Butterfly Inside Cake
Butterfly Inside Cake is another surprise cake. It reveals a great butterfly pattern when sliced. A cake layer is baked and butterflies are cut out of it. Then those butterflies are then baked again with another batter. Read on to know the detailed process.
Servings: 1 loaf cake
Ingredients
- 1½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup yogurt homemade curd or buttermilk
- ¾ cup sugar granulated
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 6-7 butterfly shaped cake slices
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 °F. Grease and line a loaf pan. Sift flour 2-3 times.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugar and yogurt for 5 minutes on high speed. Add baking powder and baking soda, beat in on low, and allow to stand for 3 minutes. You will find that bubbles appear. Beat in the oil and vanilla extract to the curd mixture. Slowly add the flour in 4 lots, blending in well after each addition. Pour ¾th of the batter in a piping bag.
- Pour remaining batter in the prepared pan. Place butterflies in upright position about 1 cm apart, pipe the batter in and around the cut shape. Bake at 200 °C for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to 170 °C and bake for 35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake for 30 minutes and then overturn onto a plate. Wait for at least 2 hours before slicing it, else it doesn't slice neatly.
Notes
- You can use any cake of your choice to cut desired shapes using a cookie cutter. My daughter specifically wanted butterflies so I used a butterfly cookie cutter.
- You can invert the cake by using vanilla slices for the inside and outside batter as chocolate or use the colored batter for shapes and vanilla for the outside. Options and your creativity are limitless here.
- I used oil for my cake.
- Like a quickbread, it is best to slice the cake the next day.
- I have realized that the baking time in OTG & convection microwave ovens may vary. I bake in the convection mode of my Microwave and hence timing is according to that. eg this cake takes 25 minutes after reducing temp 170°C in the convection mode, but it takes much lesser in OTG. So please monitor time-based on the appliance you are using.