castella!

[glass_icarus]

While I'm thinking over more drabbles (prompts still open!), have some foodporn: This tutorial on making castella cake in a rice cooker is making me regret the fact that I don't have a rice cooker that I'd be willing to bake in! ;____;

"How to Make Kasutera (Castella Sponge Cake) Recipe 炊飯器でカステラ レシピ" (Watch on YouTube)

I don't understand the hat she's wearing, but the bit at the end where she's eating the cake with happy noises made me laugh a lot, heh. The recipe can also be found on the youtube page and in Japanese here, but for convenience's sake I've posted it below.

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
  
• 90g (3.2oz. or 3/8 cup) sugar
  
• 45g (1.6oz. or ~1/2c) cake flour*
  
• 45g (1.6oz. or ~3/8c) bread flour (strong flour)*
  
• 2 tbsp. milk
  
• 1 tbsp. honey
  
• butter (to grease the rice cooker/cake container)
  *you can use 90g (3.2oz. or ~3/4c) all purpose flour instead

Directions:

1. Warm the milk in a saucepan. Add honey and mix well.
2. Place the eggs and sugar in a large bowl. Beat them with an electric mixer until white and fluffy.
3. Add 1 in 2. Place the bowl over a pan of hot water. Mix until the batter continuously drips back into the bowl like a ribbon when you scoop it up.
4. Sift in flour and gently cut through the mixture with a spatula until combined.
5. Butter the pot of the rice cooker and pour in the mixture. Drop the pot lightly on the counter to raise the air bubbles out of the batter. Place the pot in the rice cooker, close the rice cooker, then press the button to start. *When it is half-baked, press the button to start (cook) once again.
6. When it's done, let cool on a wire rack until warm. Then place it in a plastic bag (to keep it moist) to cool completely. It tastes even better the next day after the flavors have settled!

If using an oven: Bake at 170C (338F) for 10 minutes. Then turn down to 140C (284F) and bake for 40-45 minutes.

Comments

[ciderpress]

holy moly, how did I not know one could make kasutera with a rice cooker!!11!!

I'm going to try it on my next free day \o/!

[glass_icarus]

*\o/*! Let me know how it goes! ♥ Also I really want to try baking with a rice cooker now OMG.

[bobcatmoran]

You can bake things in a rice cooker?! Oh, man, I have to try this. I just need my rice cooker to not be full of rice (aka its default setting ^_^).

[glass_icarus]

Haha, I wonder if I can bake this in my non-electronic rice cooker... :D Maybe it's time to experiment!

[st_aurafina]

That video was ADORABLE, especially at the end.

I've never cooked cake in my rice cooker but it does have setting for it, so I probably should try it!

[glass_icarus]

Wait wait wait. YOUR RICE COOKER HAS A CAKE SETTING?!?!! :O

[st_aurafina]

I'm pretty sure? It's in the cupboard this morning so I didn't have time to pull it out to confirm, but I'm pretty sure it has settings for cake and porridge and custard and also for, like, steaming things? It seemed like a gazillion different settings, anyway. I'll try to remember to take a photo.

[st_aurafina]

Here's the panel, with all the settings I've never used:

[glass_icarus]

:O

[cordialcount]

I don't have a rice cooker that I'd be willing to bake in! ;____;

What terrible things happen to rice cookers that are baked in? D:

Mine has 11 different rice settings but none for any other grains. It's deeply specialized.

[glass_icarus]

Hahaha, it's actually more that the rice cooker my mom is currently using on a regular basis is HER PRECIOUS (scratch it on pain of... well, pain) and idk where we put the older ones. xD

Rice: SRS BSNS!

[cordialcount]

YES IT IS. My mother had one a few years ago that cost, oh, 2/3 the monthly rent, and she'd excoriate me regularly for leaving drops of water on the outside surface of the rice-holder part when tucking it into the base. I mean, there was no actual skin removed, but there were angry fingers on forearms.

[via_ostiense]

Castera! I used to love this as a kid. Perhaps a trip to a K-block bakery is in order.

[glass_icarus]

:D!