Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Badam Cake

Badam Cake/ Badam burfi - preparation time 45 to 1 hr
My regular deepawali sweet dish because even if we cannot cut cake we can serve this as halwa :-). During first time it came bit sticky which I corrected by stirring for few more mins with some water sprinkled.

The Badam(almond) is costly but we can make It in little quantity and eat. When you buy badam cake or halwa in sweet shop it will be very costly. For this diwali surely try this sweet dish and enjoy. We don't require much sugar also ( as we use for mysurpa) and ghee is required only to coat the plate.


You can make the cake thin so that people won't waste the sweet. Badam cake will be rich in taste and also good for health. For festival occasion like diwali surely you should make this sweet, share and enjoy the happiness.


Hope this sweet dish will get into your deepawali snack list. Mom used to make cashew cake but I prefer badam as it contains less cholesterol when compared to cashew. Also for cashew cake you have to add little more sugar because of the slight bitter taste which will be present in cashews.



We went to friends home last week. I thought instead of getting sweets why don't prepare in home, so that it will be special. I decided and made badam cake. To my surprise it came out well. I made this sweet for deepavali but this time it came better when compared to that. I thought of sharing this to you all. This recipe is easy and can be made with little amount of ghee.

Ingredients:-

Badam paste - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 or 3/4 cup
Water - 1 cup
Saffron - 1/4 tsp
Turmeric - pinch
Ghee - 3 tbsp


Preparation method:-
Soak the badam for 1 hr and peel of the skin. Soak the peeled badam for another 1 hr. Grind this to paste (little fine than rawa/sooji but, not to very soft paste).

In a heavy bottom pan boil sugar with water. This should be one string consistency.

Add the badam paste and stir continuously.

Soak the saffron in i tbsp of hot milk and crush so the milk changes to beautiful yellow color. To this add the turmeric.
Mix this with the badam and stir continuously.

Meanwhile coat a plate with ghee and keep.
When you keep stirring the bubble will be slightly white. At this stage add 2 tbsp of ghee and stir.
Transfer this to the ghee coated plate and cool this plate in water so it will become hard.

In a knife coat the ghee and make to cake when it is bit hot.
Yummy home made badam cake is ready. Enjoy this healthy snack. You can use less sugar also.

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