WALNUT CAKE

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 15

Ingredients:

1 cup maida(refined flour)            

4 eggs

1 cup coaster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
5-7 drops vanilla essence
1 cup or 100 gms refined oil
a handful of walnuts 
butter paper in the shape of baking tray (optional)


Method:

1.Sieve maida along with baking powder,salt and baking soda two to three times.
2.Switch on the oven (OTG) for preheating at 200* CG or 400* F.
3.Break the eggs in a bowl and beat them with a blender.
4.Mix oil and sugar and blend it till the sugar desolves completely.
5.Mix beaten eggs mixture with oil sugar mixture.
6.Add one after one spoon of maida mixed with baking powder in the above mixture using cut and fold method with a wooden spoon(do not use blender now) .
7.When the batter is ready add essence and mix with light hand.
8. coat the walnuts with 1 tsp of maida by dusting dry maida on walnuts. 
9.Grease the baking dish,set the butter paper in it and pour half of the cake batter. Now spread the walnuts coated with maida and then pour rest of the batter.spread some more walnuts coated with maida on top of tthe cake. 
10.Bake it for 10 min.s at 180*CG or 350*F and and after that for 25-30 minutes at 150* or 300* F.
11.Check it with knife if it is not baked completely then bake it for 5 more minutes.
12.Let it cool and then bring it out of the container and the cake is ready to be served.