HOME MADE CAKE

Ingredients

Plain flour - 1 and 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 1
Refined oil or plain butter - 1/2 cup
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method
Mixture Preparation

1. Beat the egg very well until it becomes lighter and looks like double the original quantity. (As you do while making omelet)
2. Mix sugar and oil together and stir them pretty hard till the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
3. Add the beaten egg to this mixture. Mix well to blend all ingredients thoroughly.
4. Now prepare a mixture of plain flour (Maida) and baking powder and sieve it to avoid any lump.
5. Now gradually add this Maida mixture, to the batter prepared by mixing sugar, oil land egg.
6. Add Vanilla essence to the batter and again blend thoroughly.
Cake Preparation

7. Grease the baking tin (or cake tin) with oil and dust it by sprinkling maida over greased surface evenly.
8. Pour the mixture into the greased baking tin.
9. Heat the pressure cooker on high heat for 2 minutes.
10. Now put the cake tin containing the cake batter, inside on cooker dish.( Do not put water inside the pressure cooker)

11. Close the cooker lid and do not put the whistle on the lid. Lower the flame from high to low after 2 minutes.
12. Let it cook for 40 minutes, then switch off the heat. Do not open the lid immediately.
13. After 10 minutes open the lid to check whether the cake is done. Put a skewer inside the cake.

14. If the mixture will not stick on it, means that cake is done.
                                                                By:JANAKI CHOUDHURY