Steamed Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients
300g pork belly
1.25 litre water
600g rice flour
2 Tbs corn flour
250ml oil
15 shallots, thinly sliced
50g dried prawns
15 dried mushrooms, soaked till soft and
thinly sliced
1 Tbs soya sauce
600g pumpkin, skin removed and thinly sliced
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 spring onion, coarsely chopped
1 fresh red chilli, coarsely chopped
3 tsp roasted white sesame seeds

Method
1. Scald the pork belly in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes and drain. When cool, slice into thin strips and set aside.

2. To a mixing bowl, add rice flour, corn flour and 750ml of water. Stir well until a smooth mixture forms. Set aside.

3. To a heated wok, add oil and fry the shallots over medium fire until it turns lightly golden. Drain and set aside the shallots. Keep the shallot oil.

4. Using half of the shallot oil, stir-fry the dried prawns for one minute before adding the mushrooms, pork belly and 1/2 Tbs of soya sauce. Fry the mixture for five minutes before setting it aside (above).

5. Use the remaining shallot oil to stir-fry the pumpkin for five minutes before adding 1/2 Tbs of soya sauce, salt and pepper.

6. Cover the wok and continue cooking the pumpkin over medium heat for 20 minutes. Add 500ml of water gradually to the pumpkin as it cooks (above). Stir occasionally and as the pumpkin softens, use a spatula to break it up into smaller pieces.

7. Mash the cooked pumpkin with a spatula until a semi-smooth consistency forms. If you prefer a coarser or smoother texture, adjust accordingly.

8. Add the flour mixture to the mashed pumpkin. Mix well (above).

9. Stir in most of the dried prawns, mushroom and pork belly. Mix well.

10. Pour the mixture into a container (18cm diameter, 6cm deep) and sprinkle the remaining dried prawns, mushroom and pork belly over the surface, taking care to gently press the toppings down onto the cake mixture (above).

11. Steam the cake for one hour until it is firm and cooked through.

12. Garnish the cake with spring onion, chilli, fried shallots and sesame seeds.
Makes three cakes.


bymngzara

Steamed Banana Cake

1 ripe banana, mashed 
1 egg (substitute: 50ml milk/ water??) 
1 tsp oil 
2 tsp water 
2 tsp baking powder 
¼ cup icing sugar 
100g (close to 1 cup) all-purpose flour 
2 tbsp semi-sweet chocolate chips/ raisins (optional) 

1) Place all ingredients into a mixing bowl. 
2) Mix the ingredients with a fork until well blended. 
3) Bring a pot of water to a boil. Steam the cake on a rack for 15 to 18 minutes until a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. 
4) Remove from the steamer and let the cake cool for a few minutes. Use a knife to loosen the sides of the cake and pop the cake out of the bowl. You may add some chocolate chips if you prefer. 

I tried making it and thougt it was pretty yummy (didn't really think it was too dense for a cake that didn't need beating), although I had to steam it for longer because I don't have a proper steamer or wok here and had to use a big pot which let steam leak out and the lid was flat so water could drip onto the cake which made mine quite sticky on the top. Try it and see what you think of it 


by Chow Times

LAZY STEAMED CHOCOLATE CAKE

1. 1 cup hershey chocolate powder 
2. 1 cup evaporated milk 
3. 1 cup sugar 
4. 1 cup cooking oil (actually, i mixed 1/2 cup melted butter and 1/2 cup oil) 
5. 1/2 cup condensed milk 
6. 1 teaspn chocolate emulco 
7. 3 eggs (beaten lightly) 
8. 1&1/4 cup of self raising flour 
9. 1 teaspn bicarbonate soda 

• prepare the steamer. 
• combine items 1-6 in a pan & put under a slow fire while stirring. take it down once the sugar melted & everything are well mixed. 
• add in the beaten egg bit by bit, continue beating. make sure the mixture is not hot otherwise it’ll will cook the egg! 

• fold in the flour/ bicarbonate soda (sieved) into the mixture slowly 
• pour into a greased baking tin 
• seal it with aluminium foil & steam for an hour

by ganc

Serikaya Cake

Ingredients: 
A: 
230g butter 
1/2 tsp vanilla essence 
5 eggs 

B: 
(sieved together) 
175g plain flour 
1 1/2 tsps double-action baking powder 

C: 
100g condensed milk 
150g kaya 
125g Horlicks 
100g black treacle/browing sauce if you have 
200ml evaporated milk 

Method: 
1. Line and grease a 9" round cake tin and prepare your steamer 
2. Beat butter and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl until creamy. Add in eggs one at a time. Gradually add in ingredient (B) and ingredient (C) alternately until well-combined. 
3. Pour batter into cake tin and cover with foil 
4. Steam cake for 90 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when inserted into cake's centre.

by Zuraini

Steamed chocolate cake.

Ingredients A 

1 cup of cocoa powder 
1 cup of evaporated milk 
1 cup of oil or melted butter 
1 cup of sugar. 
½ cup of condensed milk 

Ingredients B ( shifted together) 

1 ¼ cup of plain flour 
1 teaspoon of baking powder 
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda 

Ingredients C 

3 eggs 

Methods: 
1) Mix all ingredients in A list and heat on stove till the sugar melted and everything are well mixed. Do not have to wait till it boiled, leave to cool.
2) Whisk the egg till frothy using hand-whisk, then pour in the cooled mixture of cocoa/milk/sugar/ oil. Mix well till smooth. 
3) Pour in the shifted flour and whisk till no lump. 
4) Pour into a greased baking pan , cover the top with aluminium foil to prevent water dripping and steamed for about 1 – 1 ½ hour till done. (Insert a skewer or stick to test whether the cake’s fully steamed.) 

Note: I used half butter and half cooking oil since I didn’t melted enough butter and using self raising flour instead of plain flour. The baking powder and bicarbonate powder were omitted. 


by jam

Steamed chocolate chip cake

125gm of butter 
125gm of sugar 
2 eggs 
150gm cake flour / self raising flour 
25gm cocoa 
2 tablespoons of milk powder 
2 bananas – mashed 
50 gm chocolate chips 

Methods. 
1) Using a mixer, beat cream the butter and sugar till fluffy. 
2) Add in the egg, one at time and mix well. 
3) Pour in the mixture of flour, cocoa and milk powder and mix again till no lumps. Lastly add in the mashed banana and chocolate chip. 
4) Pour into a greased baking tray and cover with aluminium foil, and steam for about 1 hour. 


by Jam

Steam Sponge Cake

Ingredients:250 gm top flour
250 gm caster sugar
2 tbsp milk powder
6 large eggs
60 gm corn oil

Method :
Sift flour and milk powder together.

Beat the eggs and sugar together till light pale in color and the ribbon stage. (If you lift the beaters up and do a figure of eight on the batter, the figure of 8 must be visible for about 3 secs. before disappearing).

Gradually fold in the flour mixture and oil and batter till well mix using a spatula.

Pour batter into a 8" square baking pan lined with greaseproof paper.

Cover the top with aluminium foil.

Steam on high heat for 30 mins and check if skewer comes out clean.
If not steam for another 5 to 10 mins.

by Chawanmushi ( 

http://cookbakelegacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/steam-sponge-cake.html)