Thursday, November 6, 2008

Steamed Black and White Butter Cake




For this cake I used Steamed Soft Chocolate Cake recipe. I made some adjustment here and there. I didn't use baking soda and the air holes were smaller. This time half way through the steaming process, I sprinkled diced almond on the surface to cover the air holes and gave the cake some crunch. Actually, I intended to make a Marble Cake however I was in a rush to fetch my son. I quickly pour a lay of plain batter and top it up with the chocolate batter and used a knife to swirl around. So I name it 'Steamed Black and White Butter Cake'.


Recipe

Ingredients
95g unsalted butter
100g sugar
2 egg
110g cake flour
1tsp double-action baking powder
75g evaporated milk
2 1/2tbsp Horlicks
1/2tsp vanilla essence
pinch of salt

1tsp cocoa powder
1/4tsp chocolate emulco (optional)

some diced almond

Steps:
1. Sift flour and baking powder together, set aside.
2. Mix evaporated milk, Horlicks and vanilla essence together, set aside.
3. Cream butter, salt and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Slowly beat in egg until well combined.(If batter curdle add in some flour.)
5. Fold in flour and milk mixture alternately until well combined.
6. Do not over mix.
7. Scoop out 1/3 of the batter, mix in cocoa powder and emulco.
8. Spoon some plain batter into a lined and greased 7" round tin.
9. Spoon some cocoa batter on it and repeat the step.
10. Then use a sharp knife and swirl around the batter.
11. Cover with aluminum foil.
12. Steam over high heat for 45mins, remove aluminum foil and sprinkle some diced almond on top.
13. Cover and continue to steam for another 45mins, if skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake then it done.
14. Remove cake and cool it on a wire rack.

12 comments:

Kitchen Corner said...

Hi Happy Flour,
This one looks gorgeous! Simple decoration makes clean and tasty. It's remind me the afternoon tea with a piece of cake I'd in the UK coffee house.

Happy Flour said...

Hi Kitchen Corner,

Thanks. I simply fall in love with steam butter cake. Baked butter cake
is best eaten on that day and by the next day, oil will ooze out from the cake which I find it too oily. This is not oily at all even the next day.

rgds,

Anonymous said...

Hi Happy Flour - this cake looks so nice! can i just omit the chocolate and make it as a plain butter cake? does it taste like baked one?

Happy Flour said...

Hi anonymous,

Yes, you can just omit the chocolate.
It taste actually like baked butter cake.

Ean said...

Hi Happy Flour, can i omit the Double Action baking powder?

Happy Flour said...

Hi Ean,

You can replace it with 1 1/4tsp to 1 1/2tsp of baking powder instead.

Ean said...

Thanks Happy Flour

Ean said...

can i replace cake flour with self raising flour?

can i omit horlick?

Happy Flour said...

Hi Ean,

You can replace cake flour with self raising flour instead, reduce or omit the baking powder. Just replace horlick with milk powder or milo.

Ean said...

if replace the horlick with milk powder, will the cake will have heavy taste of milk?

Anonymous said...

hey there ~ can i use plain flour instead of cake flour ? sorry ya im a beginner in baking >.<

Happy Flour said...

Hi Anonymous,

Sure you can use plain flour.