Saturday, May 9, 2020

Castella Cake





Ingredients:
  • 100g or 1/2 cup milk
  • 100g or 7tbs unsalted/salted butter
  • 100g or 1 cup flour (低筋)
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 6 egg white
  • 100g or 1/2 cup Sugar
  • Vanilla extract or lemon juice
Instruction:
  1. Heat oven at 300F. Place a pan with water in the oven.
  2. Melt milk and butter on pot in low heat. 
  3. Then mix well with flour. 
  4. Then add in the egg yolks and mix well.
  5. Beat eggs white and gradually add in the sugar. Add lemon juice or vanilla extract. Beat till firm peak.
  6. Then fold the egg white into the ingredients in 3 batches.
  7. Bake at 300 F for 1 hour.




Wednesday, May 6, 2020

White Sugar Rice Cake

白糖糕 / 倫敦糕



https://youtu.be/QRU4tSQYZbM









































Japanese Cotton Cheese Cake

日式輕乳酪蛋糕


https://youtu.be/HV-vaC7nDlo
Another recipe in US measurements:
https://youtu.be/wVb5skPV43A

Ingredients A:
  • 60g milk
  • 50g butter
  • 160g cream cheese
  • 6 egg yolk
  • 50g flour (低筋)
Ingredients B:
  • 6 eggs white 
  • 10g vinegar or lemon juice
  • 75g sugar
Instruction:
  1. Turn in oven 320F and put pan with water into oven to preheat.
  2. Separate egg yolk and egg white.
  3. Cook milk, butter and cream cheese in low heat till melted. Turn off heat.
  4. Add all egg yolk and blend.
  5. Sieve flour and add to the above and mix well.
  6. Beat egg white and vinegar and gradually add sugar (at 3 intervals) and blend till firm peak. Do not over beat as well.
  7. Then add egg white into #5 in 3 batches. 
  8. Fold it well and pour into pan with parchment paper in the bottom. cover top with Aluminum foil.
  9. Bake for 1 hour.
  10. Then remove aluminum foil and bake for another 20 minutes.
  11. High broil for 3 minutes for top to turn golden brown.
  12. Let cool and the cheesecake can be flipped over easily to remove the parchment paper.
  13. Refrigerate it and











 










Below is a result of beating the egg white incorrectly by add all sugars at once instead of gradually and possibly over beat and not reaching firm peak.