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Rice Cooker Castella Cake. Today, we are going to do something sacrilegious. Put something other than rice in the rice cooker. Cooking gods, forgive me.

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This recipe put a smile on our faces. Seeing a cake plop out of the rice cooker was too funny. At first, we doubted that it would taste good. But were pleasantly surprised by the results. Enough so to make a video and share the goods news with our neighbors 🙂

Making Castella cake - the traditional way - is a bit tricky. It also requires a few involved steps like whipping the egg whites into a foam. This mean you need to pull out an electric blender and... well, lot of extra steps. So today, we settle for a simpler method.

Traditional Castella is made of just 4 basic ingredients: bread flour, eggs, sugar, and honey. Which is the same ingredients used in muffin mix. So muffin mix works well as a substitute. However, our version is not as airy and bouncy as the famous ones sold in Korean department stores. I think that took years of experimentation and testing.

Anyhow, if you want to try pain-free baking, give this a shot!

Daniel out 🕺

No Bake - Castella Cake

Use your rice cooker to make a delicious Castella Cake. Fun, experimental recipe!

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Course: Easy

Servings: people

Ingredients

Muffin Mix

Flour - 1.5 cups
Sugar - ¾ cup
Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
Salt - ½ teaspoon

Wet Ingredients

Eggs - 3
Butter - 2 Tablespoons
Milk - ⅓ cup

Instructions

Make Muffin Mix: Take out a mixing bowl. And thoroughly mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.
Take out another small bowl. Slice off a piece of butter. Melt in microwave for 1 minute.
Crack 3 eggs into a separate large bowl. Whisk eggs well. Pour half of the melted butter in. Mix into the eggs.
Take out a strainer and place over the egg mixture. Pour flour into the strainer. Gently tap on the strainer and sift the flour into the egg mixture.
Finally, pour milk into the mixture.
Thoroughly mix and blend all of the ingredients together. The batter should be slightly runny and goopy.
Take out your rice cooker bowl. Brush the remaining melted butter into the bowl. Make sure to coat the sides so the cake don't stick.
Pour batter into rice cooker bowl. Place bowl into rice cooker. Set it to steam (찜) mode and let it cook for 40 minutes.
Once 40 minutes is up, use a toothpick and poke the middle to see if the cake has cooked all the way through. If is slightly wet, just let it sit in the cooker for 5-10 more minutes.
Enjoy with a cup of milk!

Notes

Make sure to use baking powder - not baking soda!
Poke cake with a toothpick to see if middle is fully cooked through - let it sit in the cooker for 5-10 minutes longer if slightly wet.
Feel free to add chocolate, fruits and other ingredients into the batter.
Watch video below for more details

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