Wednesday 3 June 2015

Condensed Milk Mocha Cotton Cake 咖啡可可炼乳棉花蛋糕


This is another great recipe I adapted from Sharon's <幸福之味>.  To me, plain coffee and cocoa taste bland without milk. Therefore, in this recipe condensed milk and butter were used to bring out the aroma of these robust ingredients in the cake. In spite of the long baking time, the cake tasted moist and soft as it was steam-baked.

Yield: one 15 cm round cake
Cake mould: 6" round cake mould
Baking temperature & time:
170 degree Celsius for 40 minutes with only upper heating, lower rack.
Reduce to 150 degree Celsius for 20 to 30 minutes, upper & lower heating

Ingredients
All ingredients in room temperature
60g eggs

40g cake flour
3 tsp instant coffee powder
7g cocoa powder

3 egg yolks 
1 egg

40g unsalted butter
50g condensed milk
Pinch of salt

3 egg whites
40g fine sugar

1 tsp icing sugar for sprinkling


Directions
1. Line a 6" round cake pan with a small piece of parchment paper if you are using a fixed base cake pan. This is to facilitate removal of cake from the pan.
You may omit this step if you are using a 6" removal base cake pan. But need to wrap the base with aluminum foil.


2. Add instant coffee powder and cocoa powder to top/cake flour to make up a total mass of 50g. Mix and loosen the flour mixture using a hand whisk. Set aside.



3.  In a separate bowl, blend 3 egg yolks with one whole egg.


4. Heat butter till you see small bubbles start to form at the bottom of the melted butter.
Do not over heat the oil as we don't want the melted butter to fry the flour.






5. Remove the bowl of warm melted butter from the stove, add in the flour and fold till smooth paste formed.



6. Mix in the condensed milk.



7. Add (6) to (3) , and mix into a smooth batter.
Ensure the mixture (6) is not too hot before adding to the egg mixture, to avoid cooking the egg mixture.



8. Mix in a pinch of salt. Cover and set aside.



9. Beat egg white till frothy, for about 30 seconds. Add in the sugar, in 3 batches.

10. Beat at medium high speed at the start and reduce to low speed towards the end of the process. Beat the meringue till almost reaching the stiff peak stage. The standing meringue has a slight dip at the tip.


11. Scoop about 1/3 of the meringue into the batter at (8). Fold to combine.


12. Pour the batter back to the remaining meringue and fold to mix into a smooth batter.







13. Pour the batter into the 6" round cake mould. Lightly bang the cake mould a few times to remove any trapped air bubbles in the batter.



14. Place the cake pan in a tray of 1cm-deep hot water. 
Steam-bake the batter in a preheated oven set at 170 degree Celsius with only the upper heating coil for 40 minutes at lower rack of the oven. 


After 40 minutes, reduce the oven temperature to 150 degree Celsius with both upper and lower heating, for another 30 minutes*.
If the cake brown too fast, covers it with an aluminum foil.
* If you use smaller than 60g egg, you may need about 20 instead of 30 minutes. If the cake stop rising, the cake is about done.

Oven temperature and baking duration may differ based on individual oven.

End of baking.

15. Remove the cake from the oven. 

Immediately drop the cake with the mould from a height of about 7 to 8cm for 3 times. This helps to prevent the cake from over shrinking during cooling.

16. Cool the cake in the mould on a cooling rack for about 20 minutes. 
While the cake is still warm, runs a silicon spatula along the edge of the cake. Remove the cake from the cake mould and cool down on a wire rack. This is to prevent accumulation of moisture at the base of the cake.






17. You may want to dry the sides of the cake by keeping it in the remnant heat of the oven for about 20 minutes. Or, turn on the oven to 90 degree Celsius for 2 minutes, then let the cake stays for 15 minutes.

18. After the cake has completely cooled to room temperature, slice the cake and sprinkle icing sugar over the top.




19. The cake is best serve after refrigerated for 2 hours :)


Great appreciation to the recipe I adapted from


15 comments:

  1. hi,第一次到访,妳好棒哦!
    棉花蛋糕烤得真是美极了,看得我又心痒痒想马上动手做呢!哈哈!
    无奈何最近有点忙,暂时没时间烤蛋糕,就欣赏妳家美美的棉花蛋糕吧!赞!

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    1. Hi Sharon, 谢谢你,很开心您来我的部落格看看,嘻嘻。我也一样,看的漂亮的蛋糕或面包,就想动手做。在您那偷了不少idea 和食谱,嘻嘻, 很开心 :)

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  2. Hi, may I know where did you buy your 6" tall pan ? Is it 7-8 cm tall ? I am only able to get those 2" tall .. Thanks ! Anna

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    1. Hi Anna, you can purchase the 3" tall cake pan from Phoon Huat. But the 6" diameter round pan is a "rare" stock there. I visited at 4 times before getting hold of this size. Good luck in your search :)

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  3. Hi , if my oven do not have only upper heating , what temp hould I set at?

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    1. Hi Joyce,
      The original recipe suggested to bake in a 20-cm square pan placed in the middle rack, and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 175 degree Celsius without water bath.
      The method used in my recipe was for oven that tends to have a hotter bottom heating element, which tends to cause cake to have a cracked top 😊

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  4. Hi Ngai leng. Your recipes are always very creative and nice!
    I tried to create this mocha chiffon cake but i have a problem with it becoming wet on the top after 1st day. Any reason why?

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  5. Hi,

    My oven only has top n bottom heat, can't do top or bottom heat alone.
    Can u advise how I can bake this cake please?
    Thank u!

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    1. Hi Grace, with reference to other similar recipe, you can preheat the oven to 180 degree C for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 170 degree C and bake for 10 minutes, further reduce the temperature to 150 degree C and bake for 45 minutes. At the end of baking, let the cake stays in the oven for 5 minutes. Hope this work for your oven :)

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    2. Thank u so much for taking the trouble to research for me, will try it! 🙏🙏

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    3. Haha, no problem, I learned in the process, too 😊💕

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  6. Hi can you tell me how to convert the amounts for a 8 inch pan? I don’t have a 6 inch

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  7. Thanks for the recipe.can I ask why do I occasionally get a very thin parchment like layer at the bottom of the cake. Otherwise the cake texture is fine.

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  8. Hi.may I know is this sponge cake suitable with the icing?And if i would like to make 8" cake,how much ingredients shall i add?

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