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Cream cake

This cake can also be nicknamed as a desi malai cake.I use the cream which comes on top of full cream milk after boiling and chilling in the fridge overnight.You can easily double the quantity for a larger tin and bake for about 10-15 minutes extra.
     I have packed my egg beater and was in a hurry to make this cake as I had to run some errands.I am sure many of you would wince at the shortcuts I took to make it but trust me the cake has turned out soft like a feather.
      So all I want to say is that if you dont have an egg beater or its out of order you can still bake this cake.
I have used the Indian measuring cup of 200 ml . You can use the American measuring cup for this too...just increase the baking powder to 1 teaspoon and use large eggs.

Ingredients

1.              1 cup chilled  cream

2.              1 cup powdered sugar

3.              1 cup heapful flour (1 level  cup + one fourth level cup to be very precise, if the concept of heapful is not clear to you)

4.              ¾ tsp baking powder

5.              ¼ tsp baking soda

6.              2 eggs

Method

1.              Gently beat the cream and sugar just until dissolved.Do not overbeat as sometimes the cream turns in to butter.Thats one reason I have asked you all to take chilled cream.Another option is to just stir the two together and keep in the fridge for a little while so that they get dissolved.Take it out after  half an hour or so , let it come to room tempertaure say in ten minutes and take the following steps.

2.              Throw in the two eggs and beat with a whisk. sift the flour with the baking powder and soda.

3.              Throw in the flour .I literally did that.Ideally one should add one spoon at a time and gently fold in ....but I just threw in the whole lot of the flour and beat gently with the whisk .
4.      Pour the batter into a small tin and place in the centre of a preheated oven at 180 degree celsius.

5.  Bake for 35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean...maybe  five minute more.

6.  Let the cake come to room temperature before taking it out of the tin.

Now isn't that really really simple.