Black Sesame Pork Floss Steamed Cake

A sweet and savoury steamed cake with a greed for good flavours.

🔆 Top layer - added freshly roasted and ground black sesame seeds 

🔆 Middle layer - pork floss + green scallions + coriander stems

🔆 Bottom layer - flavoured by vanilla and pandan

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Ingredients

All ingredients in room temperature except cold eggs

Using 50~52g eggs

{A}

2 egg whites, cold

Pinch of low sodium salt

20g fine sugar

15g raw sugar/fine sugar

2 egg yolks, cold

{B}

58g top/cake flour

1/4 tsp pandan powder, optional 

{C}

50g low-fat milk

10g golden syrup/condensed milk

10g rice bran oil/mild flavour veg oil

1/4 tsp vanilla extract 

{D}

15g crispy pork floss

1g green scallions, finely chopped 

1g coriander stem, finely chopped 

{E}

7g freshly roasted & ground black sesame seeds 

Direction

1. start to boil about 130g of water in a small pot in medium-low heat. Cover the pot with a glass lid with a steam vent.

2.  mix {C} ingredients in a small glass. Set aside.

3. in a clean and dry mixing bowl, beat egg white with salt, fine sugar, and raw sugar till reaching firm peak. Mix in yolks and beat till reaching ribbon stage as {A}.

4. mix in 1/3 of {B} to {A} using an electric hand mixer.

5. pour and mix in 1/2 of {C} mixture. Continue to mix in the remaining {B} and {C} in alternating sequence. End the mixing with {B}. Use a silicone spatula to do a final mixing into a smooth batter.

6. pour 1/2 of the batter into one 135x45mm round pan lined with parchment paper.  Lightly rap the pan to level the  batter.

7. scatter {D} mixture over the top of the batter in the pan.

8. mix {E} to the remaining 1/2 of the batter, and pour over {D}. 

Rap the pan to level the batter.

9. lower the cake pan into the pot of boiling water, and stand on a steamer rack. Steam at medium-low heat for 5 minutes; lower to low heat and continue to steam for 8 minutes. Turn off the heating, without opening the lid, let the cake simmer for 5 minutes to gradually “cool down”. 

10. open the lid carefully. Drop the cake with pan over a cloth thrice. Let the cake cool down for 5 minutes before lifting out of the cake pan. 

Cut the cake after cooling down.