Ever since I started posting videos, one recipe request has been asked frequently. How to bake cake in pressure cooker? Every one who messaged me wanted to know the technique of baking without oven. During my childhood days, my mom used either a cast iron kadai or pressure cooker to bake our birthday cakes. And she used fine sand inside them which maintains the temperature inside. In ovens whatever temperature we heat them for, it remains constant over the whole baking period. That is what gives the perfect cake.
To create the same environment inside a kadai or cooker, we need some ingredient to maintain the heat. Nowadays, crystal salt is used to fill the base of the cooker. I have even seen some baking even without salt. But I am afraid I may spoil the cooker if nothing is there in the cooker. So I use salt. And due to the higher heat involved, gasket is removed from the lid. Otherwise too much heat will melt it. And one more point to be noted is, you shouldn’t have the whistle on the lid. I once tried it with the whistle. The interior was over heated and the top of the cake turned out black. But without a whistle, it maintains the temperature perfect for cakes and so the cake turned out great. This is a great way of baking cakes if you don’t have ovens or if there is no power and you are unable to use your oven. You can also use it during power cuts.
This is surely a boon to those who want to bake very rarely and don’t want to invest in oven. With this technique, you can bake any cake, cupcake, cookies or breads. Make sure that you use a large heavy bottomed pressure cooker so that the tin can be placed inside with ease without touching the sides or bottom. Everything from mixing the batter and all other steps are same as the usual oven baked cake. Today I will share my oil based red velvet cake recipe to be baked in pressure cooker. I have kept the decoration minimal. Use any frosting you want. As this is oil based, it can be served chilled and so I have used whipped cream to frost. I hope you enjoy my video demonstration. If you like it, please subscribe to my channel. Click Here to subscribe. And also like, comment and share my video with friends.
Makes one 7″ cake
Ingredients:
200ml Cup Measurements
Maida / All Purpose Flour – 1 1/3 cup
Sugar – 3/4 cup
Baking Soda – 1/2 tsp
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – 1/2 tsp
Milk – 1/2 cup
Curd/ Yogurt – 1/2 cup
Oil – 1/2 cup
Vanilla Essence – 1/2 tsp
Tomato Rd Liquid Food Colour – 1 tbs
White Vinegar – 1/2 tsp
Crystal Salt – 400 gm
Procedure:
In a heavy large pressure cooker, add salt and spread it out.
Remove gasket and whistle from the lid and cover the cooker.
Heat on medium flame for 15 minutes.
In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder and whisk until well incorporated.
Add milk, curd, oil, vanilla, food colour and vinegar and whisk to form a smooth batter.
Pour in a greased and lined cake tin and place the cake tin carefully inside the cooker. Place some rings so that the cake tin doesn’t touch the salt.
Cover and set the flame to low.
Bake for 30 – 40 minutes until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
Remove from the cooker and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
Then flip the cake onto the wire rack and allow it to cool completely before decorating it with frosting of your choice.
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Eggless Red Velvet Cake Recipe In Cooker
Ingredients
- 200 ml Cup Measurements
- Maida / All Purpose Flour - 1 1/3 cup
- Sugar-3/4 cup
- Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Curd/ Yogurt - 1/2 cup
- Oil-1/2 cup
- Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp
- Tomato Rd Liquid Food Colour - 1 tbs
- White Vinegar - 1/2 tsp
- Crystal Salt - 400 gm
Instructions
- In a heavy large pressure cooker, add salt and spread it out.
- Remove gasket and whistle from the lid and cover the cooker.
- Heat on medium flame for 15 minutes.
- In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder and whisk until well incorporated.
- Add milk, curd, oil, vanilla, food colour and vinegar and whisk to form a smooth batter.
- Pour in a greased and lined cake tin and place the cake tin carefully inside the cooker. Place some rings so that the cake tin doesn't touch the salt.
- Cover and set the flame to low.
- Bake for 30 - 40 minutes until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the cooker and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
- Then flip the cake onto the wire rack and allow it to cool completely before decorating it with frosting of your choice.
Tried this cooker cake.came awesome,but tasted little salty on top even after trimming .what could be the reason?
Did you use salt in the recipe? It is better to avoid it in cakes..
No I didn’t followed ur recipe ,hence no salt and only the top crust tasted salty.rest was fine
Awesome recipe!
Gayathri can I replace APF/Maida with whaet flour and vinegar with lime juice? And wl the measurements be same?
Thank you
You might have to add a little more of milk. Otherwise it remains the same..
Thank you! Also can sugar be replaced with jaggery or any other sweetner? will the qty be more?
No, take the same amount..
Looks very easy and good. Will be trying this out soon. I would like to try this out in an OTG, how much time should I bake it for in an OTG and at what temperature.
Thank you in advance for taking time to respond to my query and thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
If baking in OTG, bake it at 175C for 30 – 35 minutes.
I bake on gas without salt and trust me nothing happens to your vessel.give it a try once.
Thank you. Will surely try it next time.
What is substitute of red Liquid colour
This recipe works with food colour only.
do we have to add 400 gm crystal salt?
You need to add salt to completely cover the bottom of the cooker. If your cooker is small, then go for a lesser amount.
Hello maam i want to ask something are you useing powdered sugar or normal sugar?
i use granulated sugar
What oil is to be used in this. Please advise
I have used refined sunflower oil.
Hi Mam,
The cake is so yummy looking….nice and simple one……….it is so impressive
Can you tell me this recipe ingredients measurements and time of baking, to make 1/2 kg cake for birthday party……. …?….
Thanks
Use half this recipe and frost the cake to get a 1/2 kg cake
Hi,can we substitute cake flour for maida?
Yes, you can..
I did exactly as u told. But my cake broke apart.. what must have gone wrong
Handling a cake while hot will break it apart. You need to be very careful while flipping the cake and handling it.
decoration please
nice recipe
Can we skip butter and make it with only oil? If so, what are the measurements?
The cake is made with oil only. Please check.
Hello Mam, could you give please tell the ingredients in gms as I have only 250ml cup.
Sure. Here you go
Maida / All Purpose Flour – 175 gm
Sugar – 150 gm
Milk – 100 ml
Curd/ Yogurt – 100 ml
Oil – 100 ml
May I know why baking powder is not used here?
Red velvet texture is made by the combination of vinegar and baking soda. It is tough to recreate it with baking powder.