Rasmalai layer cake

Rasmalai layer cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 5 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • seeds of 3-4 cardamom pods

Rasmalai

Icing

  • 75g mawa
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Steps

Cake

  • Separate 5 eggs and start with the yolks.
  • In a mixing bowl whisk the yolks. Once they are light yellow in color, mix sugar and mix it well.
  • Grind the cardamom seeds and mix it with the eggs and sugar.
  • Then add milk and make sure to give it a good mix.
  • Seive flour, salt and baking powder and add it to the rest of the wet mixture.
  • In a separate container, whisk the egg whites till you have stiff peaks.
  • Mix in 1/4 of the whipped egg whites to the cake batter. And then fold in the rest of the egg whites. Make sure to preserve the bubbles as much as possible.
  • Bake it in a 13" x 9" tray for 20 min.

Rasmalai

Icing

  • Store bought mawa is usually very dry and solid. First, we will make a slurry by mixing it with milk in a food processor.
  • Whisk the heavy cream until it forms stiff peaks. One it is ready, mix in 1/4 of it with the mawa slurry. This is done to make it easy for the rest of the whipped cream to be mixed.
  • Now, we need to fold in the rest of the whipped cream mixture with the mawa mixture. Be careful not to overmix it. Try not to loose too many bubbles during the process.

Rasmalai layer cake slice

Assembly

  • Here, we used three layers of cake with 2 layers of rasmalai. Slice the cake horizontally and then cut in half. Use three pieces to contruct the layer cake.
  • Place a layer of cake and slightly drizzle the rasmalai milk. Then apply a thin layer of whipped mawa.
  • For the second layer place the rasmalai and apply a thin layer of whipped mawa.
  • Repeat above two steps again.
  • For the final step, fill a piping bag with the remaining whipped mawa and decorate the top layer according to your choice.