AirFryer Bake – Old School Cake/Castella Cake 古早味蛋糕
It has so long since I came here that I almost forgot how to login to my blog! haha.. in this age, everyone is going onto vlog, tiktok, and youtube and I do wonder how many people will still bother to read a blog but the old fashion me will still try to update here and on Facebook (yes, still not going onto Instagram) and when I do have the time, to upskill myself and revamp this blog. Probably gonna take ages with Monster P & W holding me back..haha.. in case you don’t know who he is Monster P, his name starts with “Pro”… LOL
With CoVID-19 keeping all of us at home, most of us are finding ways to “entertain” or “perk ourselves up” other than working all day and not being able to go out to eat or buy things that we like. So many families discovered the healthy way of cooking many of the food that we fancied in restaurants and some of our hawker recipes. I am no exception so I decided to “document” my fuss-free recipes/bakes done during this period to remember this very special year and before my brain forgets them 😛
For whatever reason (maybe cos I have been working from home from Feb and need to keep my sanity alive!), my itchy hand bought an airfryer during the Lazada Birthday Sale in March and it has kept me intrigued at how fuss free food can be churned out with it and that it can be used to bake too!
Experimented with a few cakes recipe with the air fryer and this is still my favourite so far – Old School Cake/Traditional Cake/Castella cake 古早味蛋糕 whichever way you like to call it with recipe from Ytower Cooking channel. Though the look of my cake does not match up to that in the video (as i do not have the baking tin insert), taste wise it is perfectly OK!
So here is the recipe and steps. Do try it as I find it so easy to make. The ingredients are so easy to find at home too! No need to go queue up at redman or ntuc and expose yourself to virus just to get them! LOL
Total time taken to prepare the bowls/measure the ingredients and mix them together: 20-30min.
Time to bake: 25 min (150°C for 10min then 140°C for 15min)
Just need to keep this picture and you can replicate the cake many many times!
I messed up a bit here as I forgot the steps and changed the order of the egg yolks and flour but it did not affect the end result though I did wonder why was my egg yolk a little cooked 😀
**You are supposed to dissolve the milk. oil and sugar and sieve in the flour. Wait for the mixture to cool down to about 40°C before stirring in the egg yolk.
I used cane sugar this round so the colour of the whites were a little different
Bake at 150°C for 10min then 140°C for 15min
Mine is not as thick as the basket was wider. Did not affect the bounce and texture of the cake though
Good recipe for bored people who wants to eat cake but does not want to go out to buy ingredients. LOL
