The cake will come out. Let it get cooled in the fridge and decorate it with your favourite icing and serve.

TIPS:

1. Whenver you beat the batter, beat it in one direction only.

2. You can also use coarse sand instead of salt for baking the cake but using salt is a more easy option.

3. Do not keep the pineapple outside in open air for long time. Use it immediately otherwise it will turn slightly bitter in taste.

4. You can use fresh pineapple instead of canned pineapple. But caremalise the fresh pineapples before adding into the recipe.

5. You can mix some dryfruits also in the recipe as per your taste.

6. Pineapple juice can be avoided, if you don't have it.