FILIPINO CUSTARD CAKE
The Skinny Pot recipe - FILIPINO
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1/6 cup of lemon juice (this is juice of 1/2 lemon)
- 1/6 cup water
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 3 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- 1
BOWL 1 : Cake Dry Ingredients (Nickname:CDI)
- 2
BOWL 2: MERINGUE (Nickname: M)
- 3
BOWL 3 : Cake wet Ingredients . (Nickname: CWI)
- 4
Bowl 4: Leche Flan (Nickname: LF)
- 5
Bowl 5: Excess egg whites (Nickname: EEG)
- 6
Pan:::::: I prepared 1 piece 8" pan that is 3-4 inch deep
- 7
AND i just want to emphasize THE EGGS... you will have an excess 3 egg whites.
- 8
I started with me, melting 1/3 cup of sugar in the 8" baking pan. And when it is melted, remove it from heat and set aside. Be careful not to burn the sugar. Once, it is melted, it is good.
- 9
Oven wire rack in the middle level.
- 10
Prepare a large deep pan, where your 8 inch pan fits,and half fill it with water.
- 11
Put inside the oven and PRE HEAT OVEN AT 350 F.
- 12
Prepare a large size bowl and sift the dry ingredients. Set aside.
- 13
Add in sugar, vanilla and evaporated milk to the leche flan (LF) bowl and mix until there is no lump seen. Set aside.
- 14
Add in lemon zest,lemon juice,water,sugar and oil to the cake wet ingredients bowl (CWI) and mix until smooth.Set aside.
- 15
Using an electric mixer, add in cream of tartar into the meringue bowl (M) bowl and mix on high. When it forms a bubble, slowly add sugar and mix egg white until it forms into stiff peaks. Set aside.
- 16
Pour the Leche Flan Mixture into the caramelized sugar.
- 17
Add the cake wet ingredients into the dry cake ingredients and mix until smooth.
- 18
Add the Meringue in 3 additions into cake ingredient mixture and very gently mix , in one direction until incorporated.
- 19
Pour mixture on top of the Leche Flan pan, flatten gently and bake for 50 minutes.
- 20
When done, gently remove cake and wiggle it for easy transfer .( TRANSFER CAKE WHILE STILL HOT)
- 21
Refrigerate and serve cold.