Cook time: 60 mins
Yield: Lined a rectangular baking pan, sized 11.5cm x 22cm x 5.5cm
Ingredients:
- 20 gm (2 Tbsp) cocoa powder
- 60 ml (3 Tbsp) hot water
- 200 gm cake flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 eggs
- 200 gm butter, softened at room temperature
- 180 gm caster sugar
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 40 ml milk, room temperature
- Preheat oven to 180C / 350F. Mix the cocoa powder with hot water thoroughly until no lumps inside. Set aside.
- Combine and sift the cake flour, baking powder and salt.
- Beat the softened butter with an electric mixer at low speed. Add sugar and gradually increase speed to medium-high. Continue to beat until very pale and creamy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl occasionally.
- Mix in the eggs one by one. Combine completely between each addition. Stir in the cocoa mixture and vanilla extract.
- Sift in the flour mixture in 3 batches. Stir in the milk in 2 batches after each addition of the flour mixture. With a spatula, lightly combine all the ingredients. Make sure not to over-mix it as you don’t want your cake turns tough. Transfer the batter into the lined cake mould. Level the surface with spatula or the back of a spoon. Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes. If an inserted needle comes out clean, it’s cooked. Remove the cake from oven and rest for 5 minutes. Remove from the mould. Let it cool completely on a wire rack. Enjoy!
- You may briefly whisk the egg before adding into the butter mixture in 3 batches.
- Cake flour is a kind of low-protein flour, available at Asian grocers or bakery shops.
- The water absorption rate of flour is very different from brand to brand. You may adjust the batter consistency by adding a little bit of water/milk if it’s too dry, or adding a bit of flour if it’s too moist.
- If the surface of your cake turns brown too quickly, loosely place a foil on top.
- If you like to have a straight-line crack running beautifully on the cake surface, use a knife to score a line on the batter surface after baking 10 minutes.
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