Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy castella cake (poundcake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Since this is a pound cake made of mostly yolks, you will need to place the pan in a shallow baking tray and do a marybain (water bath) which means you have to place the pan in the tray and pour hot water gently to cover up to half way of the pan. Here is how you achieve it. Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy castella cake (poundcake).
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy castella cake (poundcake) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
- Make ready 2/3 C (100 g) cake flour
- Take 2/3 C (100 g) unsalted butter
- Take 2/3 C (100 g) milk
- Make ready 4-6 egg yolks
- Take 4-6 egg whites
- Get 2/3 C (100 g) organic sugar
- Get 1-2 tsp Dominican style vanilla*
- Get Dominican vanilla
- Get Can be found in the Caribbean section in your supermarket
After talking with my father about castella, I had a craving for some. I checked a cooking book, but since the recipe was different from what I wanted, I adjusted it to come up with my own. All of the ingredients must be. I really love the making of Castella Cakes since they are really light and simple, cheap to make, and easily as enjoyable as other bakes.
Instructions to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
- Separate egg yolks from the whites and place them both in separate bowls. Set aside.
- In a bowl, sift the cake flour. Also set aside. In a small pot place butter and milk and let it melt over medium heat stirring occasionally. Once you see a few bubbles on the sides turn off. Pour this over the cake flour (while warm) and whisk until smooth.
- Whisk egg whites and sugar until a smooth meringue is form. Soft peaks is a good sign of how far to whisk it. After doing this, combine the meringue with the cake batter and mix together well.
- Pre-heat oven to a low 305 F
- In a baking pan (square is preferred) line it with wax paper (baking paper) on all sides. This will help the cake not stick to the pan and will make it easy to take out. Tap pan gently ontop of a kitchen towel to get air bubbles out. Since this is a pound cake made of mostly yolks, you will need to place the pan in a shallow baking tray and do a marybain (water bath) which means you have to place the pan in the tray and pour hot water gently to cover up to half way of the pan.
- Once you do this step, place the cake batter into the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes. Insert a tooth pick around 50 minute mark to see if it comes out clean.
- Tip: you can also bake this in your rice/slow cooker!!! Instead of a pan, oil your rice pot and pour batter. Cook it for 50 minutes. If it is still too light and a bit "wet" continue cooking for ten more minutes. Here is the third try this time in the rice cooker.
All of the ingredients must be. I really love the making of Castella Cakes since they are really light and simple, cheap to make, and easily as enjoyable as other bakes. You can attain most of the tips, and even pictures through the first Castella Cake recipe I have produced through here, My Lemon Castella Cake recipe. Just a few quick tips and question answering, most of which are common to that of the link above but I find. Who can resist the moist and sweet Japanese honey sponge cake made with egg, bread flour, honey, and sugar.
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