Bake a Cake on Your Stovetop

Learn how to bake cake without an oven or microwave, with the help of cooking pots available in your kitchen.

Steps

Turn on the big burner of your gas stove. It can go upon the small burner of your gas stove, if need be.
Place your cooking pot on it. You can use a steel or aluminium big mouth cooking pot for baking, like - kadhai, big pan and dhokla maker. Now turn on flame and pre-heat your pot for five minutes
Find something you can use as a baking mould. Any aluminium or steel pot of flat and thick bottom with big open mouth will do. You can even use a useless saucepan as a cake mould.
Place the cake mould on rack. Dhokla racks are available with dhokla making pots, if you are using one, but if you are using any other cooking pot, then place a small plate upside down in the middle of your cooking pot.
Put your cake batter into the mould. Then place the mould upon the stand/rack in cooking pot. Cover cooking pot with its lid and turn the flame to low.
Bake your cake on low flame for 35 to 40 minutes, or until an inserted knife comes out clean.

If any cake recipe calls to bake a cake for 35 minutes in oven or microwave then bake your cake also for 35 minutes.

If you are using steel cooking pot for baking or as a mould then pre-heat your cooking pot only for two minutes.
If you are using half quantity of original cake recipe quantity, then pre-heat cooking pot only for two minutes.
You can use a sweet box as a cake mould, if desired.
Never place cake mould direct upon the cooking pot bottom without a stand or plate.

Gas stove
Big mouth cooking pot of steel or aluminium, like a dhokla maker, kadhai, big open mouth bhagona, etc.
Steel or aluminium flat, thick bottom and open mouth bowl
Small plate if baking in other than a dhokla maker.