Try This Alia Bhatt’s Pineapple Cake Recipe For Ranbir

About the Recipe

Try this pineapple cake recipe made by Alia Bhatt, especially for Ranbir Kapoor on his birthday. Shivangee recreated the recipe with minute changes according to taste and preferences. Ecobake helps in getting the perfect shape for your cake without any greasing and no need for cleaning afterwards.

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Ingredients

3/4 cup luke warm milk + 2 to 3 tbsp milk & 1.5 tbsp vinegar
1 cup powdered sugar & 6 tbsp oil
1 ¼ Maida & 4 tbsp milk powder
1 + 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp & a few pinches baking soda
400 ml chilled whipping cream
300 gm pineapple slices
Yellow, pink and green food gel

Directions

In a bowl, take 3/4 cup of lukewarm milk, add 1.5 tbsp vinegar, mix and leave it for 10 minutes to prepare buttermilk. Line a 7-inch cake tin with Ecobake baking paper. Mix in 1 cup of powdered sugar and 6 tbsp of oil. Place a strainer over the bowl and add all the dry ingredients.
To give the batter pineapple flavour, add 1 tsp pineapple emulsion and mix everything well to make a smooth batter, then add 2-3 tbsp water or milk to adjust the consistency. To make this cake in a cooker or vessel, transfer the batter to the cake tin, preheat for 10 minutes on low heat, and bake for 50 minutes, or until done on low heat.
To bake it in the oven, bake this cake in a preheated oven at 160 °C for 35 minutes. Check the cake by pricking the toothpick in the cake center. If it is clean, the cake is well baked. Let it cool down properly. To make cake icing, whip 400 ml of chilled whipping cream until stiff peaks are formed.
Place it in the refrigerator until ready to use. In a pan, add 1 heaped cup (300 gm) of pineapple slices, add 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup sugar, and mix well. Add a drop of yellow gel food colour to give it a market-like look. Cook, covered, until the pineapple chunks are soft.
If you want to make pineapple crush or jam, you can add a pinch of cinnamon or star anise to the pineapple. Let it cool down. Once cooled, separate the pineapple chunks and pineapple syrup into two bowls. We'll use this pineapple syrup to moisten the cake. Take it out of the cake tin and divide it into 3 layers for frosting.
Spread a little cream on the cake board, place the first cake layer and moisten with pineapple syrup. Cover with cream and crushed pineapple. Repeat the steps for the remaining cake layer. Smoothen the cake sides with a scrapper and make a pattern with a cake comb. Smoothen the cake top with a spatula.
Prepare some pink and green cream by adding pink and green gel food colours to whipped cream. Both the creams are filled with rose petal nozzles. Create a leafy pattern on the cake side with green cream as shown. Make a flower with pink cream as shown. Give the petals a yellow-cream centre and a shaky pattern.
Make three lovely flowers in the same pattern. Place these flowers on the leaves. Take some neutral gel and add a few drops of pineapple essence and a few drops of yellow food colouring and mix. Fill this gel in a piping bag, make side drips, and fill the white cake top with this gel. Sprinkle some silver sprinklers and the Alia-style pineapple cake is ready.

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Classy Bhava Kitchen

An MBA Lecturer & Personality Development Trainer by profession & a full on food enthusiast. She believes that great food is foundation to genuine happiness.