Friday, November 14, 2008

Honey Cake/Dil Pasand/Dil Khush...

Bangalore Honey Cake, Dil Pasand and Dil Khush

For anybody staying in Bangalore, we all love our good old iyengar bakeries and their goodies. One of the most oldest and favorite bakery product is the Honey Cake and an equally enticing delicacy is the Dil Pasand/Dil Khush.. I am posting this recipe for the benefit of those people who have been searching for these recipes on the Internet, which even included me at one point of time.

So here you go folks. Do try these and it would be great to let me know the results. I have personally tried and tested both the recipes and they come out perfect..

Honey Cake

Note: You can follow any regular white cake recipe for the cake..
Ingredient Quantity
150ml Water
50g Sugar
50g Egg
50g Maida
10gm butter
1/2 T spoon baking powder
1 Tspoon Milk powder
1 Tspoon Vanila Essens........


Honey dip for soaking:
1/ 2 cup fresh honey
150ml water
50ml sugar
25gm coconut powder

In pan boil water with honey, sugar and coconut powder and add 1/4tsp cardamom powder. Boil for 10mines and cool till warm.

Method

Sift the flour.
Add the baking powder and sift the flour again. This makes soda spread evenly in the Maida.
Break the eggs and pour them in a cup. Beat them till the froth color is white. Better if u do it with an egg-beater.
Add sugar and keep beating till the sugar dissolves completely.
Slowly pour the Maida, and as u do, keep mixing to ensure there are no blobs of Maida…
Do not batter it overly. And as soon as the Maida gets dissolved get the batter ready for baking.
I guess u know the baking process. I don't elaborate on that…. Oil the pan, line the bottom of the oven with a waxed paper… oil it again… and then fill it with batter….. Preheat the oven to 350F and bake for around 45mins till the cake is done. Check after every 30 minutes.
After the cake is baked, get it out of the oven and let it cool.
When the cake is done, add this syrup to the entire cake and let it soak for 20-30mins. Cut it and enjoy the Honey Cake.

Tip: Just make sure you adjust the flavor and sweetness of honey and use honey accordingly.

Dilpasand: (serving 4 people)
150Ml Water
250g Maida
150g dalda
10g Salt......

Method: Mix all the above four ingredients to a soft dough like chapatti dough. Cover it and let it sit for an hour.

In a bowl mix.50g dried coconut scrapings, 50gms sugar,50g Cherry frts,50g Dry fruits . Now roll the dough into a thick circle. Dab it either with egg wash or with butter. Add the above mixture and bake it in the oven at 350 for 15mins. Keep checking at 10minutes till it is brown and crispy..


Dilkhush: (Serving 4)

150Ml Water
250g Maida
10g Yeast
60g sugar
10g salt

Mix above ingredients into a dough like chapatti dough and leave it covered for 45minutes-1hr.
For the Masala

For the stuffing
Plum Cake1
Pineapple Essence As desired
Sugar¼ Kilo
Pineapple icing as desired
Coconut grate Grated lengthwise – as required


Mix the ingredients well. Take care that the mix is loose enough just like "alu masala for alu samosa".

3) Prepare a "peda" of thickness u desire out of the dough.
4) Spread the masala on ONE HALF of the peda. Fold the other half of peda sop that it covers the masala. You now have a roti folded in the middle with masala inside!
5) Break an egg. Mix it well in a cup. Take a brush and dab it on the top surface of the bread.
6) Bake the "peda with the mix" for 10 mins. Check if it requires more time. You can check the crust color for that!... to check if it has fully baked, poke it with a toothpick.

10 comments:

lubnakarim06 said...

Suprise Weekend Bonanza waiting for you.

Usha said...

Very interesting, have never tried these...

Kannada Cuisine said...

Hi,
Visiting you blog for the first time.I was googling for Khara Bun recipe that i came across your blog. Just managed to borrow honey cake recipe from my mom last week too!!
Thanks for all the bakery recipes!

Ramya Kiran said...

Hey my husband loves this cake. Thanks for the recipe. Its my husbands birthday tomorrow and i'm definitely going to try this.. Thanks again:)
Cheers,
Ramya

Anonymous said...

You have just made my day!! these are my favorite bakery products and I have been wanting to have these for ages but these are not at all available in UK.
Thanks a lot dear :)

Anonymous said...

I tried honey cake recipe today and was expecting it to be like honey cake in bakery in india. But it was not even close. The cake was flat and dense (more like custard). It was a disappointment.
In the recipe ingredients, there is mention of water, butter but in preparation method, it does not say when to add or how to.. Also it would be helpful if measurements were in cup rather than grams. I hope I can get some tips to get this right next time.

Thanks

Paru ... said...

This recipe was given by a baker from an Iyengar Bakery in blore..Ofcourse as skilled as they are, he was able to measure in gms. Here is the recipe of the cake in cups..Hope this wont be a disappointment. You can follow any white cake recipe for the base cake. Here is one which I followed: Again pls note the 150ml water in the recipe is for the honey soak which is done after the cake is baked..

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
a little more than 1/2 cup milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch. Once the cake is warm, make the honey syrup as stated in the recipe and soak the cake..

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting the recipe with measurements in cups. I will try this again and hopefully it will be like iyengar's bakery honey cake :)

Thanks again!

Lakshmi said...

Nanna mechina bakery dishes recipe kottidakke tumba thanks kanri..onderadu sarti bandidde nimma blog kade avaga update agirlilla..sumaru post miss madkonde naanu.

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