Rich Milk Cake

Mava nu Cake

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The World of Parsi Cooking: Food Across Borders

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2019

  • About

The ever-popular mawa or mava nu cake was in the headlines when an established family run bakery in Mumbai shut down after over a century. Sad, I would say, as it had certainly not run its course in popularity. I had read many a review about the queues and the constant fresh food they offered and the excitement and affection for the place seemed to literally pour out from each one. These Irani tea shops, as we lovingly refer to them, are in danger of getting extinct as fewer p