I’ve been thinking of making steamed cake since a long time ago but always didn’t get into doing it until last December when I was enjoying my long holiday. I found Cream Cracker Steamed Cake from a friend in Facebook. The recipe I’m sharing with you here is the original recipe.
The photo I’m showing is my modified version, my lazy version ;p Also I can never follow a recipe, I always ended up modifying it. I’ll put mine in italics so you can compare.
Ingredients:
250 grams butter
200 grams caster sugar
6 large eggs
21 pieces cream crackers (choose less oily ones, or else cut down on the butter)
I didn’t follow exactly, I just estimated it from the broken cream crackers I had in the container. I accidentally knocked the container and it fell to the floor so I have no idea how many crackers were in there. I could only count 16 complete pieces and the rest were all broken into bits and pieces. I ended up using the whole container hahaha… Roughly around 21 pieces I guess ;p
2 tablespoons Milo powder (or any other flavour you like)
I skipped this, I decided to do a usual cake rather than layer cake.
Instructions:
1. Leave butter at room temperature until soft
2. Cream butter and caster sugar until mixture turns white
3. Add eggs and mix until consistent
4. Blend/smash cream crackers into powder form
5. Stir powdered cream crackers into mixture until consistent
6. Halve the batter
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake
7. Add Milo powder into half of the batter
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake
8. Line a baking tin with baking paper
I just coat the tin with butter as I didn’t have baking paper
9. Pour plain batter first (thickness depending on how many layers do you want to make) and spread evenly
I poured everything into the tin
10. Steam on medium heat (water boiled on high heat before this) for 10 minutes, check by pricking to see if it’s cooked before pouring the second layer
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake
11. Then, pour the Milo batter and steam for 5 minutes (timing up to you, just make sure to check if it’s cooked)
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake
12. Repeat until all batter used up
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake
I steamed the cake for 45 minutes to one hour using medium heat. I just roughly estimated the time, I don’t remember the actual time. If you are not sure whether the cake is done, just use a skewer to check it. If the skewer can move easily inside the cake, then it’s not done yet. If it’s done, you should not be able to move the skewer easily as the texture of the cake is quite dense. Always make sure there’s enough water in the steamer.
13. Remove the cake from the baking tin, let cool on wire rack and serve.
My verdict
The cake is too sweet for my liking. You can reduce the sugar if you want to. Also you can add in a teaspoon of vanilla essence if you want to get rid of the taste of the eggs. You can also change cream cracker to digestive biscuits, any biscuits without filling will do also. Not only that, replace it with NESTUM®(the original one, not the 3-in-one kind) is great too.
I gave some to my friends to try and they said it’s not too sweet for them. Maybe it’s just me that don’t like very sweet food.
Try it out, very easy and quite fool proof based on my standard. I always ended up with failed cakes but still edible because I can’t follow a recipe exactly, tend to modify it, and skip some steps hehehe…
