Eggless Vanilla Cake (Tofu as Egg Replacer)

Today I am giving a recipe which I experimented. The recipe is for a cake with egg. I just replaced those eggs with tofu. I prepared this cake for my daughter's birthday. It was a soft cake. As I have given the frosting techniques in another post, I am just giving you the recipe here. Just take a peek into the other post if you want to know about the frosting method. It is a very easy recipe which I adapted from Serious Cakes. The cake uses vanaspathi/shortening. The next time I will try it with butter. I have halved the given recipe.The full recipe will give you a 9" cake.





Ingredients:
Sugar-2cups
Vanaspathi-1cup
Tofu-1/2cup
Milk-1/8cup+1/4cup+1 3/4cup
Buttermilk-1/4cup
Flour-2 3/4cup
Vanilla Extract-3tsp
Baking Powder-3tsp
Soda-bi-carb-1tsp
Salt-1tsp
Simple Syrup-1/4cup (1/2cup sugar+1/2cup water)
Vanilla Butter Cream-2cups (Butter-1cup + Icing Sugar-4cups+Milk-4tbs+Vanilla extract-1tsp)

Procedure:
  1. Powder sugar in a mixer.
  2. Grind tofu and 1/8cup milk to a fine paste.
  3. Mix butter milk and 1/4cup milk with vanilla extract.
  4. Sieve flour, baking powder, soda and salt 3 times.
  5. Beat vanaspathi till soft and fluffy(4minutes). Add sugar and beat it again till fluffy. It is better to use an electric beater.
  6. Add the tofu, milk and buttermilk mixture and beat well.
  7. Now add the flour and 1 3/4cup milk alternately to prepare a smooth batter. At this stage use a wooden spoon and do not beat the batter hard.
  8. Mix it in single direction. You can use the mix and fold technique.
  9. Grease a cake tin and dust it with flour. Preheat oven to 175C.
  10. Pour the batter in the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes.
  11. When a tooth pick inserted comes out clean, remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
  12. Simple Syrup:
     Mix sugar and water and bring it to a boil. Switch off stove and allow it to cool. This is the simple syrup. Drizzle this syrup on the cake to make it moist.
  13. I prepared two small cakes, Drizzled the syrup on both and layered them with a butter cream layer in between.
  14. Butter Cream:
     Beat butter until soft.
     Add the icing sugar and slowly incorporate it into the butter.
    When you have finished adding the sugar, add milk and vanilla extract.
     Beat it for 5-7minutes. The more you beat, the smoother the butter cream will be.
  15. Then frost the cake (for frosting technique click here) and pipe your favorite design on the cake.
  16. Enjoy.


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