Steamed Chocolate Cake

Do you like chocolate? Power Ranger fan? Decided to make a double action pack combo specially for MP and friend, Lukas.

The edible icing deco (my first time using this) which really makes this cake look totally professional! Very easy too, just bake the cake, ice it and lay the edible icing on top. Btw, the icing as you may have guessed, is not tasty at all!

Saw this recipe a long time ago but just never got around to trying it. Guess the main reason is that I am not good at steaming stuff. There are 'tricks' to handle the water vapour but if I can manage this, so can you!

Unless you have a 6 or 7 inch cake tin, please note that this recipe recipe yields a fairly low cake. So if you don't mind short cakes, I would recommend doubling the amount for a taller cake using 7 or 8 inch cake tin.

Used recipe shared by Happy Flour

Ingredients
95g unsalted butter, room temperature
30g dark brown sugar
20g caster sugar (note that original recipe stated 110g)
2 eggs
110g cake flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
30g cocoa powder
60g evaporated milk + 20g water (original recipe requested for 80g evaporated milk)
24g Horlicks
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Method

1. Prepare steamer and grease 6 or 7 inch cake tin.
2. Sift dry ingredients together.
3. Mix evaporated milk, horlicks and vanilla extract together, set aside.
4. Cream butter for 2 min, then add salt and sugar and continue to cream mixture until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in eggs slowly.
6. Fold in flour and liquid alternatively until well combine. Do not overmix.
7. Cover cake tin with aluminium foil and steam for 40-50 min or until skewer in middle comes out clean.
8. Tap cake tin light on counter two or three times to settle the bubbles.
9. Cool cake in tin for 10 min and then remove and cool completely on wire rack.
   

For the ganache, I used:
100g dark chocolate
20g unsalted butter

1. Melt the above and stir until smooth.
2. Spread onto cooled cake and decorate.

What did I think of the cake? I'm glad to have tried it and satisfied my curiosity. It is a soft cake but in terms of taste, I still prefer a slice of American Choc Cake.