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Ras Malai Cake slice on a fluted white plate
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Best Rasmalai Cake (Eggless)

An easy, delicious moist, milk soaked cardamom cake with layers of rasmalai topping and rose cardamom whipped cream. It actually has rasmalai in it! This cake can be made either completely homemade or semi-homemade.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 40 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian, indian fusion
Diet: Vegetarian
Keyword: diwali desserts, ras malai cake, ras malai fusion dessert, rasmalai cake
Servings: 16 slices
Calories: 361kcal
Author: Shilpa Joshi

Equipment

  • Whisk
  • One 9X13 Sheet Cake Pan

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup all purpose flour 300g
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder
  • ¾ cups sugar 335g
  • 2 tsp baking powder 12g
  • ¼ tsp salt 4g
  • ½ cup butter or oil or vegan butter substitute
  • ½ tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

Ras malai prep

  • 16-18 pieces rasmalai (store bought) 500g ras malai (I used frozen Nanak ras malai that contained 20 small pieces)
  • ras malai milk keep the milk separate, you will use it in the process

Whipped cream

  • 1 pint heavy whipping cream
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp cardamom powder optional
  • ½ tsp rose water optional - I use Nielsen Massey - it is very strong

Instructions

Bake Cake

  • Mix milk and apple cider vinegar together, set aside
  • Set oven to 350F. Line one 9X13 sheet pan with parchment.
  • Mix dry ingredients together.
  • Add in wet ingredients and mix until combined (don't over mix). Pour batter into 9X13 sheet cake pan.
  • Bake for 23-27 minutes or until baked. Take out of oven and let cool.

Prep ras malai

  • Meanwhile, separate the ras malai from the ras malai milk. Blend the ras malai into a spreadable mixture.
    Ras malai in blender.

Make whipped cream topping

  • Add ingredients to bowl
    Cardamom rose whipped cream ingredients in a steel bowl.
  • Whisk until stiff peaks form
    Cardamom rose whipped cream on a whisk.

Assemble cake

  • Cake layer: Make sure cake has cooled. Cut it half to make two layers. Brush/lightly soak one layer of cake with milk from ras malai.  Don’t soak too much as it will all become mushy. Save extra milk for serving with the cake.
    Rabdi milk soaked cake with a silicon gray brush.
  • Ras malai: Blended ras malai becomes spreadable and frosting-like.  You caneasily spread a layer all over the cake.
    Rasmalai blended and spread on top of cake layer.
  • Cardamom whipped cream: Spread all over on top of the ras malai.
    Topped with cardamom rose whipped cream
  • Add 2nd half of cake and repeat! Garnish with cut pistachios and rose petals.
    Store the extra milk from the ras malai.  When serving you can either drizzle a little milk in the plate or serve the cake slices with pipettes.
    Rose and pistaschios garnished on top of sheet cake.

Cut cake to serve

  • After layering the cake, if you have time cover and let set in fridge for about an hour.
    When getting ready to serve, get along knife and cut of the edges to get clean bakery cake like slices!
    Two layer ras malai cake
  • Then cut into the number of squares/rectangles you would like to serve it in.
    Ras malai cake cut into square pieces.

Notes

For cake: To make a two layer cake I used a 9x13 sheet pan.  I cut the cake in half and layered one on top of the other.  You can make it a one layer cake that is thicker by using the same batter in a square pan.

Nutrition

Calories: 361kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 74mg | Sodium: 305mg | Potassium: 88mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 839IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 119mg | Iron: 1mg