Name: Microwave Plum Cake Recipe
Total time: 13 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Indian

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Sugar

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How to make Microwave Plum Cake Recipe

Chitra

Crawler

Indian

Vegetarian

All purpose flour/maida

Sugar or brown sugar

Vanilla essence

Curd

Cooking soda/baking soda

Baking powder

Oil/60 ml

Lion dates syrup

Water ml

Finely chopped dry fruits n nuts

Orange zest

Heat 1/2 cup ie 125 ml of water in a microwave safe bowl for 1 minute. Put the finely chopped nuts & dry fruits in water and let it soak for 10 minutes.

step 1

In the mean time, sieve maida, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and set aside.

step 2

To the soaked dry fruits mixture, add sugar, oil, curd, vanilla essence, orange zest and lion dates syrup. Mix well till sugar dissolves.

step 3

To this, add the sieved maida mixture & all spice powder. Fold it well in one direction. Cake batter would be slightly thick but pourable. If u feel the mixture is very thick, add 1 2 tbsp of warm water to it and mix well.

step 4

Grease a microwave safe bowl with oil generously and pour half of the cake batter till half of the bowl. Cake will rise till the rim. So you should bake in two batches.

step 5

Microwave in high power for 2-3 minutes (mine is 800w. It took 3 minutes). Please keep an eye after 2 minutes based on the power of your microwave. If u over bake it, cake will burn or the sides will be dry n chewy. Please be careful.

step 6

Remove the bowl after 2 minutes & insert the back of spoon. If the spoon comes out clean or with little crumbs, cake is done. If you see the uncooked batter in the spoon, keep it for another 30 seconds and test it again. If not done, keep it for 30 seconds more. Cook till your cake is done. Remove the cake bowl from microwave as soon as its done and keep it outside for 5 minutes.

step 7

Run a knife all through the sides and loosen it. Invert it in a bowl. Cake will come out easily. Some of the portion might be sticking to the bowl. But thats fine. Serve hot if you like or keep the cake completely covered and set aside for an hour. It tastes the best when served after 1-2 hours as the cake needs some standing time for all the flavour to infuse well. But dont keep the cake open. It will dry soon.

step 8

If you want to make the cake without cocoa powder, do refer the pics below. U will get some idea. Also check out the cake batter consistency which is missing in cocoa version.

step 9

No need to refrigerate the cake. You can keep it outside for 2 days but keep it covered else cake will become dry. (i always store my cake covered with a lid inside the oven after it cools down because that is the safe place to avoid ants).

step 10

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