Steamed Oil Cake

Name: Steamed Oil Cake
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 2 cups flour; 2 eggs; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon vanilla essence; Pinch salt; 1 tablespoon baking powder; Water to correct consistency

Grace's Lab @cook_20227675

Nairobi

I've done steamed cakes before and they always turn out super moist. So my oven went on strike after I had already mixed the batter (I'm a rebel - who cares about preheating? Preheating's for softies hahaha!). Then I decide to try out what a friend told me about cooking cakes in the pressure cooker. Why not? I am NOT in the mood to make pancakes with should-have-been-cake-batter! Long story short, oven complies mid-steaming (luckily I kept it on) so the cake is half steamed, half finished in the oven and, I kid you not, I'm surprised how good it turned out! I can't get enough of it! LOL! I love menu accidents that birth works of genius!

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Ingredients

6 servings

2 cupsflour
2eggs
1/2 cupvegetable oil
1 cupsugar
1 tablespoonvanilla essence
Pinchsalt
1 tablespoonbaking powder
Water to correct consistency

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Steps

1

Put the eggs, vanilla, sugar, oil, and salt in a bowl and whisk very well until well mixed and a little bit bubbly.
2

Add the flour and baking powder and beat into the mixture, adding a little water occasionally until the batter is of the right consistency for cake (you might need prior experience here or just plain good instincts).
3

Put some water in a pressure cooker and something to place your cake pan on so it's not resting at the bottom of the pressure cooker. Heat the water to boiling.
4

Put the batter into a cake pan that can fit into the pressure cooker and place on the support structure inside the pressure cooker.
5

Close the pressure cooker and steam for about 20-30 minutes until your cake is well risen. Make sure the steaming water is enough so that it doesn't run dry.
6

When the cake is well set, place in the oven at 200 degrees until it browns well (it is white when out of the steamer), around 15 minutes.
7

Take it out and let it cool.

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Grace's Lab @cook_20227675

on July 06, 2020 16:22

Nairobi

Let food be thy medicine.Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.I am for healthy, instinctive, seasonal, personal, pleasurable, and spiritual nutrition.