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Lemon cake-No oven, No maida-Pressure cooker method-How to make-Step by step photos

By Gunaselvi Sridher

Cuisine Style : India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 50 minutes | To Serve : 4 | Type : New year, christmas special, Snacks | Take with : Tea

This is unique, simple, instant, homemade & my version of no fail spongy lemon cake without oven. I made it using my 5 ltr pressure cooker. I didn't add salt or sand in pressure cooker. Most successful method is initial pre-heating pressure cooker before baking/cooking. I didnt use artificial colours. For colour i used turmeric powder & For fragrant i added vanilla and cardamom powder.

This is super soft because of baking soda and egg. You can make it without egg or flourless. You can add almond powder, coconut powder or oats powder instead of flour. Flaxseed, tofu, paneer, khoya also best for cakes. You can replace butter with oil. For milk you can replace it with coconut milk, condensed milk, oats milk, cashew milk or almond milk. You can repalce egg with apple-sauce, flaxseed egg, cahew or almond butter.

Pressure cooker lemon cake for christmas

Dry Ingredients

All purpose flour / Wheat flour - 1.5 cup
Cocoa powder- 1/4 cup
Salt- 1/4 tsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1 tbsp

Wet Ingredients

Milk- 250 ml
Egg- 1
Melted butter- 1/2 cup
Coconut oil- 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Lemon juice - Juice of 2 whole lemon or 1/4 cup

Preparation

Take 5 littre pressure cooker.
Remove gasket & whistle from the pressure cooker lid.
Then place grid.
Preheat pressure cooker for 5 to 10 min on medium flame.
In a bowl All purpose flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda mix well.
In a bowl add melted butter, milk, coconut oil, egg, vanilla essence, lemon juice, turmeric powder, cadamom powder & sugar mix well.
Add wet ingredient to the dry mixture mix well
Add milk to adjust the consistency.
Grease baking tin with butter and sprinkle flour.
Pour batter into a baking tray/baking tin
Place it on pressure cooker grind.
Close lid & bake it for 45 to 50 min on low to medium flame.
Once its ready carefully remove baking tray then un-mould & let it cool.
Slice and serve with jam/butter.

Note

Before baking in pressure cooker remove gasket & whistle.
You can replace milk with coconut milk, almond milk or oats milk
If you dont like egg you can add melted dark chocolate, curd, buttermilk, banana or avocado
For white molten lava cake you can skip cocoa powder
For red velvet lava cake add roasted beet puree.
For saffron lava cake add hot water soaked saffron.
For frosting you can make buttercream frosting using softened butter, powdered sugar, milk & vanilla
For lemon frosting add 2 tbsp lemon juice
For chocolate frosting add:- Softened butter, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, vanilla & milk
You can add lemon curd
For oreo frosting:-Softened butter, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, crushed oreo. beat all well with or without electrical mixer. pour into piping bag, squeeze over the cake, evenly spread then add colour sprinkles, flowers, fruits, edible glitters, candies or biscuits.
You can make blueberry, strawberry cream cheese frosting for different flavour
For saffron frosting add saffron soaked milk.
For caramel butter cream frosting:-Caramalize sugar, cream, butter,milk
Butterscotch frosting:- Brown sugar/ palm sugar, butter, condensed milk or cream