Fruit Cassata Cake

It was my in-laws marriage anniversary, we went out previous day night and reached home late but i thought of preparing something special for the next day, immediately I remembered eggless cake mix at home, so using that I prepared cake, but never thought of preparing Cassata. As my husband is the best cook he suggested to try for cassata using the same cake, then i used just fruit salad, strawberry ice cream and the plain spongy cake. It was so tasty that i did not expected so much likes from my loved ones.

Ingredients:   

For Cake:

350gms Eggless cake mix

1tsp Baking powder

20ml Vegetable oil

1 tsp Ghee

½ tsp Strawberry essence

3gms Cake gel

25ml Water

For Fruit Salad:

1 cup finely chopped Mango

1 cup finely chopped Banana

½ cup finely chopped Kiwi

3 tsp Custard powder

25 Dry grapes

15 finely chopped Cashew

3 tsp Honey

200ml Milk

150ml Sugar

For Cassata:

500gms Strawberry Icecream

15 chopped Cherries

Procedure: 

Cake:

1. Take a bowl add water, cake gel and whip for a minute in low speed.
2. Add cake mix, baking powder and whip in high speed for 5 minutes.
3. Later add oil, strawberry essence and whip for a minute.
4. Transfer this into a greased (apply ghee constantly inside the pan) cake pan.
5. Preheat oven at 200 degrees for 15 mins then bake at 170 degrees until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, it takes 25 to 30 minutes.
6. Later allow the cake to cool for about 10 minutes then unmold and cool completely.
7. Spongy cake is ready.

Fruit Salad:

1. Take a kadai, add milk, custard powder and sugar, mix well without any lumps.
2. Keep the kadai to heat on low flame, go on stirring as it easily burns.
3. As it forms as thick gel, remove the kadai from heat, let it cool.
4. Take a bowl add all the chopped fruits, dry grapes, cashew, honey, cooled custard mix and mix well.

You can use any fruits as per your taste.

Cassata:

1. Take a round shaped (steel or air tight) box, slice the sponge cake and make as lower layer of 2 cm thickness, pat well.
2. Spread 1 ½ cm thickness of strawberry ice cream on it.
3. Then spread 2 cm thickness of fruit salad, throw chopped cherries over it.
4. Refrigerate for 6 hours.
5. Later cut into your desired shape and serve chilled tasty Fruit Cassata cake.