sevencup cake

ingredients

1. gram flour / kadalai mavu                          ---- 1 cup
2. butter or ghee                                           ---- 1 cup
3. grated coconut                                          ---- 1 cup
4. milk                                                          ---- 1 cup
5. sugar                                                        ---- 3 cups

preparation method

1. Take a plate & grease the plate with ghee and keep it aside,  fry the gram flour with one teaspoon of ghee.when you get a nice aroma then switch off  the flame.don't let the color to change. Then add the grated coconut.

2. Add the sugar to the pan. Add a cup of milk and mix all the above ingredients in a pan.

3. Finally add the cup of ghee and mix well. Heat the pan and stir the ingredients continuously  by keeping the flame medium to low. keep stirring it.

4.After  10 to 15 minutes the cake starts to leave the sides of the pan without sticking, then that is the right stage to remove the cake from the flame. There will be a formation of forth on the cake mixture and at the same time the cake starts leaving the sides of the pan without sticking, note this  is the right consistency when you need to switch off the flame and then transfer the content into the greased plate, otherwise  the mixture will break into small tiny pieces. pour the cake mixture into the greasy plate.

5. Now level the cake using  a flat spatula so that it is evenly spread ed.  Leave the cake mixture to cool off in the plate. Now using a knife gently put vertical lines. Again cut the cake diagonally so that we get diamond shape cake pieces.