Earl Grey Milk Tea Steamed Cake in Cups

How about a cuppa of Earl Grey Milk Tea Steamed Cake???

These milk tea cakes goes with with chocolates though...hehehehe...

Unfortunately, those chocolate chips were excellent for baking in the oven but not for steaming as they totally melt as the heat rises...:-p Nevertheless, these cakes tasted excellent.

Do not have too much expectations of these cakes though. These steamed cakes are very simple, plain ones. It is excellent for people who prefer a slightly bland taste, not so sweet steamed cake.

As most of you would have realised, most of the steamed cakes that I had attempted are rather healthy I would say:-D

For me, I do enjoyed these steamed cakes very well. What about you?

For Earl Grey Tea lovers, you might wish to try them???

Ingredients:

1 egg

40g sugar

1 earl grey tea bag

50ml hot water

100ml milk

100g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp canola oil

Method:

1. Soak the tea bag in the hot water for about 3 mins. Add in the milk, and boil over low heat for about 5 mins. Set aside to cool for latter use.

2. Lightly coat the cups with oil, and set aside.

3. Mix egg & sugar until sugar had dissolved. Add in the cool milk tea, mix well.

4. Add in the sieved flour+baking powder, mix until well blended. Add in the oil and mix until well combined.

5. Pour the batter into the cups and steam over medium high heat for about 12-15 mins.

I am submitting this to Aspiring Bakers #25 – Steaming Hot Cakes (November 2012) hosted by Miss B of Everybody Eats Well in Flanders

Durian Chiffon Cake

After trying the durian cupcakes, I had leftover durian puree.. So I decided to try baking a Durian Chiffon Cake. My friend Eileen had given me 2 durian recipes to be attempted, and this is the 2nd one... Let's see how we fair in this Durian Chiffon.

 I had added fresh durian puree, not too sure how much 1/2 cup of durian puree will be, I had used about 125g of them. The batter came out abit stiff, very difficult to combined, but after adding in the durian puree, it became more manageable.
There wasn't any durian smell after I added in the puree, so I was crossing my fingers to see how this chiffon will turn out to be....

Mmmmm, not too bad... While baking half way through, the fragrant of the durian came by... and the whole house was smelling of durian. Nic on the other hand was telling me that it was so smelly... whereas for me, I was waiting for the outcome of this chiffon...:))

The texture of the chiffon came out not too bad, soft & fluffly, but it was a little little dense. But overall of it, it was very tasty!

So if you like durian, you might like to give this a try too?

Recipe as adapted from My Kitchen,

Ingredients (8"):
A
4 egg yolks
20gm caster sugar
40gm vegetable cooking oil
30ml milk (I used 40ml)¼ tsp salt
½ tsp durian essence (optional) (I omitted)
B
100gm cake flour (or 85gm all purpose flour + 15gm cornflour)
½ tsp baking powder

C
4 egg whites
100gm caster sugar
⅛ tsp cream of tartar

D½ cup durian flesh, pureed ( I used about 125g)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 170 degree C.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together ingredients A until combined.
3. Sift together ingredients B, then add into (2) and mix well. Set aside for later use.
4. In another large mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks. Add in sugar and cream of tartar and continue to beat until stiff.
5. Take ¼ of the meringue and mix with (3) until well mixed. Gradually add in remaining meringue, and lastly stir in durian puree. Stir until just combined.
6. Transfer batter into chiffon pan and bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
7. Invert the cake immediately after taking out from oven, and cool on rack completely before turning out from mould.