Soft Wheat Flour and Jaggery Cake

Eggless Whole Wheat Jaggery Cake

Ever wanted to make a cake with whole wheat flour? Then do check out my easy recipe for soft and delicious Wheat Flour and Jaggery Cake. It’s made with just a handful of simple ingredients, can be whipped up in minutes, and is so easy to make. When you taste this cake, you’ll be amazed that a cake made without maida, egg, butter, or sugar could be this tasty.

Another easy and delicious cake I suggest you make, especially now that we’re in the mango season, is my tasty mango semolina cake. It’s an eggless cake. And I also have a super tasty orange cake made with eggs, and also an eggless orange cake. So do check these out as well.

Ingredients

¾ cup (140g) jaggery powder / grated jaggery

⅓ cup (5 ½ tbsp) yogurt

½ cup milk

1 ¼ cup (160g) whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp baking soda

⅓ cup (5 ½ tbsp) oil

½ tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp water

¼ cup chopped nuts (cashew nuts, almonds)

1 tbsp raisins (optional)

Bake in 7″ round pan for 35 – 40 minutes at 180 C.

Procedure

1. Prepare the baking pan. Grease and dust a 7-inch round baking pan with atta or whole wheat flour, lining just the bottom with parchment paper.
2. Whisk the yogurt in a bowl. Add in the jaggery and whisk again. Add the milk. Whisk till almost all the jaggery dissolves. Set aside.
3. Sift the wheat flour twice along with the baking powder and baking soda.
4. Whisk the jaggery mix again. Add in the oil, and the vanilla extract.
5. Fold in the flour mix.
6. Adjust the batter consistency with a little water or milk. It should have a ribbon consistency.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Tap the pan on the work surface to remove air bubbles.
8. Sprinkle the nuts and raisins across the top of the batter.
9. Bake the cake either on the stove top in a kadai on low heat or in an oven at 180C for around 40 minutes or till a skwer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
10. Place the pan on a cooling rack and let the cake cool a little in the pan for around 15 minutes.
11. Remove the cake from the pan.

Enjoy!