Are you all out there having fun in and out ? Well, I am. Because first thing first it's a festival month and I am trying my best to make my all time favorite,"Sweeeeeeeeeeets"
..I am one happy girl but then wish I had a sweet making robot or something then I would have been the happiest .One of my secret wishes when I was a child was to marry a Confectioner /Halwayi in Hindi :D so that I could eat fresh home made sweets daily forever..how heavenly life would have been !! Sighhhh ! ...(By the way don't you dare tell my hubby ok otherwise 
hehe..just kidding ..Actually he already knows:P..Hope he is not thinking I wish I knew it before the wedding :O) :P...jokes apart,he would always buy me sweets but then can't buy every day right...well I don't mind but then what if my hubby would think it would be more sweeter if I shift to the sweet store forever..OMG!! How hell ly shoot I mean how not so sweet life would become then ...castaway..
..That's how I realized it's better to learn how to make sweets ASAP .. Hmm.... and after a couple of trials and errors when finally my sweets came out good,that feeling,so ecstatic I was.:)..
So here is a recipe for an Indian sweet called 7 cup cake (I don't get it why it's called a cake ?:O) but it is a famous Indian sweet made up of 7 cups of total ingredients (as always easy to remember for me)especially with chickpea flour,ghee,milk,coconut and sugar.It is a close cousin and light and quick version of another quite famous decadent Indian sweet called ,"Mysore pak".
7 Cup Cake/Burfi/Sweets
Ingredients
Gram Flour/Besan - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 cup
Sugar- 3 cups
Cardamom powder - a pinch (optional)
Grated sweet coconut for garnishing(optional)
Preparation method :
- Grease a plate/cooking tray with ghee and keep it aside.
- In a heavy pan/Kadahi , roast the gram flour with a teaspoon of ghee until the raw smell disappears (5 minutes approx).
- Next add rest ghee,milk,grated coconut and stir well until the batter becomes smooth and lump free on medium flame.
- Add the sugar & cardamom powder and stir well until you can see the batter bubbling.
- Reduce the flame(low) and keep stirring until the batter starts leaving the sides of the pan and becomes a gooey batter hugging to the ladle lol :P.
- Stir for 5 more minutes on low flame.
- Pour the batter on the greased plate/tray.
- Allow it to cool a bit but warm enough to make marks to cut into any desired shape later.
- Now allow it to cool completely and remove cut marked pieces one by one and store airtight.
Note:
- I used my cupcake pan with cupcake liner to get that shape/design and garnished with some sweetened grated coconut as well.
- If the batter after pouring into the greased plate is still runny ,place it in a microwavable bowl and microwave it for another 4-5 minutes and it'll be ready to be cut into desired shape.
Enjoy,
Sending this to cooks joy's Diwali Bash 2013 Event
