Steamed Blue Pea Flower Chiffon Cake 蒸蝶豆花戚风蛋糕
After sharing the Steamed Chiffon Cake recipe on my blog last week, I steamed another simple and healthy chiffon cake with blue pea flowers. I’m using fresh blue pea flowers that I harvested from my little garden. You can use the dried blue pea flowers too that are available at most baking supplies stores. The size of the cake pan is 7 inches and the steaming time is 50 minutes. If you do not want to steam the cake, you can bake it for an hour at 160 degrees C. Since blue pea flowers have no flavour or taste but gives a natural food colouring agent, I sifted some Valrhona cocoa powder in between the batter to enhance a better flavour to the cake after steaming and I’m so happy that my cake turned out beautifully with the lovely colour. This Steamed Blue Pea Flower Chiffon Cake is moist and airy even after being chilled overnight in the refrigerator.
Steamed Blue Pea Flower Chiffon Cake
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Steamed Blue Pea Flower Chiffon Cake
Ingredients
- 4 egg yolks - use 65g egg with shell
- 65 g caster sugar
- 50 ml fresh milk - soaked with blue pea flowers
- 50 ml corn oil
- 50 g cake flour/plain flour
- 2 tbsp corn flour (starch)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 60 pcs blue pea flowers + 100ml fresh milk @step 1 - fresh or dried
- Valrhona cocoa powder for dusting
Meringue
- 4 egg whites
- 50 g caster sugar
Instructions
- Gently boil fresh milk with blue pea flowers for 1 minute, off heat and leave to cool. Then strain out 50ml milk mixture.
- Boil a pot of water to boiling point, off heat and set aside. Wrap a 7 inch removable cake pan with aluminium foil to prevent water seeping through the pan while steaming (no need to grease the pan).
- Combine egg yolks and sugar in bowl, mix well with a hand whisk. Add "blue pea" milk and vanilla extract, mix well followed by corn oil and blend well. Sift flours into the egg mixture and stir well.
- Make meringue - Whisk egg whites to foamy, add sugar in 3 portions and whisk to peak forms (turn on the pot of water again at high heat before whisking the egg whites).
- Take out 1/3 of the meringue to the batter and mix well. Then pour it back to the remaining egg whites, gently fold well.
- Spoon a layer of batter into the pan and level it. Sift a thin layer of cocoa powder on top until evenly covered. Then another batter on top of the cocoa powder (total 3 layers batter and 2 layers cocoa powder).
- Gently drop pan on table top to release air bubbles. Cover the top tightly with another piece of aluminum foil. Then prick some holes on top with a skewer to release hot air while steaming.
- Turn down heat to medium low (water at gentle boiling stage), place the cake pan inside the steamer, covered with lid and steam for about 50 minutes. **test cake with a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- When the cake is cooked, drop the cake on table top a few times to prevent shrinkages. Invert the cake pan immediately to cool completely before removing the cake from pan.
Notes
Nutrition
- 4个 蛋黄 （用65克鸡蛋）
- 65克 细砂糖
- 50毫升 蝶豆花牛奶
- 50毫升 玉米油
- 50克 底筋面粉或中筋面粉
- 2汤匙 玉米淀粉
- 1茶匙 香草香精
- 60朵 蝶豆花和100毫升牛奶** （步骤1）
- 可可粉适量
- 蛋白霜
- 4个 蛋白
- 50克 细砂糖
- 做法：
- 蝶豆花和牛奶小火煮1分钟,熄火待凉）， 然后过滤取出50毫升蝶豆花牛奶。**没用鲜蝶豆花也可以用干的**
- 预先烧开蒸笼的水，然后熄火备用。准备一个7寸圆活动烤盘（盘内不用抹油)，外围用锡纸包严实(以免蒸蛋糕的过程中水进入蛋糕体 )。
- 蛋黄和细糖（用手动打蛋器）混合均匀。加入蝶豆花牛奶和香精搅匀后加入玉米油，再搅匀；筛入粉类，搅拌均匀即可。
- 再次烧开热水. 这时候把蛋白打致起泡泡，细砂糖分3次加入，打致硬性发泡。
- 取出约1/3蛋白霜到面糊里翻拌均匀。然后把面糊倒入剩余的蛋白霜拌里，轻轻的翻拌均匀即可。
- 将白面糊舀入烤盘内，抹平。接着筛入一层可可粉，然后再轻轻的铺上面糊和（筛入）可可粉 （一共3层面糊2层可可粉）。
- 轻轻的敲出气泡。盖上一张锡纸直接把蛋糕烤盘封起来。然后用竹签在上面扎一些孔洞让蛋糕蒸的时候能够透气。
- 将烧开的水转入中小火（水保持在微滚的状态就可以了），蛋糕盘放入蒸笼里，盖上盖蒸约50分钟左右即可。**可以用竹签扎人蛋糕内部，没沾糊就表示熟了。
- 拿开锡纸，敲出热气以免蛋糕收缩。然后倒扣蛋糕，待凉后才脱模切片享用。
- **不想蒸蛋糕，可以放进烤箱烤 ~ 160度约60分钟。
Hi, Ann, I have used your recipe to make a lot of chiffon cake, we all like it so much. If I will to make this cake with blue pea powder, how much shall I input?
Hi Rachel,
So happy to hear that you like my chiffon cake recipes. For this blue pea chiffon cake, you may add 1 to 2 teaspoons of blue pea powder. Depending on how light or how dark of the blue pea colour you prefer.
I’m going to try the pea chiffon cake. Thankyou for sharing
You’re welcome 🙂 Enjoy baking! You can upload your cake pic to share with us here by clicking on the icon at the right corner in the comment box.
You’re welcome 🙂 You can upload your cake pic to share with us here by clicking on the icon at the right corner in the comment box.
Thanks so much Ann. Can I know if the cake will stick onto the pan and how do you remove it?
Hi Lilian, The cake is exactly like a chiffon cake. Can remove it by hand after cooling.
That’s a piece of art, Ann. Love the swirls!