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My Attempt at Cooker Cake Making

Documented below is my attempt at preparing a cake this past weekend..The results impressed me so much that I felt the need to blog it! :D

To be honest I am not much of a baker and am a complete "newbie" when it comes to cake making..I have prepared it once or twice in the past, and it turned out okay taste wise (NOT shape wise!)

I set out to prepare a cake this Sunday, thanks to the immense inspiration I have been getting from Masterchef Australia of late.. :D Ive never been a great viewer of cookery shows in the past, but Masterchef Australia has always been an exception.. Every series just happens to be better than the last.. and I do love the MasterClasses!

Anyway getting back to my cake, I originally wanted to make a cheesecake (like the one prepared on last week's episode) but had to change plans at the last minute due to lack of a variety of cheeses (and fear that it wouldn't come out right). I then decided to make a simpler vanilla flavoured cake.

I am no Masterchef contestant, so I can safely admit (I hope) that I took help from a little vanilla flavoured cake mix I had at home, and combined it with flour, sugar, an egg, powdered almonds and cardamom, a little oil, milk and cream, all combined together and hand whipped to a fine mixture with no lumps.


I then transferred the mixture to a baking dish greased with butter, after which I placed it in a pressure cooker.. I guess I forgot to mention it-this was a Pressure Cooker cake. :)

You just need to have a little water in the pressure cooker, and there should be a steady stand inside the cooker that separates the baking dish from the cooker bottom. If this isn't done you will end up with a burnt cake. I used two strong metal stands that we use to keep vessels on (forgot what they are called). In the past I used an inverted vessel, and the cake would always end up crooked or bigger at one side and smaller at the other. So I would recommend using a metal stand, preferably two, upon which the baking dish is placed inside the cooker, and with a little water present (again not too much).

I then covered the dish with foil (I prefer it that way, you can even do without it I guess), closed the lid of the cooker, and waited in anxious anticipation...and waited, and waited, and waited... for 30-35 minutes..until I could bear it no longer, and finally opened the cooker lid..

After 5 minutes of cooking it without the lid on and another 10 minutes of struggling to take the piping hot dish out of the cooker (!) and another 5 minutes of letting it rest, I finally faced the moment of truth.. opening the foil... and voila.. the end result is in the pics here!!

I must say, I surprised myself with the way this cake turned out.. I didn't expect it to turn out so well look wise, and in consistency too..it came out so soft and fluffy..and was out of the baking dish in a trice with no bits of struggling on my part!! I guess it would have turned out to be fluffier if I had not covered it with a foil..

While I praise myself a bit about this personal achievement, can I also say, it tasted absolutely heavenly!! Everyone loved it, lemme tell ya.. :D

This successful attempt has inspired me and given me courage..to try out a cooker made cheese cake...hope I succeed! If the cake turns out good, it will find a place on this blog! :D
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  1. DebbyJuly 5, 2012 at 9:31 PM

    Hey wow :D I will also try..I have no one to tell me how to bake it in a microwave and i am too lazy to read the manual :P even i have a vanilla flavoured cake mix at home..just tell me did u use the weight of the cooker? And if u did how many whistles did u let out?

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    1. Leslin S. D'souzaJuly 5, 2012 at 9:35 PM

      weight of cooker? "whistle" of cooker.. :D well i dint let any whistles out..the instructions on the cake mix box said 30 mins so i let it stay on the gas stove for 30-35 mins on medium flame most of the time.. after that i opened the lid and let it cook for 5-10 mins more..

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    2. DebbyJuly 5, 2012 at 10:42 PM

      Thanks a lot dear..will try soon!! :) And did you put a steel vessel inside the cooker?

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    3. Leslin S. D'souzaJuly 5, 2012 at 10:47 PM

      Yes i did..in fact the previous times I tried it out I used to put an inverted vessel under the baking dish..and it always used to result in the cake coming out misshapen..big one side small the other.. this time I used those metal things we use to keep dishes on..don't know what they are called.. :P vessel stand or something..I used 2 one on top of the other.. it kept the vessel steady and perfect..

      Even not putting too much water in the vessel helps..

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  2. DebbyJuly 5, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    Putting water in the vessel??? I thought the water has to be put in the cooker :O Isnt it?

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    1. Leslin S. D'souzaJuly 6, 2012 at 7:28 PM

      vessel I meant cooker itself.. how can u put water in the cake vessel.. :P ul end up getting cake soup then.. :D

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