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Maldivian Food

Cassava cake

A buttery cassava cake made with eggs, sugar and milk powder, baked in a tray.

A slice of cassava cake.
A slice of cassava cake. Photo: Obsidian Soul / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

A soft, buttery cake made with cassava, known in Dhivehi as dhandialuvi, and baked in a tray.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar

  • 6 eggs

  • 2 tablespoons milk powder

  • 1 cup butter

Method

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until smooth.

  2. Sift the flour, baking powder and milk powder together.

  3. Add one egg and a little of the flour at a time, beating as you go, until smooth.

  4. Mix in the cassava and the essence.

  5. When well combined, grease a tray with butter, pour in the batter and bake in the oven.