Mango Almond Cake



                               

Mango Almond Cake

Ingredients:
Mango pulp - 1/2 cup
Corn Meal - 1/2 cup (or) White Rava - 1/2 cup
Maida - 1 cup
Almonds - 1/4 cup
Curd - 1/4 cup
Olive oil - 2 tbsp (or)refined/veg. oil
Bkng Soda - 1/2 tsp
Bkng powder - 1 tsp
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Salt - a pinch
Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp
Mango juice - as needed
Yellow food color(optional)
Bread pan or any baking pan

Procedure:
In a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients flour, corn meal,baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl mix pulp,curd, vanilla essence, sugar and a little bit of mango juice(any). Add this to the flour mixture and mix well without lumps.Add the food color. The batter has to be thick like a thick paste or idli batter consistency. You can mix more of the mango juice until you get that consistency like a cake batter.
          Once done, grease the cake pan with some butter or oil. Pre-heat the oven to 370 F in the mean while. Now pour the batter to the pan. It should be a little more than half of the pan and a little little less than 3/4 th of the pan. Now top it with almonds. You can grease the top again with some oil if needed and bake it 20 mints or until its golden brown.
              When done check it with a tooth pick it should come clean. Now don't invert it immediately. Leave it for 5 mints and then apply some mango juice on the top. You can do this either using a brush or spoon. Do pour little by little or sprinkle. This will add some extra taste and also keeps the cake moist. Then leave it in fridge for half an hour.

Garnished with cream, sprinkles and mango slice

                   To serve invert it on a plate and cut the slices. Place the slice in a plate, top it with some cream and sprinkles.