If you wish to try something that tastes like Gulab Jamuns minus no rolling and frying this Cake is for you.
Here I have topped the cake with my always go to Dulce de leche.It is the cherry on the cake. So don't miss it.
Ingredients
Wet mix:
· 1 cup milk
· A pinch of saffron
· 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
· 1/2 cup Sugar
· 1/2 cup flavorless oil
Dry mix:
· 1 cup APF/ Maida
· 1/2 cup milk powder
· 1 tsp baking powder
· 1/4 tsp baking soda
· 1/8 tsp salt
Sugar syrup:
· 1/2 cup sugar
· 1/2 cup water
· 1/8 tsp cardamom powder
· 1 tbsp rose water
Dulce de leche
1 can condensed milk
Instructions
Gulab jamun Cake
Preheat the oven to 160 C for 15 min
Add cardamom powder, and few strands of saffron to hot milk, let the flavours infuse.
Meanwhile add APF, milk powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a vessel and mix well.
Take sugar and oil in a separate bowl and mix well
Now pour the hot milk into the oil-sugar bowl & mix well
Transfer the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl and fold in gently.
In mini bundt tray add little ghee and spread little flour
Transfer the cake batter and tap the pan to remove air bubble
Bake for 15 to 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
Cool the cake for 5 minutes then invert and unmold the cake
Sugar syrup
Add hot water, sugar, cardamom powder, and rose water into a pan and cook on medium heat for 5 minutes.
Mix well in between and cook till the syrup turns sticky, avoid string consistency
Soaking cake in sugar syrup
Prick holes all over the cake with a toothpick or skewer
Gently pour the entire sugar syrup over the cake and keep aside for at least 2 hours or until the sugar syrup is well absorbed in the cake
Prepare Dulce de leche ahead
Immerse a tin of condensed milk in water. Cover the vessel of water and boil the water bath in medium flame for 45 minutes. Keep it closed for overnight in hot water bath. Open the tin next day to make Dulce de leche at home.
Spread the Dulce de Leche on the cake and top it with some crushed nuts.
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