Litchi loaf cake with whole wheat flour and oats.
A very easy to make, soft and delicious litchi flavoured cake. Perfect to serve with tea or coffee or enjoy with ice cream.
I have wanted to make a cake for this week’s bloghop. But this whole week I was at Kanpur. Returned home at Saturday night. I had no idea what to make. My husband bought some juicy litchis today. Litchi is easily available in this season. And its one of my favourite fruit. So I used these sweet juicy litchis in my cake.
I born and raised in Bihar. And I remember the best litchi I have tasted there from Muzaffarpur.
Muzaffarpur in Bihar is famous for it’s litchi production. Muzaffarpur is known as litchi kingdom because of it’s shahi litchis.
Lychee is a wonderful fruit with plenty of health benefits, including its ability to aid in weight loss, protect the skin, boost the immune system, prevent cancer, improve digestion, build strong bones, lower blood pressure, defend the body against viruses, improve circulation, and optimize metabolic activities.
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Whole wheat flour and oats are always a healthy option to make cakes.
You can get some different flavoured eggless oats Whole wheat flour cake here. Click on the name below to get the recipe.
Eggless Sugarless Dry Fruit Cake
Sending this post to 145th #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is #cakes.
The recipe of this cake is similar to pineapple cupcake that I shared earlier. But no its not gluten free. I have changed the flour. Made the cake with oats and whole wheat flour. You can use all purpose flour if you want. Or if you don’t like oats omit it and use 1 & 1/2 cup whole wheat flour or all purpose flour. Or mix of both flour. Choice is yours. Cake will be delicious with any flour. Or you can use any gluten free flour.
I have used fresh litchis in this cake. You can use canned litchi if you don’t have fresh litchi.
Pistachio is optional. You can frost your cake or sprinkle powdered sugar over the cake with a sieve.
Recipe
Whole Wheat flour or atta – 1 cup
Oats powder – 1/2 cup
Cornflour – 2 tablespoon
Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
Baking soda – 1/2 teaspoon
Condensed milk – 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoon
Oil – 1/2 cup
Milk – 1/4 cup
Vinegar – 1 tablespoon
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
Litchi juice – 1/4 cup or as require
Chopped litchi – 3/4 cup
Chopped pistachio to garnish, optional
Method
1. Preheat the oven at 180° for 10 minutes.
2. Grease a loaf pan and dust with flour. Or line with parchment paper.
3. Mix 1 tablespoon vinegar in 1/4 cup milk at room temperature and keep aside.
4. In a bowl sieve whole wheat flour, oats powder, corn flour, baking powder and soda.
5. In a large bowl mix condensed milk, oil, vinegar mixed milk and litchi juice. If you are using canned litchi use the juice. I have used fresh litchi. Peel, chop and blend the litchis to get juice.
Whisk everything well.
6. Add vanilla essence and whisk again.
7. Now mix all the dry ingredients gradually. Mix well to make a lump free batter.
Don’t over beat.
8. Fold in chopped litchis in the batter. Add 1 – 2 tablespoon litchi juice more if require. Batter should be thick but pourable.
9. Pour the batter in the greased and flour dusted loaf pan.
10. Tap the pan gently. Level the top with a spoon. Sprinkle chopped pistachio over it.
11. Bake in the preheated oven at 180° for 30 – 40 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.
Every oven takes different time so check after 30 minutes. Insert a toothpick in the middle, if it comes out clean, its done.
12. Let the cake cool down completely before slicing.
Serve it with tea, coffee or a glass of milk. Or enjoy with ice cream.
Notes
1. Sweetness depends on the litchis. If you are using fresh and less sweet litchi add 2 tablespoon condensed milk more to balance the sweetness.
2. You can use all purpose flour/maida or any flour to make it.
3. If you don’t like oats omit it and use 1 & 1/2 cup flour of your choice.
4. If you don’t like crack on the top and want to make flat top cake use 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder.
5. You can frost the cake or sprinkle powdered sugar over it with a sieve.
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I love litchi, so I’m pretty sure I’d like this cake. It’s eggless, too. I love the healthy twist you have given to the cake too! 🙂
Thanks a lot Priya 😍
This is such an innovative cake di ! Litchi in a cake..lovely ! Also you have made it with whole wheat and oats flour..healthy treat !!
