Easy Castella Cake (poundcake)
Easy Castella Cake (poundcake)

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Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) Hey everyone, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy castella cake (poundcake). It is one of my favorites.

Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy castella cake (poundcake) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
  1. Get 2/3 C (100 g) cake flour
  2. Make ready 2/3 C (100 g) unsalted butter
  3. Make ready 2/3 C (100 g) milk
  4. Take 4-6 egg yolks
  5. Get 4-6 egg whites
  6. Get 2/3 C (100 g) organic sugar
  7. Prepare 1-2 tsp Dominican style vanilla*
  8. Take Dominican vanilla
  9. Take Can be found in the Caribbean section in your supermarket

Here is how you achieve that. Bring one of Japan's favourite baked desserts into your home with this traditional castella sponge cake recipe. Who can resist the moist and sweet Japanese honey sponge cake made with egg, bread flour, honey, and sugar. Use of this website is subject to mandatory arbitration and other terms and conditions, select this link to read those agreements.

Instructions to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
  1. Separate egg yolks from the whites and place them both in separate bowls. Set aside.
  2. In a bowl, sift the cake flour. Also set aside. In a small pot place butter and milk and let it melt over medium heat stirring occasionally. Once you see a few bubbles on the sides turn off. Pour this over the cake flour (while warm) and whisk until smooth.
  3. Whisk egg whites and sugar until a smooth meringue is form. Soft peaks is a good sign of how far to whisk it. After doing this, combine the meringue with the cake batter and mix together well.
  4. Pre-heat oven to a low 305 F
  5. In a baking pan (square is preferred) line it with wax paper (baking paper) on all sides. This will help the cake not stick to the pan and will make it easy to take out. Tap pan gently ontop of a kitchen towel to get air bubbles out. Since this is a pound cake made of mostly yolks, you will need to place the pan in a shallow baking tray and do a marybain (water bath) which means you have to place the pan in the tray and pour hot water gently to cover up to half way of the pan.
  6. Once you do this step, place the cake batter into the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes. Insert a tooth pick around 50 minute mark to see if it comes out clean.
  7. Tip: you can also bake this in your rice/slow cooker!!! Instead of a pan, oil your rice pot and pour batter. Cook it for 50 minutes. If it is still too light and a bit "wet" continue cooking for ten more minutes. Here is the third try this time in the rice cooker.

This pillow-like sponge cake is the Taiwanese old school sponge cake. They are extremely soft, fluffy and full of egg flavour. Very simple yet classic and delicious cake. First, start by lining the loaf pan with a parchment paper. You can lightly brush the pan with oil to help the parchment paper stick to the pan.

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