Simple Recipe to make Mawa Cake

WHAT IS MAWA CAKE?

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For the uninitiated, mawa is nothing but milk solids, left behind by heating the milk on low heat for hours until all the moisture is evaporated. This resultant dough left behind is mawa or khoya or khoa- milk solids which are used practically for most Indian sweets and savory dishes like the basic white gravy in Punjabi cuisine.

I’ve shared a few Indian sweet recipes using mawa powder in my earlier posts, like this kesar (saffron) peda, mango mawa burfi, and chocolate mawa peda. In terms of savory dishes, I’ve used little milk mawa powder to make this delicious methi matar malai paneer, cites aromaticessence.

Ingredients

• 500 gm butter
• 215 gm egg yolk
• 450 gm all purpose flour
• salt as required
• 250 gm khoya
• 215 gm yoghurt (curd)
• 5 gm baking powder
• 20 gm dry rose petals
• 600 gm caster sugar
• 5 gm powdered green cardamom
• 250 gm powdered almonds
• 10 ml vanilla essence
• 215 gm heavy cream
• 5 gm baking soda
• 100 gm gulkand