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Upvas Cake Made with Almond Flour(Falhari) for Janamashtmi

Aanchal Gupta
Instant Badam burfi is shaped into a 'Matki' and decorated with edible food color. Can be eaten while fasting as the ingredients consist of only nuts, milk,sugar and butter.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course cake, Dessert, eggless dessert, Indian Dessert, No bake dessert
Cuisine Indian

Equipment

  • 1 bowl
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 construction paper
  • 1 scissors
  • 1 measuring cups and spoons

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Blanched Almond Flour or any finely ground nut
  • 1 cup Full fat Milk Powder I used Nido brand
  • 4 tbsp/ 1/4 cup/ 1/2 stick unsalted butter
  • 7 oz/200 gms/ 1/2 can Condensed milk

for decoration

  • 1 1/2 cup of Confectioners Sugar
  • 4-5 tsp milk
  • Wilton Gold Color Mist/Shimmering Food Color Spray Edible
  • Wilton Sprinkles/White Sugar pearls Edible
  • Food Color for icing-I used Red and Green
  • Wilton #1 tip for icing-2 nos
  • Parchment paper sharp paring knife,Rolling pin and 2 piping bags

Instructions
 

  • Make a template/stencil of the 'Matki' on construction /chart paper
  • In a pan,put butter and condensed milk and heat on medium, just till butter melts.
  • Add Almond flour and milk powder and mix till warmed up.
  • It will be a thick mass and come together like a soft dough, work quickly.
  • Spread parchment paper on countertop and place dough on it(I greased the parchment paper as well!)
  • Put another piece of parchment paper on top and roll with a rolling pin to flatten out the dough, making sure that you roll out slightly larger than the stencil.
  • Remove the parchment paper and put your stencil on it
  • Use a sharp knife to cut along the edges of the stencil, while dough is still warm
  • Remove the excess dough/barfi from the sides
  • Let the dough/barfi cool completely
  • Once cool, spray with edible gold mist
  • let it dry completely, meanwhile prepare icing

for icing

  • Mix 3/4 cup confectioners sugar with 2-2 1/2 tsp milk in 2 separate cups
  • Make it smooth, if needed add a few drops of milk till you get thick dropping consistency, should not be runny
  • Add food color of choice, fill icing bags and pipe any design of choice

Notes

The base of the cake is made of nuts,milk,sugar and butter and can be consumed during fasting. The confectioners sugar does contain cornstarch, so if you are fasting please use regular sugar for icing or decorate with fruits and nuts.
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