Sponge Cake without Oven -No Egg Smell Pressure Cooker Sponge Cake Recipe

Ingredients:
Maida / All purpose flour – 1 cup (128gm)
Eggs – 3
Oil or butter – 1 cup
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Powdered sugar – ¾ cup
Lemon zest – 1 tbsp
Lemon juice – ½ of a big lemon
Salt – ½ tsp
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Steps:
Add oil, egg and sugar to a bowl.
Mix well using a hand whisk or electric beater.
(Beat for 10 minutes, if you are using hand whisk)

Lightly grate the skin of the lemon.
Make sure that you don’t grate the white layer below the skin.
It will leave a bitter taste. Set aside the lemon zest.

Sieve the flour and baking powder into the egg-oil mix.
Add in batches and mix using a spatula.
Add salt and mix well.
Add lemon zest and mix well.
Add lemon juice.
Add vanilla essence.

Line a 6-inch baking pan with butter paper/parchment paper.
Mix the batter well and transfer to the pan.
The batter should fall like a ribbon.
The batter should not be more than three fourth of the pan.
Level it with a spatula. Gently tap the pan to get rid of air bubbles.

To bake the cake, heat a pressure cooker with 2 cups of salt. You can reuse this salt for 2-3 times.
Level the salt by gently shaking the cooker.
Heat up the salt on high heat for 5 minutes.

Place an inverted steel plate as a base on the salt.
Place the baking pan on to the base and cook covered without the whistle.
Once the lid of the cooker becomes hot, switch to medium flame (medium-low on the large burner).
Bake for 1 hour 20 minutes on medium heat or until the toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean.
Transfer the pan from cooker and allow it to cool.
Run a knife through the edges and unmould once it cools down.
Remove the butter paper.
Enjoy the vanilla sponge cake!

Notes:
– This can be baked in a preheated oven also at 375°F/185°C. Bake till the bottom and edges becomes golden.

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