Cake in a Pressure Cooker ( Family Recipe)

Have a dorm birthday coming up? and don't have an oven? or even a microwave? well you can make a cake in a pressure cooker and feed it 5 or more people :) like we used to when we didn't owned an oven ( we stil don't)

This is a recipe by my grandma's sister :D

ignore the decor... i am new at it lol

i hope you like it.

4 eggs

1 cup sugar

250 ml fresh cream thick cream without milk* or you can your thick heavy cream.

2 cups maida sifted (all purpose flour)

1 tsp baking powder

orange zest optional

vanilla essence optional

*( the one which we take out after boiling milk and cooling in it refrigerator. )

incorporate eggs and sugar and blend it on high speed

or you can use icing sugar and eggs.. and mix by hand.. however it will take more time :)

add baking powder into the flour and sift it.. ( i mixed it later too)

please do not perform the following steps in a beater.. it will ruin your cake.

add egg mixture ( hands were washed while i worked in it) in to the flour mixture and mix

please do not perform the following steps in a beater.. it will ruin your cake.

lightly beat the cream so there are no lumps and add it

your batter is ready ( do not over mix)

place a round wax paper inside the pressure cooker

(what i did was that i inverted the cooker on top of the wax paper i draw line around it, leaving a gap of 2 inches.)

you need to cook at very low heat for about 45 min.

a tip

the flame should not touch the base of the cooker ... see the picture

cover the cooker with lid and whistling equipment ( no idea what it's called)

open the lid and use a tooth pick* to check it it's cooked. if it comes out clean it is .. or leave it for another 5 min.. ( don't cook more then 1 hour)

*do not use knife/fork or it will cause cracks like in my cake..

slice in two after it's cold... and decorate it ..

or simply enjoy it with tea coffee :)