Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake

I'm now an avid follower of Ms Suanne's steam recipes :) You should try one of her recipes.
The instructions comes with photo so it's easier to follow especially for a newbie like me :)

I woke up earlier today to make the Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake.
It turned out wonderful as expected except that there's a crack in the middle LOL.
Before I brought it in the office, I sliced the cake so they won't notice the crack shhhh.
Okay, taste matters most.
It's not too sweet and it's healthier coz its steamed.
Hmmm.. wonder why there's a crack.. maybe because the steaming time should be shorter?
There's always a next time to try :)

Anyways.. my colleagues loved it! And they have requested me to bring it every Friday LOL.


Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

1 & 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 cup water
1 cup sugar (I substituted with 1 & 3/4 Icing sugar)
1/2 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon white vinegar
4 tablespoons oil
a handful of semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:
1. Sift the dry ingredients (i.e. flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder) in a medium bowl.
2. Whisk the sugar and wet ingredients (i.e water, vanilla, vinegar and oil) in a large bowl until the sugar is dissolved.
3. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well.
4. Pour the batter into a greased and floured or parchment lined pan.
Sprinkle a handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips on the batter for garnishing.
5. Steam for 30 minutes in high heat.


Okay.. I know my photos are crappy LOL but the top of the cake is not burnt! It's just dark heheheh

Steamed Banana Cake

I tried another steam recipe today from Ms. Suanne's Chow Times . And it turned out wonderful! So easy! I dont have to beat any eggs until its ribbon-like or stiff *lol* With this recipe you can just combine them all in 1 bowl!!
Im really thankful to have found this recipe :) You can check the website for her step-by-step instructions :) It's soo easy.

Steamed Banana Cake

Ingredients

1 ripe banana, mashed
1 egg (can be substituted with 50ml of milk or water)
1 teaspoon oil
2 teaspoons water
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup icing sugar
100g (2/3 cup to close to 1 cup) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate chips or raisins, optional

Instructions:

1. Place all the ingredients in a small mixing bowl.
2. Mix the ingredients with a fork until well blended.
3. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Steam the cake on a rack for 15 to 18 minutes until a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
4. Remove from the steamer and let the cake cool for a few minutes. Use a knife to loosen the sides of the cake and pop the cake out of the bowl. You may add some chocolate chips if you prefer.



I only used 1-1/2 tsp of baking powder :)
I'm using an electric food steamer and steam it for 30 minutes.
I tried one batch with chocolate chips and one batch without :) Yumm-O!

Leche Flan

This is the dessert that I prepared for my friends last New Year. This is the Philippine version of (caramel) Custard Cake. In the Philippines, this dessert is prepared for special occasions eg, birthdays, baptism etc. There's a video guide in YouTube done by Pat and Byron, Culinary students, in Philippines. It's in 3 parts, presented mostly in Filipino language (I just watched it and followed from there.. the video wasn't that well done.. but hey, they're students give 'em some slack :)


Leche Flan

Ingredients:

12 Egg yolks
2 cans of Condensed Milk
1 can of Evaporated Milk
lemon rind, grated
sugar (white or brown, spread in the aluminum moulds)

Steps:

Caramelize sugar directly into the individual ramekins (I used aluminum moulds).
Tip: You may use Molasses as substitute for sugar. Just spread a few into the ramekins. There's no need to heat. :)

In a mixing bowl, pop all egg yolks
Add all milk (condensed & evap) into the egg yolks and stir.
Stir in one direction only, make sure no big bubbles in the mixture
Mix until well blended.
Mix in the rind.
In another bowl, strain the mixture thrice to remove the bubbles
Put the strained mixture into the ramekins.
Cover the ramekins with aluminum foil before putting in the steamer
Steam for 30-40 minutes.
After steaming, let it rest for 10 minutes more in the steamer.
Mmmmmm.. Yumm-O!

**Jeez, 12 egg yolks?? what to do with the egg whites? Well, i found some rice cake (special puto) recipes that uses egg whites for the sponge cake texture. I tried and failed hehehe.. I haven't achieved yet the proper beating of egg whites and the art of folding.

Steamed Rice Cake

Nowadays, I'm obsessed of trying out steam recipes (aside from health reasons, it consumes less electricty hehehe). Ive been collecting recipes online and have tried some. Ive been planning to start a blogsite for my trial-and-error..and here its. If only I could find one for a recent post. Behold, two days ago, I came across this recipe from Suanne's Chow Times. I suggest that you check out Chow Times to see the step-by-step guide/photos. The photos were a big help indeed for a beginner like me :) I tried and seems I did it! Yumm-O!


(Since I love cheese, I've added some on top of the rice cakes)

Steamed Rice Cake

Ingredients

200g rice flour
200ml coconut milk
160ml boiling water
1 teaspoon double acting baking powder

120g sugar
1 teaspoon double acting baking powder
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions:

1. Sift the rice flour and baking powder (1 teaspoon) into a bowl.
2. Combine rice flour mixture with coconut milk.
3. Mix well until you get a smooth batter.
4. Add boiling water, mix well and set aside to cool.
5. When cool, stir in the 2nd teaspoon of baking powder and set aside for 1 hour.
6. Add sugar to the batter after 1 hour.
7. Also add the vanilla essence.
8. Divide the batter into 2 portions. Add different food colouring to the batter.
9. Line aluminum cups (I used a 6 cups muffin tin) with paper cups. Pour batter into cups until 90% full and leave to rise for 30 minutes. Steam over rapidly boiling water for about 15 minutes.

































** For a beginner like me, don't ever dare lift the steamer cover so soon. After steaming, let it rest for a few minutes :)
** For the steamer that I used, it wasn't done after 20 minutes so I extended for another 10 minutes.
** I've only tried half of this recipe. In case it wont turn out okay, then I'll only eat few hehehe Of course, don't want to go it into waste.
** Since there's a lot of waiting time for this recipe, my patience was tested and it paid off. I'm so going to try this again so I can learn to build more patience.
** Patience is a virtue