Mawa Cake

How do I like my eggs? Ummm..in a cake!!!!

I have many cherished and treasured memories revolving around food. Food can be very evocative. Food nostalgia is an emotion that is so powerful that it can transports you back to the past, connecting you with people and places you hold dear. Memories of a particular dish, food, or flavor can provoke strong feelings of comfort and security, often evoking fond early memories of happy times spent with friends and family.

Mawa cake and wistfulness

One such particular memory I have is of my cousin visiting home with the famous B Merwan Mawa cake. We would always wait for her to come home and open her bag to give us the box of our happiness. The rich, buttery, cardamom cupcakes aroma would quickly engulf the house making us drool and this won’t stop until we dug our teeth into this soft cupcakes evoking all the goodness that a cupcake can hold. Every Mumbaikar would relate to this.

Mawa cake and building new memories

After moving to Pune, my husband introduced me to another gem. The famous and the iconic Kayani Bakery. Known for its traditional Parsi and Iranian baked goods, the bakery is mostly famous for its Shrewsbury biscuits and their mawa cakes.

WHAT IS MAWA?

Mawa is evaporated milk and is an integral part of Indian cuisine. Khoya also known as mawa or khoa or khoya is dried evaporated milk solids. the milk is slowly simmered in a large iron kadai, till all its moisture evaporates and it reduces to solids.

This cake is soft, super moist and so rich in flavor. A Mawa cake is one of classic tea time cake indigenous to the parsi community. As I write this, my mawa cake is in the oven. I am so eggcited…???.The kitchen is filled with exotic aroma of this cake which is making me drool…

This is my take on the classic Mawa cake. This cake is airy, light yet intense in flavour and taste. I have a saudade for the mawa cake made by the Kayani Bakery; hence this recipe is close to my heart.

Mawa Cake

Recipe by Samrudhi MaheshCourse: Dessert, Snacks, cakeCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Easy

Servings

8-10

Slices

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

50

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

Buttery cake infused with cardamom

Ingredients

• 125 grams of all-purpose flour ( Maida)

• ¼ teaspoon baking powder

• 150 grams of Sugar

• 100 grams of butter

• 100 grams Mawa/ Khoya

• 2 eggs at room temperature

• ¼ cup milk

• ½ teaspoon cardamom powder

• Pinch of salt(skip salt if using salted butter)

• Few strands of saffron(optional)

Directions

• Preheat the oven at 180°C or 350°F and line your baking tin with butter paper and oil/butter.
• Warm the milk and add saffron strands to it and set aside. This step is optional.
• To the flour add salt (skip salt if using salted butter), and baking powder and sift it.
• In a bowl, add butter and sugar and beat it till the sugar dissolves, add one eggs at a time beating gradually after each addition. Add the mawa/ khoya and beat again. Do not over beat at this stage; you don’t want to knock off all the air.
• Now add half of flour and mix and then add half of milk and mix. Add the remaining half and mix everything till all the flour is incorporated.
• Add cardamom powder mix gently and pour in a well lined baking tin and bake in a pre-heated oven for 45- 50 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Please check after 45 minutes as each oven is different.
• Cool and serve with a hot cup of tea.

Notes

• You can top this cake with pistachios, cashew-nuts and almond flakes.
• 3.  You can make this in cupcake liners and serve as an individual portion.
• 4.  You can store this cake for 4- 5 days in an airtight container.
• I have baked it in a round tin but you can bake it in a loaf pan too.

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This is my take on the classic Mawa cake. This cake is airy, light yet intense in flavour and taste. I have a saudade for the mawa cake made by the Kayani Bakery; hence this recipe is close to my heart.

WANT MORE TEA CAKE RECIPES?

Please try our easy to make and absolute delightful Hot Milk cake and Blueberry Ricotta Cake.

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