Birthday cake is one of the most important things to make a birthday party amazing. Although there are a lot of birthday cake flavors with various frostings available in the market, but baking a birthday cake by yourselves is a nice experience as well as a great birthday gift. Also, it takes very little time, improves your cooking skills, and you get to have delicious homebaked birthday cake without any artificial flavor.
So, this post will answer all your questions like How to make a birthday cake at home without an oven? how to make a birthday cake without eggs? This is my personal birthday cake recipe and the final outcome might seem not so attractive but if you spend some time decorating it, the birthday cake will look finger-licking good.
Also, if you are stuck at home due to the Coronavirus lockdown then you can take inspiration from this post and make a tasty birthday cake on your own. Also, take a look at birthday celebration ideas during COVID-19 lockdown.
Orange Dry Fruit Cake baked with and without an oven
This is a very quick and easy recipe for making a simple birthday cake from scratch without using an oven. if you prefer baking your cake in the oven then you can also use that. For this scroll down the page and start preparations.
Ingredients-
1. All-purpose flour- 1 and a half cup
2. Sugar powder- 1 cup
3. Butter- 1/2 cup
4. Orange juice and zest- 1/2 cup
5. Hang curd ( Thick yogurt) – 1/2 cup
6. Baking powder- 2 tablespoon
7. Baking soda- 1/4 tablespoon
8. Salt- 1 pinch
9. Tutti fruity- 1/2 cup
You can also use dry fruits instead of tutti-fruity.
Method for baking the cake at home (For oven)-
1. Preheat the oven to 350° F(180°C) and grease the cake pot or tin and keep aside.
2. In a large bowl mix butter, yogurt and sugar properly.
3. Add all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in it and mix until it becomes a smooth paste.
4. Add orange juice into the paste and mix well.
5. Now mix tutti fruity in the batter. Remember do not overmix.
6. Finally, pour the batter into the prepared pan/tin and bake for 30/35 minutes.
If you don’t have an oven then don’t worry. You can bake it beautifully in a rice cooker/pressure cooker.
Method for baking Orange flavored cake without an oven (for pressure cooker)-
1. Prepare the batter as described above.
2. Now take a pressure cooker and add a thick layer of salt over the base.
3. Close the lid of the cooker without gasket and whistle.
4. Pre-heat for about 5-8 minutes.
5. After 5-8 minutes open the lid of the cooker and keep a steel bowl carefully over the salt.
6. Keep the pan/tin over the steel bowl carefully.
7. Close the lid of the pressure cooker.
8. Remember you don’t have to put the whistle.
9. Bake for medium flame for about 20-25 minutes.
10. After 20-25 minutes, switch off the flame and check the batter whether it’s properly baked or not with the help of a toothpick.
Chocolate Chip Cake
For making a Chocolate cake
Ingredients-
1. All purpose flour- 1 and a half cup
2. Sugar powder- 1 cup
3. Butter- 1/2 cup
4. Chocolate powder- 4 tbsp
5. Essence- 7-8 drops
6. Baking powder- 2 tablespoon
7. Baking soda- 1/4 tablespoon
8. Salt- 1 pinch
Method (For oven)-
1. Preheat the oven to 350° F(180°C) and grease the cake pot or tin and keep aside.
2. In a large bowl mix butter, and sugar properly.
3. Add all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in it and mix until it becomes a smooth paste.
4. Add chocolate powder into the paste and mix well.
5. Now add essence in the batter. Remember do not overmix.
6. Finally, pour the batter into the prepared pan/tin and bake for 30/35 minutes.
Decorate it with Chocolate chips. if you want to bake this without an oven just use a pressure cooker as we used in the above recipe for Orange flavored cake.
Birthday Cake Decorated with Tutti Fruti
Zebra Cake Recipe
For making a Zebra cake, make a simple cake batter. Divide the cake batter into two equal parts, in two different pans. Add Coco powder into one part and let the other part of the cake batter as it is. Now lay down a layer of simple cake batter, then place a layer of Coco cake batter on top of it and keep repeating this process until both the batters are finished. Now take a toothpick and use to draw a design using two layers of cake batter. You can draw the design of a flower. now, carefully place it in the oven for baking and once it’s done, your Zebra cake is ready to eat.
We will come up with more such birthday cake recipes in the future. If you also need birthday wishes and birthday gift ideas then you can also find these on our website. So, start baking fellas.
