Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Steamed Sponge Cake


Recipe

Ingredients
3 eggs
85g caster sugar
1/4tsp salt
85g self-raising flour
10g custard powder
25g veg. oil

Steps:
1. Sift flour and custard powder together and set aside.
2. Whisk the eggs, salt and sugar together until light and fluffy.(Do the ribbon test: Use the whisk to spoon some batter, drip some into the mixing bowl. If it stay visible for a while then this is the right stage.)
3. Lightly fold in the flour into the egg batter.
4. Lastly fold in the oil.
5. Pour into a lined and greased 7inches cake pan.
6. Cover with foil and steam at high heat for 25mins.
7. Remove cake and cool on a wire rack.

7 comments:

ann low said...

Never try to steam cake before. Will bookmark* this. Thanks for sharing.

Von said...

The cake looks delicious!
Does it taste any different to baked spnge cake?

Ean said...

If I do not have custard sugar,how? If I Prefer orange taste nice? How?

Happy Flour said...

Hi Anncoo and Von,

The texture of the ckae is very soft and spongy. It almost the same as baked sponge cake but slightly moist.

Happy Flour said...

Hi Ean,

You just replace it with flour. If you prefer orange flavour, just add 1/2tsp orange zest and 1/2tsp orange essence.

joyce said...

hi happy flour

i tired this recipe today and it turns out so soft and nice..thanks for sharing this great recipe :)

cheers
joyce

Happy Flour said...

Hi Joyce,

Glad that you enjoy this sponge cake. :) Happy baking.