heart-shaped steamed banana cake

Valentine Day's round the corner.  How about some heart-shaped cupcakes?

After placing liners in a regular cupcake tin, place a marble or small ball of aluminum foil in each well between the liner and the tin to create a heart-shaped indent.  Fill it up with batter and starts baking/steaming your cake.

Happy Valentine's!

steamed banana cake

Min loves doing this... mashing the bananas!

Ingredients
> 500g ripen bananas ('pisang berangan')
> 250g 125g castor sugar 
> 250g low protein flour (sieved) 
> 2 tsp baking soda 
> 2 tsp baking powder
>  1  1/2 tsp cinnamon powder (optional) 
> 1 tsp banana essence
> 150ml less than 70ml corn oil 


Method
[1]  Mash bananas in a big bowl.
[2]  Add in baking soda, mix well and leave aside for 1 hour to leaven.
[3]  Add in castor sugar and stir a little.
[4]  Add in other ingredients (low protein flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder, banana essence).
[5]  Mix well and leave aside for another 1 hour.
[6]  Lastly add in corn oil.  Fold well and rest for 10 minutes.
[7]  Spoon into small moulds lined with paper cups.
[8]  Steam cake for 15 minutes.

For this cake (8" square), steaming time is about 45 minutes

fatt gou (发糕) for prayers

Ingredients
> 200g rice flour 
> 50g corn flour 
> 80g icing sugar
> 240ml water
> a few drops of red colouring 
> 1 packet of ENO

Method
[1] Mix all ingredients together except ENO.
[2] Boil water in wok. 
[3] When the water is boiling, add in ENO and give it a quick stir.
[4] Pour into small moulds, line with paper cup.
[5] Steam for 15 minutes.

Note:  This recipe makes about 15 pcs. of "huat kuih".

steamed chocolate moisture cake

Ingredients [A]

> 180g butter
> 180g castor sugar
> 200ml evaporated milk

Ingredient [B]
> 2 large eggs

Ingredients [C]
> 100g low protein flour
> 50g cocoa powder
> 1/2 tsp baking powder
> 1/2 tsp baking soda 

Method

[1]  Double boil Ingredients A and mix well.
[2]  Let it to cool.

[3]  Add in the eggs.
[4]  Sieve Ingredients B, divide into 2 parts and mix into Ingredients A.
[5]  Line a cake tin, pour mixture into it.

[6]  Steam cake for 45 minutes.
[7]  Chill before serving.

steamed white sugar sponge cake (白糖糕)

Ingredients

> 140g rice flour
> 100g sugar
> 300ml water (divide into 2 portion)
> 3 pcs pandan leaves 
> 1/4 tsp salt 
> 1/2 tsp instant yeast
> 1 tbsp water
> 1 tsp corn oil

Method

[1]  Put in 150ml water, sugar, salt, pandan leaves into a pot.
[2]  Heat up the pot, using small fire, until sugar is dissolve.

[3]  Put rice flour and the other 150ml water into another pot.  Mix well until flour is dissolve.
[4]  Add in sugar mixture from previous pot and mix well.

[5]  Mix yeast with 1 tbsp water in a small cup.  Put aside for 10 minutes.

[6]  Pour yeast mixture into pot.
[7]  Cover pot and put aside to let it ferment for 2 hours.
[8]  Get a 6" cake tray and wipe base with corn oil.
[9]  After fermentation, add in 1 tsp corn oil into pot mixture.  Mix well.
[10]  Pour mixture into cake tray and steam with big fire for 25 minutes.

steamed pandan cake

Ingredients
> 2 eggs
> 168ml fresh milk
> 250g sugar
> 2 tsp double action baking powder
> 2 tsp sponge quick (sponge stabilizer/ovalett)
> 300g low protein flour (sieved)
> 10 tsp pandan juice

Method
[1]  Mix ingredients into mixing bowl and beat until fluffy.

[2]  Put paper cups into cup mould.

[3]  Pour in batter.
[4]  Arrange cup moulds in wok and steam for 15 minutes.