How to Bake a Cake without an Oven

If you know, how to bake a cake without an oven at home, you will be always ready for unexpected guests. Baking a cake may be complicated and time-consuming. Sometimes it may become a too huge challenger to a beginner in cooking. But if you know, how to bake a cake without an oven, you take your ingenuity to another level. Besides, the ingredients for this dessert are usually common and easy to find, so you can bake a cake without oven in Nigeria and do not worry about exotic components.

Here are some of our favorite cake recipes without an oven.

Chocolate and Banana Cake

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Ingredients

  • 100-200 g of cookies
  • 50-100 g of butter
  • 2-3 bananas
  • 400 ml of natural yogurt
  • 100 ml of milk
  • 6 tbsp. of sugar
  • 3 tbsp. of cacao or 80-100 g of dark chocolate
  • 10 g of gelatin

Cooking process

  1. Soak gelatin in 100 ml of water and follow the instructions on the cover. Crack the cookies and grind it in a blender till you get the crumbs.
  2. Melt the butter, add it to cookie crumbs, and mix well. Place the mass into a baking form, flatten, and tamp. Then put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
  3. Pour the milk into a pot, add sugar, gelatin, and cocoa. Heat and mix until gelatin melts. But do not boil the mixture!
  4. Add yogurt and mix.
  5. Peel the bananas, cut into halves, and place on top. Pour the chocolate mass on top. Place in the fridge for at least three.

Fruit and Berry Cake

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Ingredients

  • 300 g of sponge cake
  • 0,5 l of sour cream
  • 1 glass of sugar
  • 3 tbsp. of gelatin
  • fruits and berries (strawberry, banana, kiwi, etc.)

Cooking process

  1. Tear the sponge cake into pieces.
  2. Soak gelatin in ½ glass of cold water and leave for 30 minutes. Then, heat the water till the gelatin melts.
  3. Meanwhile, whisk sour cream and sugar, gradually adding gelatin mixture. Cover a baking form with butter-paper. Arrange the ingredients in layers: fruits/berries, pieces of sponge cake, and so on.
  4. Pour everything with gelatin mixture. Place the cake in a fridge for 3-4 hours. Turn it upside down on a big plate and serve.

Cheesecake

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Ingredients

  • 500 g of cotton or cream cheese
  • 1 can of condensed milk
  • 10 g of instant gelatin
  • 2/3 glass of water (or milk)
  • 250 g of shortbread cookies
  • 100 g of butter
  • berry sauce

Cooking process

  1. Grind the cookies in a blender. Melt butter, mix it with cookie crumbs and make it smooth. Take a baking form and cover with butter-paper. Put the crumbs into a form.
  2. Soak gelatin in 2/3 glasses of water, leave for 10 minutes. Then place a cup with gelatin in hot water, and mix it until it melts.
  3. Mix cotton cheese with condensed milk. Add gelatin and whisk.
  4. Place the mass on cookie base and draw it level. Cover the form with kitchen film and place in a fridge for 3 hours. Cover with sauce and serve.

Strawberry and Wrecker Cake

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Ingredients

  • 2 kg of fresh or frozen strawberries
  • 500 g of rich cream
  • 500 g of wreckers, preferably square
  • 1 glass of sugar
  • 50 g of dark chocolate for decoration
  • 1 package of vanilla sugar

Cooking process

  1. Peel and wash the strawberries and leave in a colander for a while. Put several berries aside for decoration and cut the rest into thin slices.
  2. Whisk the cream with sugar and vanilla sugar to make the hard sauce. Divide the wreckers into four equal parts or several parts, depending on the form and dimensions of a plate for the cake.
  3. Take a baking form and arrange ingredients in layers: wreckers, cream, and strawberries, and so on. Decorate the top layer with strawberry slices and whole berries that left.
  4. Tear the chocolate and melt it in a microwave, but make sure the chocolate doesn’t boil. Pour chocolate on the top.

Bounty Rolled Cake

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Ingredients

  • 200 g of cookies
  • 100 ml of water
  • 50–100 g of sugar (depending on cookies)
  • 2 tbsp. of cocoa
  • 80 g of coconut flakes
  • 80 g of softened butter
  • 60 g of powdered sugar

Cooking process

  1. Grind cookies into crumbs and mix with cacao. Melt sugar in hot water and chill. Slowly add cookies into the water and mix, while the dough becomes sticky.
  2. Mix coconut flakes with butter and powdered sugar.
  3. Cover a baking form with kitchen film and put the cookie mass (not too thick), arrange the coconut mass, fold up a rolled cake and place in a fridge for an hour. Cut and serve.

Peanut Butter Cake

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Ingredients

  • 30 chocolate cookies
  • ¾ glasses of sugar
  • 6 tbsp. of butter
  • ½ spoon of cinnamon
  • 100 g of cream cheese
  • 1/3 glass of peanut butter
  • 1 glass of whipped cream

Cooking process

  1. Grind the cookies in a blender or by hands in a plastic bag.
  2. Mix the cookies with melted butter, ½ glass of sugar, and cinnamon. Place the mixture in a backing form and smooth on the surface, and put in a fridge for an hour. Before this, you can bake it for 7 minutes (not obligatory).
  3. Whisk peanut butter with ¼ cup of sugar, cream cheese, and cream. Place it on top of the crust. Put back in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
  4. Decorate the cake with chopped chocolate candies or nuts.

Éclair Cake

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Ingredients

  • 500 ml of milk
  • 50 g of butter
  • 1 yolk
  • 7 tbsp. of sugar
  • 2,5 tbsp. of cornstarch
  • 2 dessert spoons of cocoa
  • vanilla sugar
  • cookies

Cooking process

  1. Divide the milk into two parts. Put one in a saucepan and boil. Take the other part, add starch, 3 tbsp. of sugar, yolk, vanilla sugar, whisk it and pour into hot milk, mix and cook until thickens.
  2. Take the milk pudding off the cooker and cool it. Cover the baking form with butter-paper or foil. Place the layer of cookies, then a layer of pudding, and so on, ending with the layer of cookies.
  3. Prepare chocolate topping: mix 4 tbsp. of sugar, cocoa, and 1 tbsp. of milk, boil the mixture, add butter, and mix. Pour chocolate on top and put it in a fridge.

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Cake preparation without an oven is probably the simplest and the safest strategy to cook a desert. Our advice: start with the first recipe and learn how to make a chocolate cake without oven. Bon Appétit!