A dear friend of mine, Carol, requested a sugee cake and I immediately said yes. Only to realise after that, that I've never had sugee cake before. I love sugee cookies though but never tried the cakes and have never baked one before too!
So, when in doubt, google! Haha. Whoa!! Was really surprised when I saw the ingredients. The number of eggs and amount of sugar used! Super-thigh food. That's what my friend would call this. I ended up with the so-called 'healthiest' and 'figure-friendliest' recipe. Passed it to Carol for tasting and nahh! Even I didn't like it. Brown sugar for sugee, nahh! It doesn't go that way. Plus the recipe called for the use of almond essence. Nahhh, that didn't work either.
Call me lucky, but I then got a recipe, an authentic Indian sugee recipe from MIL's neighbour. But the thing was, I could feel my waistline expanding just by looking at the recipe alone. So, tweaked it a bit. Again, I passed to Carol for tasting. Carol called the 'test' cakes as mock-ups. Glad that she liked the second one. And to my delight, after I handed her the real cake, she said it passed with flying colours. (Eventhough I wasn't too happy with the quite messy edges!) Note to self : Make a nicer looking sugee cake next time! So, sugee cakes for deepavali, anyone? ;) Carol just ordered another 3 ;)
