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eggless gulab jamun with syrup

Eggless Gulab Jamun Cake

Eggless Gulab Jamun Cake is a scrumptious cake with the flavors of gulab jamun (a deep-fried milk-based Indian sweet or dessert soaked in sugar syrup) but without the extra sugar, fat or guilt of eating something tasty but high in calories!!!

Course Desserts
Cuisine American, Fusion, Indian
Servings 10
Author Vanitha Bhat

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup Gulab Jamun mix
  • ¾ cup whole wheat flour
  • ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup room temperature milk
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • ¼ cup oil I have used vegetable oil
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • ½ to 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
  • 2 tablespoons chopped or sliced almonds for garnishing

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Centigrade.

  2. Grease and flour or line with foil and grease and flour an 8X8 inch pan. Keep aside.

  3. First, we have to make the sour milk. In a small bowl, mix the milk and vinegar and let stand for about 5 minutes. You will notice that the milk would have curdled a bit. This is sour milk. You can skip this step and use just milk.

  4. In a large mixing bowl, sift the gulab jamun mix, wheat flour, powdered sugar, salt, cardamom powder, baking powder and baking soda at least once or twice to mix thoroughly. You can use a wire whisk to mix it too.

  5. To the flour mixture, add the sour milk/milk and oil and fold gently to mix thoroughly. Do not over mix or your cake will become dense. We want a light and fluffy cake.

  6. Gently pour into the prepared pan and smoothen the top with a spatula to level the batter.

  7. Sprinkle the nuts on top.

  8. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

  9. Remove from oven and rest in pan for about 5 minutes.

  10. After 5 minutes, remove from pan and place on cooling rack to cool completely.

  11. Serve this delicious and amazing eggless cake with the flavors of your favorite gulab jam guilt-free to your family and friends (after taking a bite of it yourself first!!!).

Recipe Notes

  1. You can use brown sugar or even jaggery (unrefined cane sugar) instead of regular sugar.
  2. I have found that using sour milk instead of regular milk gives a fluffier consistency to many cakes. You can choose to use just regular milk instead.
  3. If you do not like the flavor of cardamoms, you can use 1 teaspoon vanilla essence/extract instead.
  4. Use any kind of nuts and for a crunch in every bite, stir in some nuts in the batter!!!
    For people with nut allergies, you can omit the nuts.
  5. Gulab Jamun mix is basically milk powder with a little flour and baking soda, so if you cannot find readymade Gulab Jamun mix, you can substitute the mix with 1/2 cup milk powder, increase the whole wheat flour to 1 cup and baking soda to 1/2 teaspoon. Comes out amazing too, as vouched for by one of my readers!
  6. This cake can be served without syrup but if you want a more decadent dessert, then make the sugar syrup (as mentioned in my post making Bundt gulab jamun cake) and serve with it.
  7. Enjoy and Happy Baking/Eating!