Taro Blizzard or Taro Snowy Cake 芋泥雪貝 has been a very popular on-trend cake in East Asia the past year. Basically it is a petit four sponge cake sandwiched with sweetened taro paste and mochi. However outside Asia, mochi filling is not that easily available, the method used here in this cooking video used cream cheese instead of the mochi filling so that makes it easier to replicate at home. If you want to make taro paste (should be available ready made in larger Asian supermakets) yourself, I have a recipe in my older post.
(more…)April 24, 2023
July 29, 2022
【廚娘香Q秀】Taiwanese Savoury Sponge Cake 經典鹹蛋糕
This is a type of old fashioned Chinese-style savoury cake filled with a thin layer of pork floss or minced pork, soy sauce and fried shallots that is steamed traditionally as Asian kitchens don’t have ovens in the old days. However this type of steamed savoury cake is now rarely seen. I came across this cooking video with a new version that is baked and rolled up into a Swiss roll…
(more…)July 20, 2021
Chocolate Cake (Tianmu version) 古典巧克力蛋糕
Finally tested the chocolate cake from the video I posted earlier. It came out very well, although looking very rustic but it smelled heavenly!
July 3, 2021
【Vita Dolce 甜蜜生活手作甜點】Classic Chocolate Cake 古典巧克力蛋糕
Saw this chocolate cake recipe a couple of days ago, and I’m thinking of trying out the recipe in the future, so I’m keeping the recipe and video here. As with a lot of recipes from commercial kitchens, we have to take it with a grain of salt as most would keep some important details to themselves, but in saying that I’m still interested in experimenting with this recipe. We can see from the video and the recipe attached, there are inconsistencies! However by watching the the video and reading the recipe attached, we should be able to fill in the gaps…
(more…)January 11, 2021
【廚娘香Q秀】Cantonese Steamed Sponge Cake 馬拉糕／馬來糕
This is the modern-style Cantonese Sponge Cake.
(more…)August 11, 2020
【廚娘香Q秀】Lemon Curd Cupcakes 檸檬卡士達杯子蛋糕
Lemon curd filled cupcakes with cream cheese icing…
(more…)July 1, 2020
【Slow TV】Taiwanese Jiggly Sponge Cake 台灣古早味蛋糕
In the past couple of years, something called Jiggly Cake has been making the rounds on social media. Actually it is not something new, someone has just come up with a catchy English name for the traditional sponge cake from Taiwan which in Chinese is 古早味蛋糕, meaning traditional flavoured cake. It is also known as Pillow Cake (枕頭蛋糕) because it is soft and fluffy! Now you might think that was it, but it has a history linking back to Japan and Portugal, because this cake is also known as Taiwanese Castella Cake.
(more…)March 15, 2020
【飲食男女】抹茶旋風蛋糕捲
This is the first time I have seen something like this, a very innovative and interesting way of creating patterns on a Swiss roll. So I’m keeping the link to the video here for references so I don’t have to look for it in the future…
(more…)March 6, 2020
【型男大主廚】Strawberry Mille-Crêpe Roll 夢幻草莓千層卷
Saw this video of a Japanese pastry chef, Masahiro Orita, making mille crêpe roll in 8 minutes! I think due to time constraint, he only made 2 crêpes, but at home if you want to make it, you can increase it to at least 5-6 crêpes per roll to really make it look like thousand-layer…
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Corner Café 