Christmas 2009 was a wonderful season of sharing and catching up with family and friends over good food. I was busy trying out some recipes – to bake some cakes as ‘gifts’ for friends and loved ones.
We usually find or eat our chocolate brownies which are oven-baked. I tried steaming and find them yummy and moist. Here’s my easy recipe for the brownies:
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup flour
¼ cup bread flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tablespoon Nescafe instant coffee
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate
1 cup cooking oil (vegetable oil)
1 cup of fresh milk
4 eggs (beaten)
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup of hot water
Method :
1. Sift together the flour, cocoa & coffee powder, baking powder and soda bicarbonate in a big bowl then add in the sugar and mix well with a wooden spatula.
2.Pour in the oil, followed by milk, make sure that everything is well mixed and then put in the beaten egg. Keep mixing.
3. Add in the vanilla essence and finally the boiling water and stir everything together.
4. Heat up the steamer or wok.
5. Greased baking pan or line bottom with greased-proof paper.
6. Pour the batter into prepared pan and place the pan into the steamer/wok and cover the top of the pan loosely with a piece of aluminium foil.
7. Steam over medium heat for 50 mins.
8. Cool the cake in pan before turning out for chocolate topping.
Note: if you don’t like steaming in the wok you can either steam bake the cake as well .
