Prep time 15 min | Cooking time 60 min |
Cousine / Course Indian-Sweet | Servings 11 |
Ingredients – Cake
- दही / Curd – 1/4 cup
- साखर / शक्कर / Sugar – 1/4 cup
- तेल / Oil – 1/4 cup
- रवा / सूजी / Sooji – 1/4 cup
- मैदा / Maida / White flour – 1 cup
- बेकिंग सोडा / Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp
- बेकिंग पाउडर / Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
- कोको पाउडर / Cocoa powder – 1/4 cup
- दूध / Milk – 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp
Step 1: Making Cake
Preparing Cake batter
- Take mixing bowl, add curd, sugar and whisk well till sugar melts
- Add oil to the bowl and whisk
- Add Sooji to the bowl, whisk, cover and set aside the batter for 10 min
- After 10 min, sieve flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder together and add to the batter. Whisk well
- Add 1/4 cup milk and whisk batter until milk is mixed with batter
- Repeat the process with another 1/4 cup of milk
- Now add 3 tbsp milk with continuous whisking until you get the perfect cake batter
- Take cake metal tin / bowl, place butter/parchment paper at the bottom to avoid sticking the cake
- Pour batter to tin, spread evenly
Baking cake
- Take large pot with heavy base, which would fit the cake batter tin, add salt to the pot to cover whole bottom, salt helps with even cooking
- Place a metal stand /rack on salt
- Cover the pot and heat it for 10 min on low heat


- Now carefully place the cake batter tin in the this pot, cover and bake the cake for 45-50 min on low heat
- After about 45 min insert a small knife, toothpick in the cake to check if it is cooked, a completely baked cake would not have any batter sticking to the knife/toothpick


- Once cake is ready, demold after 5 min, remove the cake from pot, let it cook down completely before using for Modak
Step 2: Making Modak
Ingredients for Modal
- Crumbled cake – 2 cups
- खोबर / खोपरा / Desiccated Coconut – 1/2 cup
- Mix nuts crushed – 1/4 cup
- Condensed Milk – 3 tbsp
- Ghee for greasing modak mold
Molding Modak
- Take crumbled cake, add coconut, mix nuts, condensed milk and mix well
- Grease mold with ghee, close it and fill with prepared cake mixture,
- Press cake mix in mold, add more cake mixture if needed to fill the mold completely
- Remove the modak from the mold
- Repeat the steps for remaining modaks
Tips
- Whisk cake batter gently in one direction
- Cake is made lightly sweet as sweetness of modak is later balanced with condensed milk
- Mix nut can be made with almonds, pistachios, cashews
