Eggless Vanilla Cake

Ingredients

Maida (all purpose flour) - 200 gms. (2cups)

Butter or Ghee - 80 gms (less than 1/2 cup)

Condensed Milk - 1 cup (200 gms)

Milk - 1 cup (200 gms)

Sugar - 100 gms. (powdered 1/2 cup)

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Baking Soda - 3/4 tsp

Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Preparation Method

Sieve maida, baking powder, soda all together two times and keep aside.
Melt the butter or ghee and powder the sugar.
Take sugar, butter on a big glass bowl and beat them well for 2-3 mns:.
Add condensed milk in the mixture and beat it again.
Keep on adding little little maida baking powder mix into the batter (lumps should not be formed while mixing it). Keep on adding milk to the mixture as per the requirement to get the right consistency.
Add vanilla essence and beat the batter for 2 mns:.
Grease a baking pan and pour the batter to the pan.
Preheat the oven on 180 celcius.
Place the pan in the oven and set the timer for 25 minutes.
Lower down the temperature to 160 celcius after 25 mns: and bake it for 20mns:.
Take a tooth pick and poke to check whether it comes out clean or not. If the mixture is still sticky, then bake it for another 10mns:. Check it again and turn off the oven.
Let it cool down and then separate it from the pan.
Cut the yummy Eggless Vanilla Cake in whatever shape you like and serve it.

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