Rawa Cake (Semolina cake)

I have fond memories associated with this cake, my grandmother and mother used to bake this one when we were kids and we used to love the simplicity of this cake. No baking in the oven or microwaves (of course we didn't have one at that time), Simple but yet very tasty and delicious. My grandmother baked these a few times on our birthday and used to decorate this with icing sugar and butter and she did a great job then. She also added a lot of candid fruits (home-made dried orange peels) and some times gave it a marble effect just by adding some cocoa powder into it while baking.We used to have this cake with cold milk and relish it! Now a days microwave/oven has become skeleton of our kitchen. At least I cannot think my life without one. Here's the recipes for baking on both oven /gas stove! Enjoy

Ingredients

1 cup Rawa (Barik rawa)

1 cup buttermilk

¾ cup sugar (I used brown sugar, therefore the rich brown color, white sugar is absolutely fine)

1 spoon clarified butter (melted)

1 pinch of salt

2 drops of vanilla essence

1 pinch baking soda

2 pinch baking powder
1 tbsp of clarified butter residue ( तूप बेरी) (Optional)

Method

1. Mix the buttermilk, semolina& baking powder and keep aside for 2 hours
2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and place a rack in center of oven.
3. grease a baking tray keep aside  & in the bowl of semolina & buttermilk mixture add the sugar, ghee, salt, vanilla essence & powder into this batter, give it a mix and pour it into the baking tray and bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean
4. I normally bake this cake when I made clarified butter and use the residue in the cake.

Baking on a gas stove

1. Mix the buttermilk, semolina & baking powder and keep aside for 2 hours
2. grease a baking tray & in the semolina & buttermilk mixture add the sugar, ghee, salt, vanilla essence & baking powder into this batter and pour it into the baking tray  and keep the tray on frying pan (or tava) and cover with a heavy plate(or tava) (so that heat is evenly spread)
3. Please heat both the tava's before you star baking the cake. so that heat is evenly spread.
4. bake on low flame for 30-45 minutes
5. you will know the cake is done once a toothpick inserted inside the cake comes out clean, also the whole house will smell heavenly :-)
6.  Allow it to cool before cutting it into pieces.
7. I normally bake this cake when I made clarified butter and use the residue in the cake.

 Check out the cake made by my sister, such a cute looking cake. She added chocochips in the batter.