Caramelised Cake
Ingredients :
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Refined flour - 1/4kg
Baking powder - 1/2tsp
Soda powder - 1/4tsp
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3.
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Egg - 4nos
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4.
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Sugar - 1/4cup
Boiled water - 1/2cup
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| 2. |
Butter - 1/4kg
Finely Powdered sugar - 1/4kg
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5.
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Vanilla essence - 1/2tsp
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Method of Preparation: 
Sift the 1st ingredients together. Beat the butter
and powdered sugar, adding the yolks of four eggs one by one to this. Beat well. Mix
it well with the sieved flour.
Heat a thick bottom vessel. Sauté 1/4cup
sugar continuously until reddish brown (do not allow to burn). Add boiled water and remove
from fire when the sugar solution thickens. Allow it to cool.
Beat the sugar syrup. Add it to the cake mixture
and mix well.
Beat the egg white well with the vanilla essence. Pour it into the cake
mixture and beat all the ingredients together. Bake the cake in a preheated
oven at 3500C, for one hour.
Ingredients for icing and decoration:
- Cashew nuts cut into small pieces - 1/2cup
- Sugar
- 1/4cup
- Soda powder - a pinch
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- Icing sugar -
200gm
- Butter
- 100gm
- Lime juice -
1/4tsp
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Method :
Fry the cashew nuts in some ghee and keep it aside.
Make a light coloured sugar syrup (as explained above) in a thick bottom vessel. Add a pinch of soda
powder to the boiling syrup. Add fried cashew nuts pieces to it and pour the contents
into a greased vessel uniformly and leave it to cool. When it is done grind it
coarsely or cut it into tiny cubes. Keep these pieces over the cake before the icing
dries.
For Icing:
Beat the butter and the icing sugar. Add drops of lime juice while beating it.
Apply the icing evenly over the cake.
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