Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Coconut Mochi Cake

This is not the dessert for anyone trying to cut back on sugar. Even though I reduced the sugar, it still tastes rather sweet. It's the perfect rainy day treat to nibble on with a hot cup of tea.

Ingredients

1 lb sweet rice flour (1 box of Mochiko)
1 3/4 c. organic granulated sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp sea salt
2 (14 oz) cans unsweetened light coconut milk
5 large eggs
1/4 c. unsalted butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

1. In a large bowl, whisk together rice flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

2. In another large bowl, whisk together eggs, coconut milk, unsalted butter, and vanilla extract.

3. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until a smooth batter forms.

4. Pour batter into an ungreased 13" x 9" baking dish.

5. Bake for 1.5 hours. Let cool for 1.5 hours before cutting into squares and serving.

Source: Gourmet Magazine, May 2005

Lemon Pound Cake

...with six egg yolks. Yeah, so we had all these leftover egg yolks from that brown butter hazelnut cake (which, according to Smitten Kitchen's recipe takes six egg whites if using large eggs) from two weeks ago that I thought I'd toss into this recipe. This cake recipe ordinarily takes just four egg yolks, but I wasn't about to do fancy math with the dry ingredients to accommodate two more egg yolks. I'll soon find out in about an hour if the cake came out okay.

Ingredients

1 c. organic granulated sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1 1/4 c. unbleached all purpose flour, minus 2 tbsp flour
6 egg yolks
1/3 c. half and half (or whole milk)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon extract
zest of one lemon
pinch of kosher salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

1. In a stand mixer: cream butter and sugar together. Add vanilla and lemon extracts. Add lemon juice and lemon zest. Add egg yolks. Beat until pale and fluffy.

2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.

3. While the stand mixer is running (on low), alternate while adding half-and-half and flour. Beat until well combined.

4. Butter a loaf pan and fill with cake mixture. Bake for 50 minutes or until edges of the cake are lightly browned and start to pull away from the sides of the pan.

Let cool on a rack before removing from loaf pan.