Chinese Steamed Castella Cake
- 200 grams Cake flour
- 100 grams Cornmeal
- 40 grams Sugar
- 1 grams Baking powder
- 3 grams Dry yeast
- 300 ml 40C water
- 1 Raisins
- 1 Pumpkin seeds
- 1 Walnuts
- 1 Sunflower seeds
- 1 Chinese wolfberry fruit
- Prepare the ingredients.
- Soak the wolfberry fruit in water.
- Chop the walnuts into easy to eat pieces and combine with the rest of the seeds and nuts.
- Mix the dry yeast with 50 ml of the hot water and a tiny bit of sugar.
- Let it sit for 10 minutes.
- Combine the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and sugar.
- Pour the proofed yeast into the mixture and combine.
- Add the remaining 250 ml of hot water.
- Mix in 2/3 of the seeds and nuts.
- Let it sit at a temperature of 30C to rise.
- Once it has doubled in size, scatter the remaining 1/3 of seeds and nuts over the top.
- Place over a pot of boiling water over high heat and steam for 20 minutes.
- (Adjust the time based on the size of the container.)
- Turn off the heat and let it sit as is for 2 minutes to steam with the residual heat.
- Once a skewer is removed cleanly, it's done!
- Decorate with Chinese dates for a steamed castella cake!
flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, yeast, raisins, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, chinese wolfberry fruit
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/150671-chinese-steamed-castella-cake (may not work)