Upvas/Falhari Cake for Janamashtmi with Almond Flour- Instant Badam Burfi forms the base for this ‘Matki’ cake. The Instant Badam Burfi requires only 4 ingredients and is ready in a matter of minutes. The fact that we don’t have to make a sugar syrup certainly makes it a very easy recipe.

I made and shared the Instant Badam Burfi last week and was itching to try out something new and creative using that as my base. I loved the fact that the Upvas/Falhari cake for janamashtmi is made up of ingredients that can be eaten during fasting, namely, nuts, milk, sugar and butter. With that in mind I started trying to figure out something easy to etch, nothing complicated.

It also had to be something that was synonymous with Krishna. I thought of a flute-too straight and simple I thought, peacock feathers-too complicated. By process of elimination, came up with Matki, meaning an earthern pot used for storing milk and churning butter in the olden days. Those familiar with Lord Krishnas’ stories about his childhood, know that he loved, milk and butter and was often caught red handed, literally with his hands in the Matki.

If you fast on janamashtmi, then some of the recipes that you might be interested in are Paneer Butter Masala-No Onion No Garlic Recipe, No Onion Garlic Malai Kofta, Paneer Ki sabzi without onion garlic, Vrat ke Dahi Vade in Appe Pan, Vrat ki kadhi and Sabudana Appe with Paneer Filling.

Inspired by this edible jewelry post by Shital

Here is the written recipe followed by the step by step pictorial one-

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

Cook Time 5

Total Time 20

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.

Keyword almond flour cake, badaam barfi cake, cake for janamashtmi, falhari cake, glutenfree cake, navratri recipe, upvas cake, vrat cake, vrat wala cake

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Here is the step by step pictorial recipe-

Ingredients