Bottlegourd/lauki cake

 

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 75 g

Baking powder - 1/4 tsp

Baking soda - 1/8 tsp

Sugar - 1/2 c + Little more

Milk - 1/6 cup 

Unsalted butter - 40 g

Elaichi powder - 1/8 tsp

Vanilla esc - 1/2 tsp

Cashews - 10-12 (broken)

For Mawa:

Milk - 27.5 ml

Milk powder - 28 g

Ghee - 1/2 tsp

Mawa Mix:

Grated bottle gourd - 120 g

Ghee - 1 tbsp

Elaichi powder - 1/2 tsp

Sugar - 2 tbsp

Mawa - 40

Method:

• In a pan add in ghee, milk and milk powder.
• Whisk well.
• Keep this in low flame and whisk.
• Whisk till it leaves edges.
• Now mawa is ready.
• Heat a pan and add grated bottle gourd, sugar and elaichi powder.
• Cook this in low flame.
• Once water is evaporated, add in mawa and cook for few mins.
• Set this aside to cool.
• In a bowl add in flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Add in elaichi powder and whisk well.
• Now in a pan add in butter and sugar and whisk well.
• Now add dry ingredients to this and esc and mix well.
• Now add lauki mawa mix and mix the batter well.
• Now pour this in greased pan.
• Top it with chopped nuts and gently dap it with butter paper.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 180°C for 50-55 mins.

Note:

• While making lauki mawa, I did'nt let water evaporate from bottlegourd.
• And just let it boil for few mins.