Amishi 's Kitchen : EGGLESS POUND CAKE

Pound Cakes are cakes which are made of a pound of each of the four ingredients- flour, sugar ,butter and eggs.

Pound cakes were usually baked in a loaf tin or a Bundt pan and are mainy served as tea time cakes.

Though I already have a pound cake recipe with eggs but one of my dear friend who does not eat eggs wanted me to bake an eggless version of it.

So here it is a simple, moist, buttery flavourful Eggless Pound Cake.

INGREDIENTS

100 gms/1 cup All purpose flour (Maida)

1/2 tea spoon Baking Soda

1 tea spoon Baking Powder

115 gms/ 1/2 cup Butter

2 table spoons Powdered sugar

25 gms Corn flour

200 gms/ 1/2 tin Condensed milk (Milkmaid)

150ml/ 3/4 cup Milk

1 tea spoon Vanilla Essence

METHOD

1. Grease and dust a cake tin and keep aside.

2. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees.

3. Sift maida, baking powder, baking soda. Keep aside.

4. Mix butter. sugar and corn flour in a bowl and beat till very light and fluffy.

5. Add condensed milk and beat well again.

6. Add milk and vanilla essence. Mix well.

7. Add half of the maida and beat well.

8. Add the remaining maida and beat well till the mixture is light and fluffy and of soft dropping consistency.

9. Put the cake batter in the prepared cake tin.

10. Bake for 45-50 minutes at 150 degrees.

11. Check with a knife or a toothpick, if it comes out clean the cake is ready. If done remove from the oven or else let it bake for another 5-10 minutes.

12. Once out of the oven, let the cake col in the cake tin for another 5-10 minutes.

13. Now remove from the cake tin and let it cool completely on a wire rack.

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