Tutti Frutti Cake

Step 1

Take a sieve. Keep a mixing bowl below the sieve. In the sieve add the all-purpose flour, salt, cinnamon powder and baking powder.

Step 2

Sift all the dry ingredients.

Step 3

Now add the tutti frutti.

Step 4

Simply mix the tutti frutti with the flour so that they get coated with the flour.

Step 5

Grease a loaf pan with butter and oil and keep aside. You can even line the pan with butter paper or parchment paper. Also preheat oven at 180 degrees Celsius/356 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.

Step 6

In a bowl take sugar and water.

Step 7

Mix the sugar with water till all the sugar granules are dissolved.

Step 8

After all of the sugar has dissolved, add melted butter or oil. You can melt butter in a small pan and keep it ready. With a whisk mix briskly for 2 to 3 minutes till the oil has mixed evenly with the water.

Step 9

Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or scrape half of a vanilla bean and add the tiny seeds in the solution. Mix again well. Keep this sugar solution aside.

Step 10

In another bowl take fresh curd or yogurt, water and vinegar.

Step 11

You can use apple cider vinegar or white vinegar. I have used apple cider vinegar. You can also use lemon juice instead of vinegar. Mix very well.

Step 12

Now add baking soda. Stir to combine so that the baking soda is mixed evenly.

Step 13

You will see the mixture frothing and bubbling.

Step 14

Quickly add the sugar solution to the sifted dry ingredients.

Step 15

Then immediately add the bubbling curd solution.

Step 16

Mix gently to a smooth batter with light pressure from the hands on the whisk. Do not overdo the mixing. You can even fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Tiny lumps are fine in the batter.

Step 17

Pour the tutti frutti cake batter in the greased or lined cake pan.

Step 18

Gently tap the cake pan on the kitchen table top once or twice.

Step 19

Place the cake pan in the preheated oven.

Step 20

Bake the cake at 180 degrees Celsius/356 degrees Fahrenheit in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes or more or less as required. Baking time will vary depending on the temperature conditions in the oven and the size of the oven.

Step 21

Check with a skewer or fork and it should come out clean.

Step 22

Place the pan on a wired rack to cool.

Step 23

When the tutti frutti cake has completely cooled at room temperature, then using a butter knife loosen the edges of the cake. Invert the pan on a chopping board. Gently tap the bottom of the cake pan and remove the cake.

Step 24

Slice the cake.

Step 25

Serve the eggless tutti frutti cake as is or with some milk or tea or coffee. Remaining cake can be refrigerated and lightly warmed before serving.