Shahi Rabdi Cake

Name: Shahi Rabdi Cake
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 10 - 15 serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 200 gm All-purpose Flour; 250 ml plain yoghurt; 2 Eggs; 165 gm granulated sugar; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 125 ml oil (Any smell less oil is recommended); 1/4 tsp vanilla essence; 50 gm crushed mixed Dryfruit; 1 litre full fat whole milk; To taste Sugar; 15-18 saffron strands; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 100 ml sugar water; 400 ml Whipped Cream; as needed drops pink food color; handful Sprinkles; as needed Fondant(sugar paste) for making edible things

Nikita Choithani @Chef24

It's Rakshabandhan and who doesn't love to dig in creamy malai rabdi. Thought to give this Indian Sweet a twist with a Cake. Made this special Indian Fusion Cake - Shahi Rabdi Cake for Rakshabandhan Celebration.

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Nikita Choithani @Chef24

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 mins

10 - 15 serving

For Vanilla Cake Base
200 gmAll-purpose Flour
250 mlplain yoghurt
2Eggs
165 gmgranulated sugar
1/2 tspbaking soda
1 tspbaking powder
125 mloil (Any smell less oil is recommended)
1/4 tspvanilla essence
50 gmcrushed mixed Dryfruit
For Rabdi
1 litrefull fat whole milk
To taste Sugar
15-18saffron strands
1 tspCardamom powder
For Icing
100 mlsugar water
400 mlWhipped Cream
as neededdrops pink food color
For Decorating
handfulSprinkles
as neededFondant(sugar paste) for making edible things

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Steps

1 hour 30 mins

1

For cake base - Take a 8 inch round cake mold and grease entire mold with oil or melted butter using a brush.
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Sprinkle some maida over the surface and tilt the mold in all directions so the maida covers the greased surface. Line the mold with butter paper.
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Sift 200gms all-purpose flour in a large bowl. Add 250 ml plain yoghurt and 165 gms granulated sugar in another bowl.
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Mix well with an electric beater and add 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp baking powder.
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Mix well again and let the mixture sit idle for 5 minutes. As the baking soda starts to react with curd, bubbles will start to appear on the surface.
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Add 2 eggs, Add 125ml oil (use less strong smell oil eg. Sunflower Oil) & add 1/4 tsp vanilla essence and mix well.
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Now add previously sifted flour, mix well with electric beater until smooth.
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Add this cake batter in previously greased cake mold. Place it in Microwave for 35 minutes at 180°C.
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Remove the mold from Microwave, insert the toothpick in the center to check whether it is fully cooked or not. If it's not cooked properly then keep it for another 5 minutes.
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Let it cool for 15 minutes and then run the knife on sides and remove the cake on the cake board or any serving plate.
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For Malai Rabdi - Take 1 litre full fat milk in a kadai & begun to heat the milk on a low to medium flame, till the milk starts to froth or form a layer of cream/malai on top.
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So when you will see the cream floating on top, then with a spatula, gently move the cream layer.
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And bring it towards the side of the pan and stick it to the pan.
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Keep on simmering the milk like this and collecting the cream layer on the sides and sticking it to the pan.
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This process of collecting the cream has to be done many times. Continuous simmering of the milk will bring the cream on top and you have to bring & stick it to the sides. In between also stir the milk gently on occasions, so that the milk does not get burnt from the bottom.
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Here the milk has reduced to half about 30 minutes later. And you will see the layers of cream collected on the sides has thickened also.
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Once the milk reduces to half, then add 3 tbsp sugar. You can add sugar as per your taste.
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Then add a 15 to 18 strands of saffron, which have been crushed and ½ tsp cardamom powder. Stir gently.
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The cream layer will be collected on the sides. Scrape off the entire cream layer as well as dried milk solids and add to the thickened milk.
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Keep stirring gently and now till it is reduced to 1/3rd quantity of 1 litre.
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For Icing - Take the whipped cream and with help of electric beater start whipping the cream, till it gets stiff peeks.
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Take a knife cut the cake horizontally in half. Place one layer of cake sponge on plate and sprinkle some sugar water to keep the cake moist.
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Now apply this icing cream and add a layer of malai rabdi and some crushed mixed dryfruits.
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After this cover the cake with another layer of cake and apply the icing cream and cover the whole cake.
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You can also design the cake borders using the pipping bag and cake nozzles. Add some sprinkles on top and decorate it.
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Refrigerate the cake for around 4 hours. Once the cake is completely chilled now we can work on fondant part.
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For fondant- I have used ready to use sugar paste (fondant) of various colors - green, yellow, red, purple, orange, white.
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All the things - Rakhi, Thali, Gifts are edible and hand made without any fondant molds.
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It's time to Celebrate Rakshabandhan with your family with this delicious Malai Rabdi Cake.