Today I am giving a recipe which I experimented. The recipe is for a cake with egg. I just replaced those eggs with tofu. I prepared this cake for my daughter’s birthday. It was a soft cake. As I have given the frosting techniques in another post, I am just giving you the recipe here. Just take a peek into the other post if you want to know about the frosting method. It is a very easy recipe which I adapted from Serious Cakes. The cake uses vanaspathi/shortening. The next time I will try it with butter. I have halved the given recipe.The full recipe will give you a 9″ cake.
Ingredients:
Sugar-2cups
Vanaspathi-1cup
Tofu-1/2cup
Milk-1/8cup+1/4cup+1 3/4cup
Buttermilk-1/4cup
Flour-2 3/4cup
Vanilla Extract-3tsp
Baking Powder-3tsp
Soda-bi-carb-1tsp
Salt-1tsp
Simple Syrup-1/4cup (1/2cup sugar+1/2cup water)
Vanilla Butter Cream-2cups (Butter-1cup + Icing Sugar-4cups+Milk-4tbs+Vanilla extract-1tsp)
Procedure:
- Powder sugar in a mixer.
- Grind tofu and 1/8cup milk to a fine paste.
- Mix butter milk and 1/4cup milk with vanilla extract.
- Sieve flour, baking powder, soda and salt 3 times.
- Beat vanaspathi till soft and fluffy(4minutes). Add sugar and beat it again till fluffy. It is better to use an electric beater.
- Add the tofu, milk and buttermilk mixture and beat well.
- Now add the flour and 1 3/4cup milk alternately to prepare a smooth batter. At this stage use a wooden spoon and do not beat the batter hard.
- Mix it in single direction. You can use the mix and fold technique.
- Grease a cake tin and dust it with flour. Preheat oven to 175C.
- Pour the batter in the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes.
- When a tooth pick inserted comes out clean, remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
- Simple Syrup:
Mix sugar and water and bring it to a boil. Switch off stove and allow it to cool. This is the simple syrup. Drizzle this syrup on the cake to make it moist. - I prepared two small cakes, Drizzled the syrup on both and layered them with a butter cream layer in between.
- Butter Cream:
Beat butter until soft.
Add the icing sugar and slowly incorporate it into the butter.
When you have finished adding the sugar, add milk and vanilla extract.
Beat it for 5-7minutes. The more you beat, the smoother the butter cream will be. - Then frost the cake (for frosting technique click here) and pipe your favorite design on the cake.
- Enjoy.
excellent gorgeous moist cake.adding toffu is new make it healthy
Looks good.
Love the cute and delicious looking vanilla cake! Waiting for the frosting tech.
Amazing colors n deco…
Great job gayathri..
I am loving it:-)
wow what a beautiful cake ..
Super Yummy Recipes
Lovely colours and soft
Such a lovely cake… awards for you gayathri.. please visit my blog to collect them.
looks super…. u r an artist when it comes to baking and icing techniques…. lovely
Reva
Gorgeous and beautiful cake, cake looks extremely moist..
The cake looks so beautiful Gayatri. J/ust perfect for the birthday 🙂
cake looks soooooooooooo delicious…
wonderful and perfectly baked cake.
Gorgeous cake and belated b’day wishes to your daughter.
Wow! Definitely impressive! Looks elegant and beautiful!!! Belated birthday wishes to your daughter!
Lovely icing on the cake.And its eggless.Thank you for the recipe.
I never knew we could make cake with tofu and the cake looks so pretty:)
Waow, the decoration of your lovely cake is beautiful! happy Birthday to your daughter! Very innovative and healthy to replace the eggs by tofu!
loved the cake.. looks awesome.. tofu is a nice twist!
speechless ! gayathri it looks awesome !
Beautiful cake,looks awesome..
Beautiful cake..looks very nice!!
Lovely cake..looks so soft n delicious.
Belated birthday wishes to your daughter, cake looks awesome
Awesome decor,gayathri…The cake luks too good…
belated birthday wishes to Sruti! Cake looks yummy!
Cake looks dam pretty & spongy tooooo, Love the colour combination
Super duper cake.. loving it
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Gorgeous and beautiful cake, cake looks extremely moist..
Gayathri,Happy birthday to your daughter 🙂 I wonder if it was yesterday,Manasi’s is also 7th feb.The cake looks so pretty and girly with the pink icing.It also look so soft and spongy ,I liked the tofu addition(is it a substitute for egg ?) The icing has also come out well:)
One beautiful cake! Loved the deco 😉
Beautiful cake!!!!! ur daughter must have enjoyed it a lot!!! Bealted Wishes to her!!!!!
Superb decoration
Gayathri, Is it possible to get the same results using whipping cream instead of butter.
No, both look different. The textures vary and so the result also varies.
i am ur fan u r great for cooking
superb
Cake looks yummy, though I need couple clarifications. The first one is what kind of tofu have you used and the second one is what size of cake tin have you used.
Hi, There is only one kind of tofu available here which looks like paneer slab. I just crumbled it and measured it. When ground with milk it will become smooth. And I used a 6″ cake tin for the cake. If you double the recipe then you can go for a 9″ pan.
so spongy and wonderful 🙂 you are an expert baker gayathri 🙂
Can we replace the vanaspathi ghee by butter or oil.
Yes, you can.