Used to be many moons ago that Bawarchi (an Indian website) was the information center for cooking needs, great recipe ideas and hundreds of recipe contributions. The design and layout of the site was simple, yet pleasing to the eye with no glaring images or advertisement, simple categories and it was very easy to look for recipes. The contributors would provide their email id’s and request for user feedback. So it was in a way very early stage of food blogging.
As a new bride in Boston, with very limited knowledge in cooking I used to visit this site often and try out different recipes. There could have been many more recipe related websites but Bawarchi was huge amongst our friend circle. We used to forward each other the links of the recipes that came out good, discuss them over the phone and thus expand our culinary skills. (Not to forget the phone calls to mothers and MIL’s back home!)
On one such escapade, I had found this easy, eggless recipe for Mango Cake. Bawarchi is now part of Sify and the recipe then moved here (Mango Cake). For a novice baker and cook I found this to be easy, effortless and but with delicious taste. The cake is soft and moist and the combination of mango pulp and cardamom is like a match made in heaven. The taste is more like Mango Suji Halwa/Mango Rava Kesari.
I have also tried this using banana instead of the mango with equally delicious results. I am pretty sure this combination will work with other fruits as well. As the author has suggested this cake can be cut like burfi (diamond shapes) and that helps in easy serving. Even though the original recipe does not call for nuts, chopped walnuts and raisins enhance the taste of this cake.
Ingredients:
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1 cup of Semolina/Rava/Sooji ( I used the fine variety)
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1 cup Mango pulp ( I used ready made Kesar Mango pulp for this/ even fresh mango pulp should be fine)
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1/2 cup Butter (melted)
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1/2 cup Sugar
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1 teaspoon Baking powder
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½ tsp ground cardamom(elaichi)
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¼ cup chopped walnuts, raisins(optional)
Method:
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Note: There is no need to roast the rava/sooji.
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Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.
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Mix the Sooji(Rava) with sugar, cardamom, nuts(optional) and baking powder.
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Next add melted butter and mix well. Finally add the mango pulp and mix again. Let it sit for 10 minutes.
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Place in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes. Be careful and keep a close watch after 25 minutes.
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Check with a fork to see if properly baked. If the knife comes out clean then remove immediately. If it is kept for a longer time, the cake becomes hard.
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Allow to cool completely and then cut and serve.
Gorgeous. Color and flavor is excellent. Kesari Bhath made thicker like cake sounds great to me!
Looks gorgeous RC. I will taste and pronounce delicioys anything with a Mango color.
Same here, Bawarchi was my teacher too. I don’t like it as much after it became part of Sify.
Wow RC Cake looks very delicious..love the color. I love anything with mango. Nice photo
I hardly bake with mango.. just cut and eat most of the time.. Looks pretty. I used to haunt Bawarchi during my early cooking days too
Looks so yumm and colorful..Love the mango flavor in it..Yumm Yumm
U are so right about that combination.. nothing can go wrong in any recipe with that!.. This is a very very different kind of cake… & Supriya i am coming over:-D
Hi Supriya,
This one looks delicious…love the kinda cakes made out of jackfruit n mango!Thanks for the recipe.
TC
What a gorgeous color and delicous eggless cake!
Mango cake sounds delicious.. colour looks very vibrant.
The colour is brilliant. And the way you’ve presented them is beautiful.
I remember looking for recipes on Bawarchi.. All google searches lead to Bawarchi those days. That cake looks extremely delicious and simple too. Will try, my son might light it.
Looks colorful n yummy…love the mango flavor in it!!
Thanks Asha. This has the taste of Kesari bhath albeit a thicker one and softer too. I am so glad I found this recipe there.
Thanks ISG. We are fans of mango too and anything with mango raw or ripe we are toast
Sify does not have that same appeal as Bawarchi isn’t it?
Thanks Trupti. We are mango lovers too and we miss it so much here in the US ;-(
Thanks Laavanya. hah, what can I say. MAybe you can try this once and you will not regret it. Then after that you will eating it as is
Thanks Ashwini. This is flavorful and tasty and amore like Kesari bhat with drier version.
Thanks Soma. Please do come over, my doors are open for you. But the mango cake is long gone, but I can make them for you, they are so easy to make and bake. Since this does not use AP flour but uses Sooji this is different.
Thanks Suparna. Jackfruit cake eh? Now you have me thinking girl. The only sweet jackfruit recipe that I could think was deep fried muliks.
Thanks Cham. The color of the mango pulp was very pretty and that carried over to the cake.
Thanks Madhu. The taste is good too, hope you can give it a try.
Thanks A&N for the kind words. The store brought mango pulp had a great color and that went to the cake.
Thanks Pavani. Good old days eh? I forgot that all google searches used to lead to Bawarchi right? I even used to wait to see the new contributions everyday…it was that good.The cake is light and flavorful.
