My Mind Patch: Pumpkin Honey Cotton Cake 南瓜蜂蜜棉花蛋糕

Monday 24 August 2015

Pumpkin Honey Cotton Cake 南瓜蜂蜜棉花蛋糕

I adapted this wonderful recipe from Sharon's blog <爱厨房的幸福之味>. It's a light flavour cake in cheerful sunny yellow :)

Yield: one 15cm diameter round cake

Cake mould: 6" round mould, 7.5cm tall

Baking temperature & time:

Preheat oven to 170 degree C.

Bake at 170 degree C for 35 to 40 minutes with upper heating only

Lower to 150 degree C for another 20 to 25 minutes with both heating.

Ingredients

All ingredients in room temperature

Using 60g eggs

40g coconut/vegetable oil 椰油/植物油

50g top/cake flour 低筋面粉

30g honey 蜂蜜

35g cooked pumpkin paste 熟南瓜泥

1/2 blade pandan leaf 香兰叶

3 egg yolks 蛋黄

30g beaten egg 蛋液

1/8 tsp salt 盐

3 egg whites 蛋白

30g fine sugar 细砂糖

Direction

1. Line a 6" round cake pan with a small piece of parchment paper if you are using a fixed base cake pan. This is to facilitate removal of cake from the pan.

You may omit this step if you are using a 6" removal base cake pan.

2. Steam pumpkin in rice cooker for about 10 minutes, or till soften.

Mash hot pumpkin into a paste and add in honey. Set aside.

3. Loosen the flour using a hand whisk. Set aside.

4. Heat coconut/vegetable oil till you see convection current starting to appear at the bottom of the oil (about 70 to 75 degree Celsius).

Do not over heat the oil as we don't want to fry the flour.

5. Remove the bowl of hot oil from the stove, add in the flour and stir till smooth paste formed.

Let the cooked dough cool down for 5 minutes before adding to egg batter.

6. In a separate bowl, blend the egg yolks with 30g of beaten egg.

If you are using smaller egg around 50 to 55g weight, you can add one whole egg instead of 30g.

7. Stir in the pumpkin milk mixture from (2) to the yolk batter

8. Add the cooked dough from (5) to (7). And mix into a smooth batter.

9. Mix in a pinch of salt. Cover and set aside.

10. Beat egg white till frothy, for about 30 seconds. Add in the sugar, in 3 batches.

11. Beat at medium high speed at the start and reduce to low speed towards the end of the process. Beat the meringue till almost reaching the stiff peak stage. The standing meringue has a slight dip at the tip.

12. Scoop about 1/3 of the meringue into the yolk batter at (9). Fold to mix.

13. Pour the yolk batter back to the remaining meringue and fold to mix into a smooth batter.

14. Pour the batter into the 6" round cake mould. Lightly bang the cake mould a few times to remove any trapped air bubbles in the batter.

15. Place the cake pan in a tray of 1cm-deep hot water.

Steam-bake the batter in a preheated oven set at 170 degree Celsius with only the upper heating coil for 35~40 minutes at lower rack of the oven.

After 35 to 40 minutes, reduce the oven temperature to 150 degree Celsius and turn on both upper and lower heating, for another 20 to 25 minutes.

If the cake brown too fast, cover it with an aluminum foil.

End of baking.

The cake is done if it stops rising for about 5 to 10 minutes.

Oven temperature and baking duration may differ based on individual oven.

16. Remove the cake with pan from the oven and drop it from a height of about 8cm to prevent the cake from shrinking after cooling down.

After the 20~25 minutes of cooling down, and while the cake is still warm, runs a silicon spatula along the edge of the cake. Remove the cake from the cake pan and cool down on a wire rack. This is to prevent accumulation of moisture at the base of the cake.