Gluten-Free Besan Cake For Sunday Dessert Cravings
Here’s a super fun recipe for baking cupcakes at home and garnishing them with icing of your choice. Take a look at the recipe here and surprise your family at home.
We all crave for dessert – dessert does not go to the stomach, it goes to the heart. However, the calorie gained from dessert most certainly adds to the body. Sometimes this is the reason which makes us refrain from meeting our dessert cravings. Cakes and cupcakes are most of our’ soft spots. A bite into a spongy cupcake with the frosting of our choice can fix a day or make it better. But the concern of gaining calories from maida makes us worry. What if we told you we have a besan fix to the problem?
Ingredients:
- Sugar Powdered – ¾ cup or 170gm
- Butter – ½ cup or 80gm
- Curd – 1 cup or 250 ml
- Besan – 1½ cup or 180gm
- Baking Powder – 1¼ tsp
- Baking Soda – 1 tsp
- Cardamom Powder – a pinch
- Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
For Chocolate ganache:
- Whipped Cream/Cream – 2cups
- Dark Chocolate – 1½ cup or 250gm
For Butter Cream:
- Butter – ½ cup or 100gm
- Sugar Powdered – ¼ cup or 65 gm
- Whipping Cream/Cream – 1 tbsp or 15 gm
- Vanilla Essence – ½ tsp
Method:
- In a bowl, beat butter and sugar together till it becomes fluffy.
- Then add curd in small amounts and whisk it. Add vanilla essence to the mixture.
- In a separate bowl, sieve besan, cardamom powder, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Then add the dry mixture to the wet mixture in small amounts and use a spatula to combine everything together.
- Grease the baking tins and add the batter to each mold. In a preheated oven at 180C, bake the cakes for 20-22 minutes.
- For making the chocolate ganache, in a double boiler, melt the chocolate and add whipping cream to it.
- Mix everything together and let it cool down. Then transfer the ganache to piping bags and refrigerate it till it reaches the pipeable consistency.
- For making the buttercream icing, whisk powdered sugar and soft butter in a bowl and add cream and vanilla essence to it. Whisk everything together.
- Then, fill the piping bags with the mixture and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Then, garnish the cupcakes with the icing of your choice and serve.
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