Thank you so much Poonam 😍
All your creations are so special Sujata dear!Yummy looking cake!
Thanks a lot Amrita 😍
Sujata, That litchi loaf is so delicious that if you were close by you would hear me knocking on your door 🙂
Thanks a lot Sandhya. Glad you liked it. I would love to hear your knock dear 😍
WoW litchi cake sounds so tempting..never thought about it, Sujata di your creations are really amazing day by day. Awesome share 😍😋
Thanks a lot Jolly. Glad you liked it 😍
Lovely recipe………..will try 🙂
Thank you so much. Please do try and let me know how it turns out 😊😊
Sujata, I can actually smell the sweet litchis. I love the fruit and had no idea that it grew in India. I thought they were imported. Love how you’ve used the sweet aromatic fruit in the cake. Will have to wait for litchis to come into the market here before I can bake this delicious looking cake.
Thanks a lot Mayuri. I am very happy you liked it. Yes litchi grow in India and you can get best litchi from Muzaffarpur Bihar 😊😊
That is such a lovely cake with litchi. Never thought litchi can be used to make a cake like this. It looks so soft and delicious.
Thanks a lot Pavani 😊😊
A super innovative recipe that looks wonderfully delish. Thank you so much for the recipe will try it out soon 🙂 – Meghna.
Thanks a lot Meghna 😊😊
Wow.. I love lychees.. I must try this cake.
Thanks a lot Shobha. Do try and let me know how it turns out 😍
Ohhh woow…such a delicious cake. Litchi I never tried in cakes. sounds so good dee
Thank you so much Waagmi 😊😊
Litchis are my husband’s favourite too. Must bake this for him. Sounds delicious.
Thank you so much. Do try hope he will like it 😊
I always look for some exotic cakes and here you are, well done Sujata. Litchi loaf cake looks extremely fabulous. Wish i get some slices from you.
Thanks a lot Priya 😍
Love lychees! The only sad thing is they come to Lahore for a very brief time. I try to use them in as many ways as I can to enjoy them to the utmost but it never occurred to me that I could bake a cake with them too! Beautiful loaf and fabulous idea! 😊
Thank you so much Maria. You can use canned litchi. I think you will get it easily 😍
Wow what an innovation . Gorgeous bake. Loved the healthy recipe. Looks Amazing..
Thanks a lot Ruchi 😍
This is a beautiful bake di, didn’t think of baking with litchi, sounds awesome!
Thank you so much Freda 😊 😊
Litchi in cake sounds super amazing. I love love litchis and totally miss them here.
Thank you so much Sapana 😍
After mango and orange, Litchi is my fav fruit. And what a beautiful idea to use this fruit. Totally drool worthy share di !!!
Thanks a lot Sasmita dear 😊 😊
This is such a innovative one, it must have tasted awesome with litchi in it.
Thank you so much Jayashree 😊 😊
Adding litchi sounds interesting. Fantastic share dee. Thanks for the eggless recipe.
Thanks a lot Preethi 😍
Such a unique cake … Litchi flavor must be super tempting 🙂
Yes Kriti it was superbly delicious. Thank you so much 😊 😊
Hi. The recipe sounds really promising. I’d love to give it a try tomorrow. Can you please clear, 1 cup is 250 gm here? Or less than that?
Thank you.
Thank you. Little less than 250 gram. I have used 250ML cup.
Litchi cake sounds so exotic and delicious, wish I can have a slice of it right now 😀
Thanks a lot Jagruti 😍
Something new to learn Litchi loaf cake, Really admire the way you explained
We also try to bring different methods in our institute
Thanks for writing in detail
Thank you so much. Glad you liked it 😊😊
litchi in a cake!! Have never eaten that before! Must taste heavenly!
Thanks Mallika. Yes dear taste is really heavenly 😊😊
Love lychees and itching to try this recipe. Any way of making it without the condensed milk? Want to make it as healthy and guilt free as possible 🙂
Taste may differ but you can skip condensed milk. You have to use sugar or any sweetener. Condensed milk is enough sweet so I didn’t.