Thanks Lavanya. So glad you liked it.
Looks so nice…love the pics
This really is absolutely delicious, with the mango season comin in, Iam gonna try this for sure RC. The saree border looks really nice & goes well with the pic. Nice click
OMG, I had tried this one from bawarchi too! Ages ago..it truly is a delicious recipe. I think one Diwali I went nuts and baked up a whole lot of these to give away.
this looks soo good. would love to try.. have pineapples at home. will try with that
I also used to browse Bawarchi regularly. My husband used to call it as Bakkarwadi, I don’t know why! The cake looks awesome RC. Did you use a bread loaf pan?
I’m bookmarking this. No need to roast the rava, right?
Can anything go wrong with Mangoes? Love the colour and the saree and the presentation. Why, why do you have to be so far away?
Wow.. looks yummy.. I will get some mango pulp and give it a try…
Looks delicious and yummy…Eye catching photos.
Thanks Mala. So glad you liked it.
Thanks Deesha. You could try with the readily available Mango pulp if you are not able to find the mangoes. Thanks I love that saree color too. It is an orange Mysore Silk saree
Thanks Bharti. I had bookamrked this long time ago, but forgot about it. I found this lying some where in my old books and decided to try it again. It is a delicous recipe.
Thanks Mahimaa. Now that is the spirit, please do try with pineapples and let me know.
Thanks MAdhuram. Bakkarwadi? Now that is quite a name! You are so right. I did use the loaf pan. But shhhhh…don’t tell Bharti, else she will say that this is a bread
TBC, yes there is no need to roast this. thanks for reminding me, I will update it in the post as well.
Thanks SJ. Sigh! What can I say about mangoes right? Now now now, what are you waiting for? Go to the nearest grocery and go get a can of mango pulp.
Thanks Ujwal.This is definitely worth trying once.
Thanks Pavithra for the kind words. Glad you liked it.
I also used to be a frequent visitor to Bawarchi! Actually I submitted a dal recipe for that site long back. I don’t know if it is still there or not
Mango cake with Sooji is a great idea RC! Looks so pretty and tempting. Love the presentation like a staircase! Did I say your saree behind those cake pieces is so beautiful?
I remember Bawarchi very well – one of the first India centric food websites. Plus you could contribute your own recipes – and I did that too
Thanks for this eggless recipe – another one to make for MIL while she is here, though I must say with my fondness for mangoes, its going to be very difficult to keep some mangoes aside for baking!
Miri
OMG..This eggless mango cake is so adorable.I can’t wait to try this.Perfect for the season.The presentation is also very creative and you have clicked it nicely!
Hum thode din kya absent ho gaye toh bahot kuchh ho gaya! This one looks yum. I like the idea of kesari bath in cake form. Easy to devour!!
I know…I remember Bawarchi being so popular….and now I hardly ever go to that site.
Love the colour of the cake.
RC, even can relate to Bawarchi in the same way..as new bride, for various easy recipes!
The pic looks vibrant n pretty! Tks for sharing!
Ooh, that does look good. I remember visiting Bawarchi long ago in the pre-blog era– they used to have some really good stuff.
Hey RC,
I just made this (without changing your recipe too much). It came out well. Thank you so much for the recipe!
Love the mango cake and the saree. Nice pics
looks yummy and mouth watering!!
I made sheera on Saturday morning and was thinking about how it would taste when baked.
This looks great. I shall try it sometime.
aaah! U made me crave for this so much! I had to go and make sooji halwa and now am back again with a cup! I had to say this cos – we are in the middle of a move and I have such minimal utensils and ingredients – yet where there is a will there is a way they say – u really dont want to know how I made it! But this recipe will be a must try the minute I start cooking in my new kitchen!
oooh thanks a bunch Uma. Now that Bawarchi is moved to Sify, you should be able to find it. I had this mango recipe from Bawarchi and was able to find it on Sify. It is fun isn’t it? I was planning to send my recipe long time ago, but I was way novice then and so did not have the nerve.
Thanks Miri. Jee, you girls are good. So many of you contributed there
I am with you in regards to the mango. But this time I got the pulp from Indian store. we are not getting good mangoes here yet.
Thanks MAdhumathi. Hope you get to try this. It is easy and fun to make.
Thanks Sunshinemom. Kahan ho Aap? Bahut din se dikhayi nahin diye, miss kiya aapko. I love this for the same fact, I don’t have to stand and stir the kesari bhat. I am way too lazy
Thanks Jayashree. ME too, I cannot stand Bawarchi now that it is part of Sify. With so many blog around, that looks dull now
Thanks Purnima. Yeah, I know what you mean. There is so much enthusiasm when we are newly weds and want to show off
Bawarchi was the right stop for that.
