I'm so fancy over any desserts boiled with pandan leaves and all sorts of pandan cakes. I stumbled upon Aunty Yochana's pandan kaya butter cake when I hopped over to her blog the other day. Without much hesitation, I immediately decided to give this fool-proof recipe a try.
While baking, the fragrance flowing from the oven is extremely inviting. I'm glad that cake popped out from the oven in its beautiful splendor (with some cracks anyway). It's fluffy, moist and flavored with pandan extract and coconut milk. The buttery cake is so delightful. :)
I will give it another try with homemade pandan juice. I' know I'll be excited tasting my cake with natural pandan fragrance, and of course I'll be happy seeing the chlorophyll imparting the lovely green to my cake.
I will give it another try with homemade pandan juice. I' know I'll be excited tasting my cake with natural pandan fragrance, and of course I'll be happy seeing the chlorophyll imparting the lovely green to my cake.
Pandan Butter Cake
Recipe adapted from Aunty Yochana's Pandan Kaya Butter Cake with some modification
Ingredients:
250 gm butter
200 gm sugar ( I reduce to 170gm)
6 eggs
300 gm cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
200 gm coconut milk
1/4 tsp. salt (I omit this as salted butter is used)
3 tbsp. milk powder (I omit this too)
1 tsp. pandan essence
a drop of green coloring (I use 1 tsp pandan essence cum green coloring)
Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till creamy.
2. Add in egg one at a time and make sure it's properly mixed before adding in another egg. Pour in coconut milk and salt slowly and if it cuddles, put in some flour. Add in pandan paste and some green coloring.
3. Fold in cake flour, milk powder and baking powder and then pour into a 7" sq. tray (I used 8" baking pan) and bake at 175C (for me, I baked under 180C) for about 60 mins.
28 comments:
Mmmm...looks good and yummy. Must try this one day.
I love anything with pandan flavour too!
i love the smell of Pandan leaves so this cake must be good.
Butter cake itself is rich. Imagine sinking your teeth into the pandan infused butter cake... Oooo... the combination of butter and pandan ... heavenly
I can eat a few slices of this in once, just love it~~
Your blog is amazing and I want to eat at your home. Not sure what Pandan Paste is and you mention juice too? I have to look this up. I also see someone mentions the smell of the Pandan leaves. I love to find new and intersting ingredients in baking and cooking.
Thanks for visiting my blog yesterday. Friday I am going to post a pumpkin recipe that is so so delicious:)
Joyce
the one selling at bakery it's so green..U think they add colouring?
Anncoo, try it out and let me know if you like it.
allie, notice that quite a number of Asian people love the food with pandan flavor.
foodbin, yes you are right!
Tarts and pies, thanks for visiting my blog. :) I like your description.
mimid3vils, my maximum limit is up to 2 pieces only. :)
Joyce, pandan is also known as screw pine. It's a type of plant in Asian country. People use it to blend juice in order to get green coloring. Also, we use it to steam rice and to cook dessert to enhance the smell. Thanks for dropping by too.
SimpleGirl, most probably. Actually mine was using coloring too, but in moderate amount.
Hi, I m first time droping into your nice blog.Will keep to visit you.Hope you don't mind oh!
I have never heard of pandan but this looks very delicious!
Cherry Potato, you're welcome! Thanks for dropping by. Hope to see you more often.
Joanne, you can refer to the above explanation on pandan from my reply to Joyce.
yours looks so beautiful..I've gotta learn this and hopefully it will turn out like yours :) Thanks
nice cake.... and looks yummy!
just a question..is cake flour the same with self raising flour..if it's not the same..can i use self raising flour instead...shops near my places only have self raising flour...
buzzingbee, I hope you'll get what you want. :)
Food Paradise, thanks.
Sakana, yes, you can use self raising flour. I use self raising flour too.
mmmmm...sounds amazing! I don't know what pandan is, but I'd love to try it :D
Anything with butter has my vote! LOL!
This looks awesome!
gilichef, hope that you able to find pandan paste in Asian grocery shop.
Miranda, never go wrong with butter, right? Thanks for dropping by.
Yum yum, perfect afternoon tea time snack :)
noobcook, I can take a piece or 2 anytime of the day. :)
hey i'm totally a noob to baking... so i tumbled across your cake here and tried to make it but failed miserably.
is it possible that you give more specific instructions? as in if you were teaching a 2 year old how to cook, lol! if you have a chance, it'd really be appreciated :o)
It was certainly interesting for me to read the post. Thanx for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.
hello there. u mentioned that u replaced the green colouring with 1tsp. pandan essence rite? so the total tsp. pandan essense is 2 plus the previous 1 tsp. pandan essence?
Kyas Love, i use pandan essence and pandan coloring which comes "2 in 1". The brand that I use the taste is not strong, so I adjusted it till I saw some light green color.
If you use pandan essence, you should not add to much, as it tends to over powering the smell. For the normal essence like orange flovoring, the most I add is 5 drops.
oraitt. thanks a lot. have a nice day. :))
thanks for your this recipe..., i have tried :)
thanks for your recipe, i have tried..
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