MANGO GLAZED CAKE

MANGO GLAZED CAKE

OTHER day I had a craving for a dessert. Had a peek in the refrigerator and found mango but no eggs.  It is very difficult to do the grocery shopping in the days of complete Lockdown due to Covid 19.  That is when I decided to make an eggless mango glazed cake.

Mango is considered the king of fruits in India.  Every region or state in India can boast of a different variety  of mango.  It’s a complete meal in itself because it is loaded with fibrous content.  It is not just great in taste but has innumerable health benefits.  It has antioxidants, helps in maintaining cholesterol level, cleanses your skin and gives it a glow, helps in alkalising body, contains a lot of vitamins and essential nutrients, it boosts the digestive function.  It has vitamin A, thus helps your eye sight.  It helps in strengthening immune system.

With so much to gain I pulled one mango out of the refrigerator to turn that into an appetising dessert.

Ingredients:

 1 large Mango, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/4 cup cooking oil, 1 cup milk, 1 1/2 cup white flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, a few drops of vanilla essence.

Method:

Cut mango into small pieces and in a mixer make it into a purée.

Cook mango purée and half cup of sugar till sugar dissolves and mixture looks translucent. It took me four to five minutes. (If your mango is very sweet variety, you may add just 1/4 cup of sugar. My mango was a bit tart so I added 1/2 cup of sugar.)

Keep this aside to cool.

In the meanwhile, whisk together 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of cooking oil till they become creamy.  Now add 1 cup of milk into this mixture and beat or whisk more. Please make sure that milk is on room temperature.

Now add white flour, baking powder and vanilla essence to the wet mixture and whisk it till mixture is all well blended.

Once your mixture is ready, add 4 tsp of mango-sugar translucent blend into this.

Grease a cake pan and dust it with white flour. Pour the mixture in it.

Bake it for 30-35 minutes in 180 degree C.

When cake is done, let it cool off on the wire rack for two hours.

Pour the translucent mango blend on it. Keep in the refrigerator till it is set.

You may decorate it with some cherries or chocolate or any way you like.

I could not wait to have it so skipped the decorating.