Thanks Vaishali. I used to visit Bawarchi every single day and would look for interesting recipes. I had that enthu to try also way back then.
Hey TBC. That was quick and thanks for letting me know. So glad you liked it. Now I know, you love mangoes way too much eh
Thanks Sowjanya. This is one of my favorite saree and recipe
Thanks Avisha. Glad you liked it.
Thanks Raaaga. See I was able to read your mind. You think and I cook, we make a great pair
Thanks DK. You are my kind of girl and I am so poud of you. I would go any lengths to make the sooji halwa. Good luck with the move, girl. Hope you see you soon.
Oh my god! Mango drives me crazy and this one is a keeper. Thanks!
RC, bawarchi was one of the sites that helped me with cooking during initial days
and that mango cake looks beautiful!
SO very true….Bawarchi was the first FOOD WEBSITE (i never knew a term food blog existed till one and half year back)i checked out, and now it has lost its glory since Sify took it up(Thts our darn internet service provider , i can never miss an opportunity to lash them )
The cake looks so lovely and recipe sounds so simple, and a cake without flour(spl. maida) is such a new thing for me to learn
Thanks for sharing this lovely recipe
I absolutely adore this cake..and the colour is so eye catching
I made this mango cake the other day and it was soooooo delicious and sooo easy to make. The longest part was shelling the cardamom and powdering it. The rest was a piece of delicious eggless mango cake:). Thank you for the recipe.
Hi there,
I made this delicious cake yday and it came out very well. My husband was very surprised that I could make such a delicious food… Thanks to you for sharing the receipe. My Mango cake was tasting yummy but the colour was bit dark not like the one shown in the pic…. any idea why it became dark ?
Hi Bhavana,
So glad to know that this came out well and that your family liked it. I have used the Kesar Mango pulp for this recipe and it is light yellow in color. Also if the cake gets even slightly over baked it gets darker color and also hard. Hope this helps.
Hi, I just baked this and cannot stop eating. It’s sooo good. Thank you !
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Hi,
I made this cake and it was awesome. Thanks for posting easy recipes like these that can be put together in a jiffy. Keep up the good work. -Anu
Hi
I hv done eggless cakes using the cup. It did not
turn out well. It wud be good to use the equivalent
gms or oz
I wud like to attend the eggless cake making n lear
the various types of vegetarian cooking. Kindly
inform me if there are any classes conducting this
Hi Mrs. Jega. Thanks for the comment.
I am not sure of the place in India, US or any place else you are looking for egless classes.
Hi
This cake looks very yum.. Do you think I can use strawberries instead of mango pulp.. I have lots of fresh strawberries at home.. And id strawberries can be used , would you recommend any idea for making the pulp, would blending do?
Also how long can this cake be stored and how?
Thanks Yojana. I am sure that strawberries will go very well in this recipe. Blending the strawberries without adding any water should do the trick of making a pulp. I would think you will need more sugar because the strawberries have tartness to them.
Good luck and let me know how this goes
The cake was delicious. It tasted so yummy when it was warm and fresh. But I want to try making this cake again, next time WITH flour. How much flour and eggs should I put?
Thanks Sadaf. Unfortunately I have not tried this with flour and eggs. I usually try to bake goodies eggless way.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mango-Cake/Detail.aspx
RC, I made this over the weekend and it came out very good. My 5 yr old pretty much did everything all by herself..yea it was that simple. Everyone at home loved it. Thx for the recipe.
Thanks Lakshmi for trying this out and letting me know. Glad you like it. It is fun to work with kids isn’t it?
hey, Lovely looking mago cake..! Nice presentation.I want to make this recipie soon.I have a ripe US style mango sitting in the pantry.Can i try this cake with that..? Or do u recommend only using Indian mango or canned mango pulp.Awaiting ur response.Thnks for ur gr8 recipies.
Thanks Meenal for the warm comments. You can definitely make this cake with a ripe US styled mango. I ahve done that many times.
Please remove the flesh of the mango and puree it. That will be your mango pulp. Also I suggest you check for sweetness after you are done making the mix and before you put it in the oven.If it tastes tart, then add little more sugar. Hope this helps. Let me know how it turns out
Thank you so much for ur prompt reply.I will surely give it a try tomorrow..Just one more thing..i have the coarse upma rava in my kitchen.Hope that should work for the cake.Will surely let u know how the cake turned out.thnks again.happy cooking
hey hi,
After looking at the picture..my moth started watering..so i could not resist..so tried this recipe immediately….and wow..it turned out very well….thx
Thanks Shweta for trying this out and letting me know. Glad you liked it.
RC,
I tried this with Apple Sauce and vanilla. It tasted awesome. Thanks for the wonderful recipe.
Also, I reduced butter to just 1 TBS. Still it came out very well. Will try next time with Banana.