The healthy wealthy cake!

Whole wheat Gulkand and dry fruits cake (Eggless) 

Prep time :20 minutes Bake time: 20-25 minutes Total time : 40-45 minutes

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour - 3/4 cup

Baking soda - 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp
Gulkand - 1/2 cup (a sweet preserve of rose petals)

Unsalted butter / Margarine - 100 g , room temperature

Yogurt - 1/3 cup

Almond extract - 1/2 tsp

Dry fruits - 1/2 cup

Brown sugar - 1/2 cup (if you desire)

Preparation

1. Preheat your oven to 190C/375F
2. Grease a small cake pan and line with parchment sheet (you could use cupcake moulds too!)
3. Mix together sifted whole wheat flour, baking soda and salt 
4. In a mixing bowl, vigorously whisk together the yogurt, butter and gulkand ( if you wish to, add powdered brown sugar into this mixture and whisk)
5. To this mixture almond extract and continue to whisk 
6. Next, add sifted whole wheat flour and mix well
7. Fold in the dry fruits
8. Fill in the greased cake pan up to two thirds and sprinkle a few dry fruits on top
9. Bake for about 24-28 minutes (16-18 minutes if cupcakes) . Do the clean toothpick check and remove when done
10. Let the cupcakes cool in the moulds for about 5 minutes and then on a cooling rack and allow them to cool for about 5 minutes