Chiffon Cake - pandan flavoured

 

 

Finally I made the Chiffon cake.  I bought the chiffon mould about 6 months ago but didn't have the courage to try to make the chiffon cake until today.  I was troubled about making pandan juice and finally decided to use the pandan paste instead. 

My family loves to eat the chiffon cake from Bengawan Solo and today I tried out the recipe from Alex Goh's cake book.   This book I bought from Popular bookshop many years ago so the cover of the book could have been replaced if you are planning to buy this book too.

 

In order to make this cake, you will need to use a Chiffon cake mould or a tube pan. item C in the photo below taken from his cookbook.

 

Today I used a 23cm one bought from Phoon Huat.


Ingredients

A.
4 Egg Yolks. ( I used 2 XL eggs 65 gm and 2 eggs 55gm all from Chew's)
70 ml coconut milk - I used packet coconut cream
45  ml water
70ml vegetable oil
1/8 tsp salt
100 g sugar ( I used castor sugar)
150g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 teaspoon of pandan paste

B
4 egg whites
90 g sugar (castor sugar)
1/8 tsp cream of tartar

Need a stand mixer, additional bowl and whisk.


1.  Pour the egg yolks, sugar and vegetable oil into the mixing bowl.

2. Add the remaing ingredients of A into the bowl.

3. Mix A evenly till smooth and set aside.

 

 

4. Whisk the egg whites in B till soft peaks appear.  Add sugar and cream of tartar and continue to whip till stiff.

My egg whites, cream of tartar and sugar

 

In the beginning - very bubbly and foamy

 

Gathering volume

 

 

Not sure if this is the right stage - after adding sugar and tartar.

 

This should be stiff peaks

 

 

5. Add 1/3 of B into A and fold in. 

 

 



 

 

1/3 mixed in.

 

Mix the remainder egg whites into the A.

 

Note : You can line the base of your tube pan with greaseproof paper which I didn't next time I will try to do it.

Pour the mixture into your tube pan.

 

Bake at the lower rack. Mine is old oven. I baked at 180 degree celcius for 35 mins.

The cook book says 175 degree celcius for 40 mins.

This is at 30 mins.

 

After 35 mins, I took out and immediately inverted onto the cooling rack. 

 

Remove the cake after it has cooled down.

 

 

Nicely risen, not bad for my first attempt!!

 

Yes, it is yummy and fluffy and soft!

 

Happy Baking!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apple Loaf

Apple Loaf  Recipe is from Martha Day cookbook.  It is a marvellous cookbook with so many recipes yet to try them all!

 

 

Ingredients :

1 egg, 250ml bottled or homemade apple sauce, 55 g melted butter or margarine, 110 g dark brown sugar, 50 g caster sugar, 285 g plain flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 n 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg (i replace with 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg), 70 g currants or raisins, 55 g pecans or walnut chopped

 

 

1. Preheat 180 degree celcius oven. Line and grease your loaf tin.

2.Break the egg into the bowl and beat lightly. Stir in the apple sauce, melted butter and brown and caster sugar. Set aside.

 

 

 

 

 

3. In another bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Fold the dry ingredients into the apple sauce mixture in 3 batches.

 

 

4. Stir in the raisins and walnuts.

 

 

 

5. Pour into prepared tin and bake until skewer comes out clean. About 1 hr. Let stand 10 mins. Turn out onto a rack and cool completely. The top of loaf will be slightly hard. It smells really wonderful and the inside is very soft.

 

 

 

Enjoy cooking!

 

 

 

Hawaiian Pizza

I bought a new round Pizza tray and it comes with a recipe from Willow brand.  I wasn't sure if I can make the tomato puree so I bought the ready made sachet pizza sauce.  4 sachets which I can use to make 4 pizzas.  The bottle type says have to use within 4 weeks and it is not so practical.

 

Hawaiian Pizza - :)

 

This is quite a good pizza dough except the sides a little bit harder.  So maybe you can reduce the baking time a little.

Pizza pan is 28cm round.

 

Ingredients for the Pizza dough

15 grams yeast (I used 14 grams)

2 teaspoons of honey

300 ml lukewarm water.

500 gms plain flour

 

Dough method :

 

 

1.  Blend the yeast and honey in the bowl.

 

After blending.

 

 

2. Stir in the water and let it stand for 5 minutes.

 

3. Sift the flour into another bowl.  Make a well in the centre and pour in the yeast liquid.

 

 

Knead into a soft dough. 

 

Optional - i rub a little olive oil round the dough and cover with cling wrap.

Place in a warm area to rise about 30 minutes.

 

Dough after 30 mins.

 

Ingredients for pizza toppings

 

1 sachet of pizza sauce (or you make your own - half cup tomato puree and mix herbs)

Mozzarella grated cheese.

2 chicken sausages cut into slices ( or ham or salami)

Some cut up pineapples

Some cut up swiss brown mushrooms

 

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius.  Spread a little olive oil to your pizza tray.  28 inch round tray.

2. Use 2/3 of the dough to press evenly onto the base of the tray.

3.  Spread the pizza sauce or tomato puree.

 

 

Top the mozzarella cheese

 

Top the the rest of the ingredients.

 

Cover with more mozarella cheese.

 

Bake for about 35 mins or until the pizza base is crisp and topping is bubbly.

 

The pizza cut into 8 pcs.

 

 

 

The rest of the dough you can make into bread rolls.

 

Mix some olive oil with garlic powder and spread over the rolls.  Top with some cheese.

 

Bake at 180 degree celcius for about 15 mins.

 

 

Eat these with some cream soup would be great!