Almond Cake in a Rice Cooker

Did you know that besides making rice, the rice cooker can be used for alternative purposes like making a cake? Get your ingredients ready because this is quick and super soft.

Here is what you will need:

1 ½ cup flour

3 eggs

5 teaspoons sugar

1 cup milk

2 teaspoons almond extract

Chopped almonds

½ teaspoon baking powder

A pinch of salt

4 teaspoons butter

The preparation time will not take you more than 15 minutes and the cake should be ready in less than 10 minutes in the rice cooker. How about that? You get a cake in less than half an hour and without an oven. But, of course, you can go for a chocolate cake or a vanilla cake, whatever is your cup of tea.

Instructions:

1. Start with grinding your sugar, if you do not have granulated sugar.
2. Take your eggs and separate them into two bowls. Keep one for the egg yolks and the other for the egg whites.
3. Pour in a little bit of that sugar into the egg whites and whisk away until you see foamy mixture that forms stiff peaks.
4. Into your egg yolks, pour in the rest of the sugar.
5. Splash in that milk. Give it a good mix.
6. Dump in that flour into the mixture and mix until that batter is lump free
7. Pour in the almond extract
8. Gently fold in the egg whites mixture and give it another gentle mix
9. Sprinkle in the salt
10. Add the baking powder and another stir
11. Then add in your chopped almonds
12. Take  out your holder of the rice cooker and butter the holder like you would to a baking tray.
13. Pour in your batter and turn it on to ‘cook’
14. Check your cake in around 4 mins. It should be ready around the 8 minutes mark. Do the toothpick test to be sure once you see that the cake has started to rise and pull away from the sides.
15. If the toothpick is clean, turn the rice cooker off and let the cake cool for about 10 – 15 minutes before taking it out.
16. Decorate the cake to your heart’s content.