A light vanilla steamed cake with Nutella and beetroot flavoured patches. This beautiful cake was an inspiration from Veronica's Neapolitan spongecake posting in her blog a few days ago. To avoid using my oven to bake in an air-conditioned house, I steamed the cake instead :)
Yield: One 14cm round cake
Ingredients:
75g top/cake flour
50g fresh milk, room temperature
15g condensed milk
10g vegetable oil
10g vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 egg whites, room temperature
60g fine sugar
60g fine sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp Nutella
1/8 tsp beetroot powder*
1/2 tsp water*
* the beetroot paste can be replaced by strawberry/raspberry flavour, or red food dye.
材料
2粒 蛋,蛋白蛋黄分开
60g 细糖
50g鲜奶
15g炼奶
10g食油
75g低筋面粉
1/8小匙 泡打粉
1 茶匙 榛子酱
1/8茶匙 甜菜根粉*
1/2茶匙 水*
*甜菜根糊可由草莓/覆盆莓香精,或食用红色素取代
Directions
1. Line a 14cm round cake pan with parchment paper. Wrap the base with aluminum foil if you are using a removable base pan.
2. Loosen top/cake flour using a hand whisk. Set aside.
3. Mix fresh milk, condensed milk, oil and vanilla extract in a small bowl. Set aside to return to room temperature.
If you are using cold ingredients to prepare, you may have to extend the steaming time.
4. In a clean and dry stainless steel mixing bowl, beat egg white till frothy. Add in fine sugar in three batches, beat at medium high speed, till firm peaks formed. Towards the end of the whipping, gradually reduce the speed to low.
5. Add in the egg yolk, one at a time. Whip till the pulled up batter can stay on the batter for more than than 5 seconds.
6. Add in the flour mixture (2) and milk mixture (3) in alternate sequence. Starting with flour and end with flour.
Do not over mix the batter, or you'll end up with a tough cake.
8. Pour the milk, Nutella and beetroot batters into the prepared cake pan in alternate sequence.
For the final layer, drizzle the Nutella and beetroot batters in a few spots.
Bang the cake pan against the work top to get rid of trapped air parcels.
8. Steam the batter in a pre-heated pot of hot water at medium high heat for 5 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to to low, and steam for about 13 to 15 minutes, or till an inserted cake tester came out dry.
9. Remove the cake from the pot, drop it from a height of about 5cm to a kitchen cloth, and let the cake cool down in the pan for 5 minutes.
10. When the cake has cooled down, slice and enjoy :)
Recipe inspiration from Veronica's posting
Hi Ngai Leng, thanks for linking. I love steamed cake too but I don't have much confidence in steaming. Will give this a try one day. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHi Veronica, thank you for stopping by. I really admire your beautiful oven baked Neapolitan sponge cake.
DeleteI prefer to steam cake with a glass lid so I can observe how's the cake raising in the steam and adjust the heat accordingly. Hope you'll like the recipe, hehe :)