Spring Ginger Simmered in Honey Pound Cake
- 2 Egg
- 100 grams Granulated sugar
- 100 grams Unsalted butter (cultured butter is best) or heavy cream
- 100 grams Cake flour (or 50 g of flour + 50 g of rice flour)
- 70 grams (to taste) Spring Ginger Simmered in Honey
- 8 grams (to taste) White and black sesame
- Slice about 10 g of ginger for topping, and then chop up the rest roughly.
- Do not add syrup.
- Put the butter in a small container and melt it.
- If you can, keep it at about 40~50C.
- Please refer to Step 17.
- If you are using heavy cream, do the same thing and keep it warm with by placing the container in hot water.
- Line the pan with paper.
- Make sure the paper sticks out of the pan by about 1 cm.
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- In a large bowl, add the egg and granulated sugar, warm it over a water bath at about 60~70C, and dissolve the sugar while mixing with a hand mixer.
- Once the sugar has dissolved (and the egg is at about 40C), remove the mixture from the water bath and whisk it at high speed for about 5~6 minutes until it leaves an indent if you stick your finger into it.
- Once it has thickened, turn to low speed for about a minute until the batter is smooth.
- At this point, add all the butter or heavy cream and mix it well with the hand mixer.
- Using a spatula, mix the batter well by scraping the bowl it from the bottom.
- Sift the cake flour and add it to the batter.
- Mix it by folding from the bottom about 20 times until you cannot see any powder.
- Add the chopped ginger and mix it quickly by hand for about 10 strokes until there are no clumps and the batter is smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Tap the pan against the counter in order to remove any large air bubbles.
- Decorate the top with ginger and sesame.
- Bake for about 35 minutes at 180C.
- Poke it with a bamboo skewer.
- If nothing sticks to it, you are done.
- Remove it from the pan and rest it on a rack till it is completely cool.
- Once cooled, wrap it in cling or plastic film and store it in the fridge.
- It is good to eat after one day!
- My recommendation is to eat it after two days.
- The flavor deepens over time.
- It tastes good at room temperature too, but I like it chilled.
- You can use the water bath from Step 5 to keep the butter warm!
- As for the oven temperature and such, please adjust it based on your equipment.
- If you use flour + rice flour, and add half of the sesame into the batter, you get a delicious, moist cake!
- A friend flipped the cake upside down, and added a lemon glaze and gold dust!
- Luxurious.
- If you use heavy cream instead of butter, you get a plump and most cake!
- The steps and measurements are the same!
- Take your pick.
- By the way, the heavy cream I used is animal based with 1/3 the calories.
egg, sugar, butter, flour, ginger, black sesame
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143300-spring-ginger-simmered-in-honey-pound-cake (may not work)