Tea cake / Eggless Tea cake / Pound Cake

 Baking is a passion with me. What is the best recipe, goes on the blog. First I try a recipe and if it works, I make it again for the blog. Some successful as well as tried & tested eggless whole wheat baking recipes from the blog are Tea cake. ❤🌼

Pound cakes are so good, that you can just serve them plain. You don’t need to do any icing or frosting on the cake.fluffy and so delicious. Perfect with your evening cup of tea or coffee. The best thing about tea cakes is that you can save them for at least 5 days which is great. Although once these are baked, it really difficult to resist them.

Ingredients: 

• 2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 handful cashews
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 cup virgin olive oil
• 2 cup caster sugar
• 1/2 cup yoghurt (curd)
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 3/4 cup milk

Method:

preheat oven at 200 degrees Celsius. Take the pan of your choice and grease it with some oil. Dust it with flour evenly. Keep the pan aside. Now, take a large bowl and add yoghurt in it, beat it vigorously till no lumps remain. Next, add baking powder and baking soda in the bowl and mix once again. You can use a hand blender for better results. Keep this bowl aside for 5-8 minutes and let the mixture bubble up.

Once bubbles appear in the yoghurt mixture, add olive oil in the bowl along with caster sugar, butter, milk and vanilla essence, and stir to mix all the ingredients till uniformly blended. Now, add all-purpose flour in batches in the bowl and stir gently till just combined. It is important to add in batches as adding too much at a time will leave lumps. The cake batter is now ready. Pour it into the greased cake pan. Spread it evenly with the help of a spoon and sprinkle the chopped cashews evenly on top. You can use other nuts of your choice and not use any nuts at all if you do not like them in your cake.

Put this pan in the preheated oven and bake at 180 degrees and bake the cake for 35-40 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. When the cake is nicely browned from outside and clean done from the inside, take out the cake pan and let it cool. Once it comes down at the room 

temperature. Gradually loosen the edges of the cake and remove it from the pan. Cut into clean slices and serve warm or cold with coffee or tea.

Happy baking❤

Love 

Shatakshi