Winter are here and so are the cravings for comfort foods which are usually sweet and along comes the worry of counting calories and watching your weight. We’ar sharing a simple recipe for you to make healthy atta cake at home with jaggery powder or shakkar. This recipe is also suitable for vegetarians as it tells you how to prepare an eggless wheat cake with Jaggery Powder instead of refined sugar.

Benefits of making a whole wheat jaggery cake – 

• Cuts out refined flour or maida which is not easily digestible.
• Cuts out refined sugar which causes instant spikes in blood sugar.
• No use of egg, so it is suitable for all.
• Atta cake made with jaggery satiate cravings for a longer time as the sugar release is slow and gradual, which means lesser sacking.
• Atta and jaggery add nutrition thus you can avoid consuming empty calories.

Wheat Jaggery Cake Recipe: 

To make a whole wheat cake with jaggery powder you will need only a few ingredients which are usually available in all Indian households.

• Preparation Time – 10 mins
• Baking time – 40 – 50 mins
• Total time  – about an hour.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour – 1 cup
• Baking powder – ¼ teaspoon
• Vanilla essence – 4,5 drops
• Butter –  ½ cup of unsalted butter or ghee
• Curd – ½ cup
• Jaggery powder – ½ cup or a little more as per taste

Preparation of your new favorite atta jaggery cake:

• Sieve the whole wheat flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl.
• In a mixer jar add butter and jaggery powder and mix well.
• Add the curd to this mix and let it mix for another minute. If the mix is too thick you may add half a cup of milk and mix well.
• Add this mix to the sieved whole wheat flour and whisk well.
• Add vanilla essence and mix well again.
• Pour this atta jaggery cake batter onto a dusted baking pan.
• Place the pan in a preheated oven. Bake at 180 degrees celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for 45 minutes to 1 hour. 
• Not all ovens work similarly, so while baking please double check. Keep a time span of 30 minutes to 1 hour for baking this cake. You can check after 30 minutes if the cake is done or not.
• Also please do not open the oven door until ¾ of the cake is done. 

Your Wheat Cake With Jaggery should appear golden brown on top and when you insert a toothpick or wooden skewer in the atta cake, it should come out clean.

Let the whole wheat cake cool completely, before you serve it.

You can enjoy your wheat jaggery cake as a tea time snack or a post meal dessert.

When you make an eggless atta cake with jaggery powder it stays good at cooler room temperatures for 2 to 3 days. When refrigerated your atta jaggery cake should be good to be eaten for about a week.

Whenever you try to make this cake at home with jaggery powder do let us know how it turned out?

We do hope you find our  jaggery powder cake recipe easy to replicate.