Top 5 Spectacular Gulab Jamun Cake Designs and How to Make them Tasty

A Gulab Jamun Cake is one of the quirkiest cake flavours. The exceptional combination of a Cake, with the most beloved dessert of India. The taste is out of the world and would stick to your tongue for a while. 

Here, we have curated the best recipe for making the most delicious and delectable Gulab Jamun Cake. The one which would be perfect for your Birthday as well as for the Wedding Ceremony.

How to Make Gulab Jamun?

Particularly when we are speaking about cooking a couple of Gulab Jamuns. The soft, bouncy taste of a Gulab Jamun is just out of this world. And, the first ingredient your need is ‘love’.

The second and literal ingredient list starts with condensed milk powder and refined white flour. This today, are probably the leader of the can’t, and you can miss on this. 

Apart from this, there is another extremely important stuff required for making Gulab Jamun Cake. And, that is Ghee. You need a lot of Clarified butter for frying and biding the dough. 

Incorporate the Flour and the Milk powder in equal quantities. And adds Ghee to the mixture, to form a semi-solid dough ball. Which is nicely floured, and greased. 

Prepare a pan with Ghee or Oil for deep frying the little dough balls you created. In a separate vessel, make a thick sugar syrup using sugar, water, cardamom, and saffron strings. 

Just after frying the balls, keep them inside that thick and hot syrup. That is it, you are done with some amazing hot Gulab Jamun Pieces. 

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Ingredients Required for a Gulab Jamun Cake

Now, that you know how to make Gulab Jamun for the cake. The recipe for the Gulab Jamun Cake is even easier and more customizable. This list has all the ingredients required for a cake. 

The Gulab Jamun Cake certainly needs to have Flour, Powdered Sugar, Cardamon Powder, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Almond extract, Vanilla Extract, or Essence. 

While for wet ingredients, you will need Milk, Vinegar, Full-Fat Yogurt, Un-Salted Butter, Required Food Coloring. Obviously, use the Sugar syrup prepared while making Gulab Jamun.

Apart from these mentioned ingredients, a Gulab Jamun Cake also needs to have certain exclusive pieces of stuff for the purpose of decoration, like Whipping Cream, and castor sugar. 

Specifically for the purpose of the Gulab Jamun Flavour, you will need a couple of Gulab Jamun pieces for the filling as well as the topping. Also some extra dry fruits, and dried-up rose petals. 

How to Make Gulab Jamun Cake?

The process of making the Gulab Jamun cake is quite easy you only need to worry about mixing the dry ingredients and wet ingredients in the right way. Firstly shifting the dry ones. 

Shift all the dry ingredients through a filter, and use another bowl to whip all the wet ingredients. Incorporate both mixtures together, then gradually add milk into the bowl. 

Keep adding milk, until the batter runs semi-liquid. You have to use the entire set of wet ingredients, except the Gulab Jamun syrup, which would be used later while assembling. 

Take a baking tin, and grease it with cooking spray or butter. Add a thin layer of parchment paper, and then pour the batter into the cooking tin. Keep the oven preheated at 350℉.

Add the cake into the Oven, and now bake it for 45-50 mins at 250℉. Once the cake is ready, it is time for you to cool it on a separate rack, and use divide the cake into a few layers. 

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How to Decorate the Gulab Jamun Cake?

The final part of baking a simple Gulab Jamun cake, it is all about decorating it in the right manner. The most important ingredient here is Gulab jamuns, and rose petals. 

Remember we kept Whipping cream and castor sugar for the frosting? Well, now that has to be whipped into a beautiful buttercream frosting. Whip the cream, and add sugar gradually. 

Do not overwhip the cream, and leave it inside a piping bag to chill for later use. It is time, for making the final assembly. Use the sugar syrup of Gulab Jamun, to make the cake moist. 

Add a thick layer of frosting in the first piece, and a few pieces of half-cut Gulab Jamun at regular intervals. You can also add some finely chopped cashews and almonds. 

Incorporate a basic combination of layers of cakes and other simple fillings. Once all those layers are filled properly, assemble all those layers together. Add a crump code frosting to it. 

The Gulab Jamun Cake is ready, but to make it even more interesting use your own creativity to customize the top of the cake. Dry Fruits and Gulab Jamuns are some of the decoratives. 

Top 5 Gulab Jamun Cake Decoration Ideas:

Personal innovation is extremely creative and interesting. A baker would choose their decors wisely. Similarly, you also need to choose your design according to the event and the purpose. 

Use any of the following measures to decorate the cake in the best possible way. A Gulab Jamun Cake can never go wrong, the taste is the main hero. 

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The White Celebration Gulab Jamun Cake

This is undoubtedly very beautiful as a Gulab Jamun Cake design. The subtle details of little Gulab Jamun balls, are giving a beautiful memory of Diwali and celebration. 

I would suggest this cake design for occasions such as anniversaries or even birthdays. Especially the collective decoration on top of it. The colour is white, and there are dried fruits too. 

Design:

The cake looks amazing with these additional little pieces of pistachios and dried rose petals on top of it. 

Tiny Glab Jamun Cakes ‘Cup Cakes’

Cupcakes are quite trendy and Instagramable too, with some little details of a gulab jamun and a thick layer of frosting on top of it. The soft cream is extremely delicious and appreciated too. 

The apparent appearance of the cake makes it even more delectable for certain little parties, like your Christmas bash or even as a dessert for your official Wedding Ceremony. 

Design:

As a well-designed cupcake, it has some finely crushed pistachios, almonds, and dried rose petals too. 

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The Aesthetic Gulab Jamun Cheesecake

Gulab Jamun Cake, as a fine cheesecake, what else do you need for a beautiful dessert? Cheesecakes are already one of my favourite things when it is customized with Gulab jamuns. 

Nothing can go wrong with this beautiful concoction. A fine layer of cheesy base, with a beautiful and crispy layer of graham crackers. This is probably the finest of all the designs. 

Design:

As a little decoration to this beautiful cake, the beer has significantly used some dried-up rose petals, and also some dry fruits which have been chopped and sliced. 

Gulab Jamun Cake Parfait with Rashmalai

As a Gulab Jamun Cake, it has all the best things in this particular parfait design. As a simplistic cake, it has a fine layer of gulab jamuns and a fine layer of Rashmalai too. 

Like two most beautiful desserts under a single roof.  The tasty piece of Ghee fried Gulab Jamun, and the thick and nice ‘Malai-Wala’ Milky syrup of Rashmalai. 

Design:

To me, this is one of a kind and the best of all Gulab Jamun cake types. Silky and well blended, a completely new dessert to be precise. 

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Gulab Jamun Cake for Birthday

This particular Gulab Jamun Cake has been made with special emphasis on birthdays. The simplicity of the design reminds me of a good slice of a birthday cake. Which is authentically flavoured with the best ingredients.

These kinds of cakes are perfect for people who like Indianized flavours more than western cake flavours. Flavours like Gulab Jamun, Rasmalai, Motichur Ladoo, or anything other than these mundane sweets.

Design:

The main intention of making this cake as a birthday treat was to make it extremely well decorated and extremely tasty for all the guests in that room. Particularly this cake is extremely unusual and quirky too.

These were some of the best Gulab Jamun Cake designs out there. You should use your own creativity to design it according to the requirement of the event, and also the preferred taste buds. Making Gulab Jamun from scratch is quite easy.

And, building the entire cake on your own is similarly a literal ‘cake work. Enjoy your slice of Cake, with some tasty pieces of toppings. And do not forget to visit myMandap to get your reach with wedding and food-related kinds of stuff.