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No Oven Basic Cake on Gas Top – No Butter or Mixer

Clara Karushi
Learn how to make a delicious cake without an oven using just your gas stove or gas cooker. This recipe requires no butter, mixer, or blender. At the end of the recipe instructions is an easy-to-follow video tutorial explaining each step clearly.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine African, American, kenyan
Servings 6

Equipment

  • 1 fairly heavy 7" pan
  • 1 Mixing Bowl
  • 1 Wooden Spoon
  • 2 lids

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsps baking powder
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup cooking oil
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 1 tbsp vanilla essence/ extract (Optional)
  • 1 tsp marge/ fat to grease pan + a little flour to dust it

Instructions
 

  • Step One
    Begin by evenly combining all the dry ingredients in a suitable bowl.
  • Step Two
    In another mixing bowl, add and combine the eggs, the salad oil, the vanilla, and half of the milk with a wooden spoon until well combined.
  • Step Three
    Add the dry ingredients.
    Stir with your wooden spoon or whisk until well incorporated.
    Add the remaining milk, a little at a time, beating the mixture each time to form a smooth paste.
  • Step Four
    Grease a fairly heavy pan, about 7’’ in diameter. Dust it too.
    Pour in the butter.
    You can also swirl the pan on a flat surface to evenly level out the butter while forming a slight well in the Centre.
  • Step five
    Light your gas stove or cooker to full flame.
    Place your butter on the lighted gas stove and allow it on full flame for about 30 seconds just to heat up the pan.
    Reduce the flame to the lowest by turning it slowly in the direction you take the knob when switching off. Reduce it to the lowest flame as shown in the picture.
    *Don’t reduce to the lowest as designed by your manufacturer. The lowest flame as designed for the gas stove is usually too high for your cake. The cake will burn before it’s ready.
  • Step Six:
    Let it bake for 50 minutes to an hour. It could take more or less time depending on your flame and size of your pan. A wider pan (more than 7 inches may take a shorter time and be shorter in height due to the wider surface area. This one baked for 50 minutes.
    A cake tester or knife should come out clean when inserted into the cake.
    You will notice that the top surface will still be a cream color. If this surface is firm with no wet butter, the cake is ready.
  • Step Seven
    I like this cream surface to brown to a gold color even though it’s baked through.
    To do this, turn the cake over onto a clean lid. Now turn it over onto another lid to ensure the top creamy part is facing up again.
    Gently slide the hot pan back onto the cake to invert it back into the pan. The cream top part should now be inverted back into the pan.
    Return the pan with the cake back on to the low flame and let it bake for another 10 minutes to allow the creamy part to turn a golden color.
    After ten minutes, turn it over onto a clean lid or cooling rack.
  • Step Eight:
    Your cake is ready!
    Enjoy your cake cooled with a suitable accompaniment.
    Enhance your hospitality for the glory of God.

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