Christmas Plum cake in Pressure Cooker Without Rum – No Butter No Oven- No Beater Episode :820

Ingredients:
Maida / All purpose flour – 1cup {128 g}
Black raisins – ¼ cup
Eggs – 2
Cinnamon powder – ¼ tsp
Nutmeg powder – ¼ tsp
Baking powder- ¾ tsp
Oil – 4 tbsp
Vanilla essence – ¼ tsp
Salt – ¼ tsp

For caramelizing
Sugar – ¾ cup + 2 tbsp
Water – 7 tbsp

Salt – 1 cup (for layering the pressure cooker)

Steps:
To caramelize the sugar, heat a heavy bottomed pan and add sugar.
Wait for the sugar to melt on low heat and turn golden. Keep stirring.
Add water.
Transfer it to a bowl and let it cool.

Add a spoonful of maida (from the 1 cup flour) to the raisins and mix well. This is done to ensure the even distribution of raisins in the cake. Otherwise, the raisins will sink to the bottom of the cake.

Crack in eggs to a wide bowl. Add cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and salt, and mix well.
Sieve flour and baking powder to the egg mixture.
Add oil and vanilla essence. Mix well.
Add cooled caramelized sugar and mix well without lumps.
Add raisins mixed with flour and mix well.

Line the bottom and sides of cake pan with butter paper and grease with oil.

Transfer the cake mixture to the pan. Gently tap the pan to remove air bubbles in the cake mixture.

To bake the cake, add a thick layer of salt to the pressure cooker. You can reuse this same salt for 2-3 times.
Place an inverted steel plate as a base on the salt.
Cover without the whistle and heat up the salt on high heat for 7 minutes.

Place the baking pan on to the base and cook covered on high flame for a minute and then switch to medium flame (medium-low for big burner).

Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Open the cooker and check if the cake is cooked after 30 minutes.

Transfer the pan from cooker and allow it to cool.
Remove the cake from pan once cool!

Notes-
-I used a 6″ cake pan.
-I used vegetable oil.
-You may also add chopped nuts of your choice along with raisins.
-Cake tastes better after 2 days
– It is better to set aside a cooker exclusively for baking.

Other cake recipes:
Plum cake with nuts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBnYjAg_Q8
Chocolate cupcake on stovetop – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8e5KekFBQ4
Microwave chocolate cake – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqR_Uzpg4c
Eggless cake in pressure cooker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8IITseBhlo

Homemade icing and cake decoration tips – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPTkJuPO0g