Never knew we can bake cakes without preheating oven until I saw Lena's post on Cold Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake [Bake Along] and all the lovely pictures of the various cold oven bakes. No venture no gain, I tried baking one following Mimi's Bakery recipe [see here] cos' I just have ingredients sufficient for this recipe.
The cake is soft, fine texture and buttery. Lovely cake which I wouldn't mind baking often. I noticed the cake shrinks a little after cooling.
Ingredients
[I used loaf pan 15cm x 5cm x 5cm]
[original recipe from Mimi's Bakery with some modifications]
75 gm butter - melted with cream cheese - double boiled
75 gm cream cheese
75 gm castor sugar [I used 60 gm]
2 eggs - separated
1/2 tbsp vanilla essence
1/2 tbsp grated fresh ginger
1/2 tbsp grated lemon zest
125 gm self raising flour [I used 125 gm plain flour + 1/2 tsp baking powder]
1/4 tsp salt
75 gm cream cheese
75 gm castor sugar [I used 60 gm]
2 eggs - separated
1/2 tbsp vanilla essence
1/2 tbsp grated fresh ginger
1/2 tbsp grated lemon zest
125 gm self raising flour [I used 125 gm plain flour + 1/2 tsp baking powder]
1/4 tsp salt
- Beat egg yolks with sugar until creamy, drizzle in melted butter and cream cheese.
- Add in essence, grated ginger and lemon zest, then fold in sifted flour and salt.
- Fold to incorporate well all the ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff peak. Fold in 1/3 to egg yolk batter, then the remaining egg whites.
- Pour into a loaf pan.
- Bake on lower middle rack in cold oven at 160 degrees C for 50-60 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
- Remove and cool in tin for 5-10 minutes then invert cake to cool completely before slicing.
Cake keeps well for 3 days in room temperature.
4 comments:
Kimmy, looks like your cake is very successful. Very nice colour too. I also wanted to bake a cream cheese pound cake. Maybe this weekend :)
Hi Phong Hong, try it. Tastes good.
Hi Kimmy! That cake will be gone before 3 days in my house!
Hi Chef, that's a good thing when there are a lot of food choices in the house.
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