The other day, I remembered the chiffon cake recipe I once knew by heart way back when I was in High School. It has been a while I haven’t made it and somehow my taste buds are itching for it then I came to realize that it is not in my journal. My sister used to make chiffon custard but I haven’t made it myself. Usually I ice the cake with royal icing for birthdays and other occasions which I sell as my extra income; that was a decade ago when I was still a student. The chiffon cake I knew and my sister’s custard recipe should be fine I thought. I remember how she told me how to do it. Knowing the chiffon cake, I was confident that I wouldn’t go wrong and so happy it turned out good. I was more than glad to indulge myself for a few bites and shared some to our neighbor.
Ingredients: (good for 9 inch x 9 inch x1.5 inch square pan)
For caramel layer:
¼ cup sugar
For Custard Layer
1 cup evaporated milk
½ cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1 Tablespoon custard powder
For Chiffon cake layer:
Mixture 1: (yolk mixture)
2 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
¼ cup oil
½ cup milk
1½ cup self raising flour (sifted)
1 tsp. Vanilla essence
Mixture 2: (egg white mixture)
5 egg whites
½ cup caster sugar (sifted)
¼ tsp cream of tartar
Procedure:
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C (gas mark 5)
- Prepare the caramel layer. With a low heat, caramelize the sugar in the 9 x 9 x 1.5 inch square baking pan until sugar turns dark brown and coats the bottom of the pan. Be careful; this happens so quickly. Tilt the pan from time to time to spread the caramel. Leave the caramel to cool and set.
- Separate egg white from yolks taking care that the bowl for the egg white is completely clean, dry and free of dust. To save time in preparation, prepare 3 mixing bowls, 1 large bowl for egg white mixture, another for custard mixture and another for yolk mixture. When separating the egg white from yolks, place 3 yolks in one bowl (for custard mixture) and 2 yolks on the other (for cake mixture 1) Set aside the bowl of egg white far from other ingredients.
- Prepare the custard mixture. In a mixing bowl, mix egg yolk, sugar, milk and custard powder. Mix altogether until all well combined. Set aside.
- Prepare cake mixture 1(yolk mixture). In a separate mixing bowl, mix egg yolk and sugar, add oil, milk, sifted flour and vanilla essence. Mix well until well combined.
- Prepare egg white mixture. Before start beating the egg white, make sure the sugar is ready at the side. Add cream of tartar to egg white mixture. Using electric mixer, beat eggs at speed 1, when the egg white is bubbly increase to speed 2 until it forms a very soft peak; increase to speed 3 at this stage, gradually add sugar while beating until the mixture forms a stiff peak. Do not over beat.
- Using the same beaters, beat the cake mixture 1 to make sure it hasn’t set and all ingredients are well mixed.
- Fold-in the cake mixture 1 to cake mixture 2 using a rubber spatula until well combined but still airy. Take care not to over mix.
- Pour the prepared custard mixture into the prepared cake pan with caramel set at the bottom.
- Carefully pour the cake mixture to the center of the cake pan over the custard mixture. Level the cake mixture by pushing it to the corners and sides of the pan.
The cake now has 3 layers; caramel at the bottom, custard in the middle and the cake mixture at the top.
- Place the cake in the middle tray of the oven and pour boiling water in the tray until about half inch deep. The tray of water acts like a double boiler.
- Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour at 200 degrees C. Test the cake pressing the cake lightly. If it springs back, its done, or insert a toothpick and if comes out clean, it is done. Take note not to open the oven when the before 45 minutes had passed, this will alter the rising of the cake.
- Allow to cool down in a rack and trace the sides of the pan with a spatula or knife to separate the sides of the cake from the pan. Using a cake tray, turn to flip the cake over. The caramel layer becomes the top layer.
19 comments:
Looks really good.
Paz
I have never had a chiffon custard cake before...it looks absolutely fabulous!
wow. these look really good. =) you should go on a foodie business.
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ate grace, just want 2 ask what type of sugar should i use for the custard layer and chiffon cake layer (yolk mixture)? granulated? i would like to bake this cake for christmas eve's dinner. (ambisyosa kaayo hehehe) by the way, i religiously followed your yellow cupcake recipe and it turned out great....my husband and son loved it. they kept on asking for more:) dghang slmat----kismet (bisayang tga-UK)
Hi Kismet, glad you tried some of the recipes here.
You can use refined sugar, though caster sugar is recommended to achieve a fine texture. I'm not sure with granulated sugar as it tends to be grainy, however you can sift it before using and discard the grainy bits.
hi ate grace, i've baked this one last night. it didn't turned out as perfect as yours. the chiffon cake didn't rise. what could have gone wrong? what do you think?:)---Kismet
Hi Kismet, sorry about the failure. Chiffon is one of the fragile cakes to do but once you have perfected it, it is so easy and addictive.
There are some reasons why chiffon cake fails to rise and most common scenario is on the eggwhite where the texture of chiffon cake depends on. Few tips on working with eggwhites:
- eggs should be at room temperature,wash the eggs and wipe dry so that there is not a drop of water gets into the eggwhite.
-Make sure the mixing bowl is completely dry and dust-free
-Add sugar little by little at soft peak, continue beating until stiff peak and do not over beat.
- when folding in the egg white to the yolk mixture, do not overmix it as you have to keep air(from the eggwhite) as much as possible. Overmixing it would liquify the mixture and you'll end up like a pie.
Chiffon cake is very sensitive when it comes to timing (i.e. make sure that the oven has been pre-heated before you start mixing so that the cake mixture dont stay too long at room temperature)
Once the cake mixture is in the oven, do not open it every now and then to check, wait for atleast 45 minutes to check if it is done.
It is also recommended that once the cake is done, switch off the oven and keep the cake inside until it cools to room temperature to avoild sudden change of temperature. Sudden change of temp could cause the cake to collapse.
I hope you'll make it better next time.. and I hope this comment is helpful.
Happy baking.
ate grace, i just remembered now that my cake mixture 1 didn't look as liquidy as yours. It seemed to have a stiffer texture...heheh...oh well, i'll try again....thanks so much for your tips.
it look wonderful..i also wanna try but the problem is i dont have evaporated milk and i cant find it here...is there anything that i can use instead of it? thanks so much
looks so goos.i wanna try this.
Thank you for the recipe! I made it today and it turned out pretty good. My pregnant self is very satisfied, my baby is too! Thanks again :)
cherry.. glad u did ... its a pleasure to share.
i tried it but the problem was ,i didn't have evaporated milk and i couln't find it here... I used regular milk instead and it was not firm enough .is there anything that i can use instead of evaporated milk? thanks so much
i tried it but the problem was ,i didn't have evaporated milk and i couln't find it here... I used regular milk instead and it was not firm enough .is there anything that i can use instead of evaporated milk? thanks so much
whats the size of the egg for this chiffon cake? can I use medium size one?
Large eggs would be great!
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