[COOKING] Pineapple Cake

Pineapple cake 

We had pineapple after lunch yesterday, and it was a bit of sour, so I decided to use the leftover to make a pineapple cake.

I have search for many recipes ( some of them have vedios ) : 

  1. Betty Crocker  -- Easy Pineapple Upside-Down Cake 
  2. Allrecipes.com -- Easy Pineapple Cake
  3. Manjula's Kitchen -- Eggless Pineapple Cake
  4. 歐梅加的二房 (Omega's Kitchen) -- 
      (1) 鳳梨反轉蛋糕 (Pineapple Reverse Cake)
      (2) 鳳梨杯子蛋糕 (Pineapple Cupcakes)
  5. 愛在廚房 (Eupho Café) -- 菠蘿反轉蛋糕 (Pineapple Upside-Down Cake)

I finally came up with the mixing of the above.

Here's my recipe :

◆ Ingredients : 
  ✓ bread flour  ......  1/2 cup
  ✓ cake flour  ......  1/2 cup

         ( I use bread flour & cake flour to create all-purpose flour )

  ✓ sugar  ......  4 T
  ✓ baking powder  ......  3/5 t
  ✓ baking soda  ......  1 pinch ( A little pinch is enough, maybe I'll try not to add it next time. )
  ✓ unsalted butter  ......  30 g
  ✓ salt  ......  1/4 t
  ✓ vanilla extract  ......  1/3 t
  ✓ eggs  ......  5/4  ( 1/4 egg is the leftover from making bread.)
  ✓ pineapple  ......  150 g
  ✓ milk powder  ......  50 g
  ✓ hot water  ......  30 ml

◆ Method :
  1. Microwave the sliced pineapple for 1 minutes (high), so we can get the juice easily. ( or using pineapple can, in its own juice. )
  2. Microwave butter with 1 T sugar for 2 minutes. (icing sugar would be perfect ! or you can put them in a sauce pan and heat it up.) And pour them into cake pan, and place some sliced pineapple on it.
  3. Add 2 T of sugar and milk powder into hot water and microwave them for 2.5 minutes (depends on your microwave. Remember to heat and stir them gradually, don't do it all at once, or it will be scorched. ) to make sweetened condense milk. (Skip this step, if you have condense milk. )
  4. Separate egg white and egg yolk.
    a. (Egg yolk) Batter
      (1) 
      (2)
    b. Egg white  


◆ Tips & Reviews :
  ► I've add too much water into the batter, so it tastes like "Chinese steamed sponge cake" (or called, "Fa gao" 發糕) .
  ► I think using 100% cake flour would make it more fluffy !
  ► Use icing sugar to mix with butter, it's easier to dissolved. 
  ►While making condense milk, remember to heat and stir them gradually, don't do it all at once, or it will be scorched.