Recipe : Idli Cake Recipe | Super Easy Tri Colour Steamed Idli Cake Recipe Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Recipe Category: Cake Serves: 8 Idly Cake

Ingredients :

Maida | All Purpose Flour - 1 cup Baking Powder - 1\2 tsp Cooking Soda - 1\4 tsp Unsalted Butter - 80 gm (room temperature) Powdered Sugar - 1\2 cup Egg - 2 no (room temperature) Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp Orange Food Colour - few pinch (optional) Green Food Colour - few pinch (optional) For Butter Icing:  Unsalted Butter - 50 gm (room temperature) Icing Sugar - 150 gm (+ or -) Milk - required Blue Food Colour - few pinch (optional)

Method :

Preparation: Grease and dust the one or more idli pan plate with butter and flour, keep aside. (Image 1) Sieve the flour with the baking powder and cooking soda for 2 to 3 times, keep aside. (Image 2)

Steps To Make The Steamed Idli Cake: To make the cake batter, beat the butter and sugar till light. (Image 3 and 4) Beat in the egg, one by one until combined. Then add the vanilla essence and beat little. (Image 5 and 6)

Now gently fold in the sieved flour mixture till combined. (Image 7 and 8) Divide the batter into three equal parts in bowls. Mix the orange and green into two bowls, and leave the third bowl for white colour. (Image 9) Spoon the required orange batter, white batter and then green batter on the prepared idli pan plates. (Image 10)

To steam, boil 3 cups of water in a idli pan and arrange the idli plate. (Image 11 an 12) Cover and steam for 20 minutes over medium flame. Test the idli cake by inserting a knife at the center, it should comes out clean, else again steam for 5more minutes. (Image 13)

Cool the idli cake in the plate for about 5 minutes, then de-mold by running a knife at the edge and cool completely. Then slice the each idli cake horizontally into half and keep aside. (Image 14) Meantime, to make the butter icing, beat the butter and the icing sugar into creamy with required milk. Then add the food colour and beat well. (Image 15) Finally sand witch the idli cake with some butter icing and ready to serve. (Image 16 and 17)

Serving Suggestion: Serve the steamed idli cake with honey and ice cream. Other: Steamed Butter Scotch Cake in Pressure Cooker, Cake pops with paniyaram pan. Page: Collection Of Cake | Cookies | Pudding Recipes, Home Page.

By Kalais