MARMALADE CAKE OF RICE FLOUR

Other day I started making cake without realising that I was almost out of white flour in the house. I was left just with barely one fourth cup of it.  It was raining with cats and dogs and I didn’t have any will to step out.  Since I had already mixed eggs and sugar, cake had to be made.  I started looking into my pantry and found rice flour. Thought for a few minutes and concluded that rice flour seems light so let me take a chance. So I made this cake with leftover white flour and rice flour.  I was having a peek in the oven more than usual. Expecting cake to be like a flat bread.  After 35 minutes when I took it out of oven, I was amazed and thrilled to see a beautiful sponge cake. It was fluffy, lighter and tastier.  After that day I decided not to make cake just with white flour, which has the highest gluten content.  Some wise man rightly said: Necessity is the mother of invention.

I am very happy to share with you all, my recipe for the marmalade cake made with rice flour.

Ingredients:

3 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup white flour(maida), 1/2 cup rice flour, 3/4 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp vanilla essence, 3 tbsp orange marmalade. 

Method:

Take a big pan, fill it with hot water. Now take another pan and place it in the hot water Put eggs and sugar in this pan and beat with electric beater (preferably)till it reaches creamy consistency. Take the pan out of the hot water.

Now add white flour, rice flour and baking powder little by little and mix it with a wooden spatula. When well blended add vanilla essence and mix it.

Grease a small cake pan. Pour the mix in it and bake in the oven 180 degree C (300 degree F)for 35 minutes or till wooden stick comes out clean. 

Take it out of oven. After ten minutes, take it out of the cake pan on a wire rack and let it cool off for an hour or so.

Now take out marmalade in a pan, add 2 tbsp of hot water and heat it till marmalade turns little liquid. Pour it on the cake.

 Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.