Friday 13 September 2013

Simple Steam Cake




 Today i am making steam cake the first time, as for me cake must be baked not steam but i was surprised it tasted delicious and the texture was moist and soft, that really change my mind about steamed cakes. Both E & G love it!Guess this will be one of my regular soon!

What you 'll need (makes 4 cups cakes, i have tweaked the recipe )
1 medium egg
30g castor sugar
30g yogurt (original flavour)
30ml milk
15g melted butter (salted or not salted is fine)
100 g  Optima Flour  Low Protein Flour ( i sieved out the sugar because i earlier forgot this has sugar and i already add the egg with sugar. If you did not sieve the optima flour, please remember to remove the 30g sugar above or else it 'll be too sweet)
2 tsp of low protein flour (1 tsp for each bowl)
1/4 tsp or less of red food coloring
1/4 tsp or less of matcha powder food colouring

Method--batter
1. egg and sugar mix and stir til combine
2. add yogurt, milk and stir til combine
3. add optima flour, fold and add melted butter

Method- coloured batter (for the design)
1. take 2 small bowls and add 1 tsp of low protein flour to each bowl
2. take 4 tsp of batter and separate equally to (1)
3. add tiny drop red colour to 1 bowl and tiny drop green to the other bowl,blend well( i used a tooth pick)
4. Pour this to the cone shape paper( you can make your own) and set aside

Combining both
1.take a mold and put paper cups in it, pour the batter equally to all 4 cups(just quarter full), tap the mold 
   on the table to release trapped air
2. get ready the colored batter and pipe the design you like, i did some strawberry, heart and motives
3.put the cakes into the steamer with boiling water , cover and steam about 12-15mins in medium fire
4 The cake is ready when the skewer comes out clean, if not steam for another 1 -2 mins
ingredients to make 4 cup cakes
Before Steam

voila, end result!
Notes
* i used matcha colour, i like the smell and colour
* i used about 15mins from preparing the coloured batter to piping design on the cake, was worried that the main batter will be hard, thank God it didn't
* the cake is soft and moist, maybe because of the yogurt...not too sure
* do not pipe too many layers as when you steam, the design will sink to the bottom(as it is heavy), see the image above, 1 of the strawberry was missing :-)

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