Ingredients:

• Maida Flour – 150 gm
• Sugar – 150 gm
• Butter – 100 gm
• Cashew nut – 25 gm
• Eggs – 2
• Milk – 1/2 cup
• Baking Soda – 2 pinches
• Baking Powder – 1 1/2 tsp
• Colour Powder – 2 to 3 pinches (optional)

Method:

1. Beat eggs separately till it becomes fluffy
2. Powder the sugar well and keep it aside
3. Fry the cashew nuts cool them and grind to form a fine powder. See to that the cashews don’t turn brown while frying.
4. Mix the maida flour, Baking soda, Baking powder , cashew nut powder together and sift 3 to 4 times
5. Mix butter and powdered sugar together till sugar is fully dissolved in butter
6. Dissolve the colour powder in milk
7. Add the beaten eggs , milk and mix well
8. Add sifted flour mixture little by little and mix without forming lumps.
9. If you are mixing using a spoon see to that you mix in one direction just to avoid lumps.
10. Grease the baking pan with butter and pour the batter in it
11. Bake it in a oven for 25 minutes at 190 degree centigrade or till cake becomes light brown.
12. you can pierce it and see using a knife to check if cake is done.
13. Soft and Spongy cashew cake is ready

You can do a simple decoration by just sprinkling coarse cashew nut particles which you have sifted and kept aside.