Banana Cake

Recipe:
- 90g oil
- 90g castor sugar
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 125g cake flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3 bananas, mashed with a fork
- 25g milk
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Steps:
1. Beat egg and sugar till light and creamy.
2. Combines milk, mashed bananas, oil and vanilla essence.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together cake flour, baking powder and baking soda, mix it.
4. Fold in flours into the wet ingredients until no traces of flour remain.
5. Pour into a lined 6-inch round tray.
6. Bake at 175 degree celsius for about 55mins, or until cooked. (Can tend the cake with aluminium foil to prevent the top from burning)

Marble Pound Cake

Woke up at 5:30am and ..... Bake my Marble Pound Cake ^_^

Marble Cake Recipe:

55 grams ~ bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 tablespoon brewed coffee or espresso
290 grams ~ cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
113 grams ~ unsalted butter, room temperature
250 grams ~ granulated white sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
180 ml ~ sour cream or plain yogurt
80 ml ~ milk


1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Butter, or spray with a non stick spray, a loaf pan.

2) Place the grease paper on the loaf pan.

3) In a stainless steel bowl, placed over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the semisweet chocolate with the coffee. Remove from heat and set aside.

4) In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.

5) In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Gradually add the sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is light and fluffy (about 3-5 minutes). Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract and sour cream.

6) With the mixer on low speed alternately add the flour mixture and the milk to the batter, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour.

7) After preparing the batter, pour half of the batter into a separate bowl. Stir the melted chocolate into one half of the batter, mixing well. Place the batter into the prepared pan by alternating spoons of vanilla batter and chocolate batter. Then, with the end of a wooden spoon, gently draw swirls through the batter to marbleize it. Don't over mix or you won't have that wonderful marble affect.

9) Bake for about 45 - 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes before removing the cake from the pan to cool completely. Serve warm or at room temperature. This cake will keep for a couple of days at room temperature or it can be frozen.

source: http://www.joyofbaking.com/MarbleCake.html

Orange Chiffon Cake

Ingredients:
6 large eggs, separated plus 1 (30 grams) additional egg white
225g sifted cake flour
300g superfine white (castor) sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
120 ml vegetable oil or safflower oil
180 ml freshly squeezed orange juice
10 grams orange zest
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
80g raisins

Steps:
1) Separate the eggs and place the whites in one bowl and the yolks in another. Bring them to room temperature (about 30 minutes).

2) Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (170 degrees C) and have ready a 10 inch (25 cm) two piece tube pan(ungreased).

3) In a bowl, place the flour, sugar (260g), baking powder, and salt. Beat until combined. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the egg yolks, oil, orange juice, orange zest, and vanilla extract. Beat about one minute or until smooth.

4) In a separate bowl, with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and continue to beat until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the remaining 40g of sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. With a large rubber spatula or wire whisk, gently fold the egg whites into the batter just until blended.

5) Add in the raisins.

6) Pour the batter into the ungreased tube pan and bake for about 55 to 60 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. (When lightly pressed the cake will spring back). Immediately upon removing the cake from the oven invert the pan and place on a bottle or flat surface so it is suspended over the counter.

7) Let the cake cool completely before removing from pan (about 1 1/2 - 2 hours).

8) To remove the cake from the pan, run a long metal spatula around the inside of the tube pan and center core. Invert onto a greased wire rack.

Banana-Raisin Butter Cake

Ingredients:
250g Butter
230g Caster Sugar
5 Egg
1 Tablespoon Milk
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
200g Banana (4 Units), Mashed
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
280g Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
3 Bananas, Sliced
80g Raisin

Utensils:
Baking Pan (50 x 250 x 250 mm)

Method:
1) Peel the banana and mash well with a fork.
2) Prepare the rest of the ingredients. The banana is sliced as shown.
3) Cream the butter in a mixing bowl.
4) Beat in the caster sugar until light and fluffy.
5) Add the beaten eggs gradually.
6) Add the milk and vanilla essence.
7) Add the bananas to the cake mixture.
8) Fold in the flour and baking powder with spatula in one direction, either clockwise or anti-clockwise.
9) Add the raisin.
10) Pile the cake mixture into loaf pan. Add the sliced banana on top of mixture as decoration. Bake at 180 degree celcius for 45-50 minutes.

Marble Butter Cake 大理石蛋糕

Spent about 2 hours to make the Marble Cake last night. Only can try it this morning as I don't like eat right before going to bed. Taste ok and my friends like it. ^_^

Ingredients:
Butter 200g
Caster Sugar 140g
Vanilla Essence 1/2 teaspoon
Egg (lightly beaten) 200g
Cake Flour 200g
Baking Powder 1 teaspoon
Baking Soda 1/4 teaspoon
Cocoa Powder 20g
7cm x 8cm x 28xm cake tray

1) Place the grease paper on the cake tray.
2) Mix the butter with caster sugar using electric mixer.
3) Add in vanilla essence follow by egg, whisk using high speed.
4) Combine the ingredients with cake flour and baking powder, with a rubber spatula, lightly fold the ingredients.
5) Take 300g of the ingredients from step 4, add baking soda and cocoa powder. Fold the ingredients with spatula.
6) Use spatula to place ingredients from step 4 into the tray follow by the ingredients from step 5. Use spatula to slightly mix them to form marble
7) Preheat the oven with 180 degree Celsius and bake for 30 to 35 mins.

Banana-Strawberry Chiffon Cake became Banana Cake

昨晚第二次尝试做 banana chiffon cake。这次我家的 Chris 哥要做我的助手，一起玩 baking。他还建议放3条香蕉，因为他爱吃。

在Chris哥的协助下，果然 baking效率比较好了。起码比自己一个人做比较快，比较好玩。哈哈。

这次买了 Electric Mixer，希望可以成功。第一次的失败，怀疑是因为没有用 Electric Mixer，且份量不够。这次有了 Electric Mixer和足够份量，应该接近成功了吧。

从准备材料，筛粉，手搅拌蛋黄 + 面粉 + strawberry jam，电搅拌蛋白，一直到将混合面团放入 Tube Pan都还顺利。将 Tube Pan放入 Electric Oven, 调了170 C, 40 mins （之前 preheat了5mins），开始 baking 了。 Chris 哥一直进进出出厨房，迫不及待等待它的出炉。

终于，它 ~ 新鲜出炉了。让他冷却 5 mins后便用 Plastic Scraper 把成品移出来。

它，和我之前所做的很相似。这代表，又一次的失败了 x_X 。聊以自慰的是这次比较好，它比较松软。可还是属于香蕉糕多于 Chiffon Cake。

带着少许的失望，心想　“到底哪里出差错了”？并不会太失望，因为这是自己上网找 recipe，自学的。我告诉Chris 哥，还是 Muffin Cake 比较容易做，simple cake 也。Chris 哥意犹未尽，听我说　Muffin Cake 比较容易做，说明天要做　Muffin Cake, 还问我材料够不够。我回应他说，材料是够的，你需要什么口味的就告诉我，如果没有，就去买咯。






希望我下午去跑了 25km marathon后，明天还能够陪你做 Muffin Cake咯。

p/s: Housemates keep on reminding me "Yin Jie, if you can't finish the 25km run or anything unpredictable happens, remember to call us to seek for help x_X"