Thursday 22 March 2007

Pandan Layer Cake

"Pandan Layer Cake is a layer cake, green in colour, made from pandan juice and flavouring. It is usually sold in bakeries all over malaysia, namely Italy bakery (in malaysia), the bakery in banting, forget the name oredi, yees bakery..but not bread story..bcos..BREAD story wad..sell bread la.. It usually cost about 7 ringgit for 3 X 8 inches cake...1 pound..haih..i buy the coconut milk oso 1 pound oredi.."

HERE, as promised, made my SUPER FAVOURITE PANDAN LAYER CAKE!!!..Tua Pui shud noe best, cos she specially went n bought that in banting for my 19th bitrhday last time..I'll alwiz remember dat, pui..(let her feel flatterd abit..then she'll treat me nicer..hehe)


Syok syok say wana make PANDAN layer cake, but main problem: NO PANDAN...
After icp yesterday, i wanted to feel how is it like 2 save 1 pound (bus fare) ..so...i decided to walk back along leith in search of pandan flavouring..lazy to go find pandan leave n blend..

walk..walk...walk walk walk...so cold..cis..once oredi start walking, no turning back..if i naik bus now, so damn tak berbaloi, cos oredi walk half way wad...masuk pat chung ying on the way..no pandan flavouring...go out again..masuk Hing Sing which is now my favourite chinese supermarket, cos...GOT PANDAN ESSENCE..n also the SUPER RARE Hoen Kwe powder (green bean powder produced in indonesia) that i initially planned to ignore in the recipe...

Pandan Layer Cake

Ingredients
Sponge cake
If u r in malaysia - 375g optima flour, 7 eggs, 60 ml water, 2 tbsp pandan juice, green colouring, 90g butter, settled...

If you are not in malaysia, haih...mahuan abit..optima flour can b substituted with sponge cake mix..or u wana make ur own mix oso can..
1 1/4 cup castor sugar,
bla bla
20 egg yolk..(aiks..reject this recipe..need so many egg 1..)

next recipe:
3/4 cup multi-purpose flour (plain flour..hmm can get can get)
2 cups unsalted butter..hm
1 tbsp ovalette (apani??reject reject..)

next search:
Pandan Chiffon
A) 4 yolk
70ml coconut milk
45ml water + 1 tsp pandan paste (i use essense lo)
70ml corn oil
1/8 tsp salt
100g castor sugar
150g flour
1 tsp baking powder

B) 4 egg white
90g castor sugar
1/8 tsp cream of tartar (can b substituted with white vinegar of the same amount)

method
..i shall cut short the method la..faham faham, ok..

1) mix A leave aside
2) whisk egg in B till stiff, then add sugar n cream of tartar
3) whisk whisk whisk
4) mix in A gently
5) Bake at 175degree celcius for 40 mins
6) take out, then leave 2 cool awhile..

after settle the cake, then go make the kaya..

ingredients
700g thick coconut milk (from the can 1)
180g castor sugar (this 1 added myself cos the recipe i found din write, where got nice..)
85 g Hoen Kwe (green bean powder)
3 tsp instant jelly ( i think more nicer..cos mine not that jelly mayb 3 tbsp)
1 1/2 tsp salt ( i suggest noneed, cos not that nice)
1/4 tsp pandan essense( must follow..cos i put in more, then strong smell..haha orang tamak selalu rugi)
2 tbsp pandan juice
1 tsp green colouring ( put till u like the colour la..)

method:
1) mix all and then heat it in saucepan
2) keep stirring, at middle fire.
3) Do not use to big fire and don't let it boil..later the texture not nice.
4) Keep stirring till the kaya thicken..around 20-30 minutes
5) meanwhile, cut the cake into 3 layers

Assemble the layersss
1) after the kaya abit thick oredi, put a layer in the tray that u use to bake jus now..so that same size la..
2) then put a layer of the cake on..then put kaya again, then put cake, then put kaya then put cake..ei, how many oredi?
3) nevermind, jus make layers n layers...the last layer on top is the kaya..flatten n even it, decorate with some dessicated coconut..(can get from tesco or pakistan shops)..leave it outside for 30 minutes..then put in fridge..


settle...nyum nyum..

1 sliceee

p.s: kids below 16 years must only make with permission of parents.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hebat Lee PP!!
I sebagai pemakan mengakui kesedapan ur Pandan Layer Cake.

(Laksa taknak komen.Hahaha)

pp said...

Laksa..haha..ada 1% la..sbb tu tak letak kat blog..hehe..susah nak dpt bahan...cis..

Anonymous said...

hahahaha pui i'm so touched. Tak sangka u still remember. =)

Looks so yummy la... You just bangkitkan my cravings. I wannnnnnnn...

Have to say this again. You very HEBAT.Multi-talented. =)
Guys out there, LPP is mou tak teng.
Who dunno how to appreciate = BODOH.

No kidding. =)

pp said...

oii..promote me on my blog pula..later ppl tot i angkat bakul oo..purposely put 1 annonymous 2 puji sendiri..haha...paiseh paiseh..

ihsan_huhu said...

layering part is too leceh la.. better beli dat apollo pandan cake... 20c onli

u alredi angkat bakul urself.. buat2 malu pulak

pp said...

mana angkat..aku sedang share my ideology ei..berbakti oo..apollo layer cake mana 20c lagi..last time oredi 30c..now entah naik harge x..

Anonymous said...

I wanna eat... but so sad.. i lazy to do la.. or i rather dunno how to do.. haiz

pp said...

keke..eat the cake dat u make urself very happy 1..

Anonymous said...

Hi, just wondering if the coconut milk for the kaya is 700g or 700ml? Thanks

pp said...

Its 700g..