GULAB JAMUN CAKE | HOW TO MAKE GULAB JAMUN CAKE

Gulab jamun cake 

Gulab jamun cake  is a fusion of normal vanilla cake with famous Indian sweet called gulab jamun. These jamuns are made using milk powder , fried as balls in oil and soaked in sugar syrup . This sweet is mostly everyone’s favourite and also a must go sweet in party menu’s . This gulab jamun cake is made by preparing an eggless basic vanilla cake soaked in sugar syrup  and frosted with whipped cream , finally decorated with these gulab jamuns . This cake gives the flavour of Indian sweet . Friends , please do try this fusion cake and let us know how it turns .

Serves : 8

Ingredients:

For cake :

Buttermilk - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Melted butter or oil - 1/4 cup

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Gulab jamuns with sugar syrup - 8

For frosting :

Whip cream - 1.5 cup

Powdered sugar - 1/4 cup

Rose essence - 1/2 tsp

Recipe :

1. Take a 16 cm round cake mould . Grease it with little oil or butter .
2. Place a parchment paper or dust with  flour .
3. In a bowl , add all the wet ingredients and mix well.
4. Sift the dry ingredients into it and combine both dry and wet.
5. Pour it in the greased cake pan. Tap it before keeping inside the oven to avoid air bubbles .
6. Bake it in preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for about 30 - 35 minutes.
7. Once it’s done , check with by inserting a toothpick or a knife . It should come out clean .
8. Cool down the cake .

For frosting :

1. Beat whip cream , powdered sugar , rose essence until soft peaks . 
2. You can use a electric beater or a hand whisk .

Assembling the cake :

1. Cut the cake into two halves .
2. Cut the gulab jamun horizontally into 4 pieces. Use the inner round pieces for decorating inside the cake . The two end pices could be used to decorate on the top .
3. Before starting frosting , keep parchment papers around the cake so that we could easily remove the extra frosting without getting messy .
4. Spread sugar syrup generously.
5. Above that, place 2-3 tbsp of whip cream and spread evenly.
6. Place the other half of the cake and repeat the same .
7. Cover the entire cake with whipped cream 
8. Finally garnish with chopped pistachios and gulab jamun pieces on top .

Notes :

1. If you need more flavour of gulab jamun in your cake , you can even reduce 1/4th cup of all purpose flour and replace it with gulab jamun mix powder ie. 3/4th cup all purpose flour and 1/4 the cup gulab jamun mix powder .
2. You can also use store bought gulab jamuns for this recipe . If you are using dry gulab jamuns , make sugar syrup by boiling quarter cup sugar with quarter cup of water and few cardamom pods  . Boil until the syrup thickens .