Pandan Chiffon Cake

A friend of my mom gave us a bunch? a bush? of pandan leaves. With this much of pandan leaves, we don't know what to do about it. All i could think is about cake, kuih and steam rice. So, I come out about 2 different types of cake today, but not kuih coz i don't really like to steam things as my gas stove's 'fire power' isn't that good. The final products alway came out with fail. So i'm gonna skip that.  Further blabbing, let's straight to the 1st recipe.

Ingredients:

30g pandan leaves

100ml water

55ml pandan juice

20ml Santan(coconut milk)/ plain milk

25g vegetable oil

4 egg yolks

1/8tsp salt

80g cake flour

4 egg whites

60g granulated sugar

Steps:

1. Blend the pandan leaves+water. Squeeze and sift it 2 times to get pure pandan juice. Weigh the pandan juice and set aside. 
2. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
3. In a bowl, whisk the yolk thoroughly, add salt + vegetable oil + pandan juice + santan and mix it until all combined. 
4. Sift the cake flour into the yolk mixture and mix it until no flour can be seen.
5. Beat the egg whites. Slowly add in the sugar in 4 portions and beat it until it becomes stiff peak.
6. Take 1/4 of meringue and fold into the yolk batter to loosen it up. Then, pour the yolk mixture to the meringue and gently mix until no white can be seen. (Do not over mix!)
7. Pour into a clean and no grease/parchment paper of 18cm Chiffon cake mold. Use a chopstick/ skewer gently draw around the circle or simply tap the pan on the table/counter a few times to remove the bubble. 
8. Bake it for 45min, then turn up the temperature to 180°C and bake another 5 min. 
9. Once done baking, invert the cake and let it cool. 
10. Unmold the cake with a small knife or offset spatula along with a small press. Cut it into equal pieces and serve.

Although the color isn't as bright as what we saw in the market. But it still smell great and taste a hint of the pandan flavor. It almost like a sweet-vanilla taste and a little coconutty flavor. By the way, you can use the pandan extract to make this tho. The remaining of pandan juice save it, put in the fridge to store for like 5-7 days or so. Or take the juice to make pancakes or bread. 

Isn't i said there is another cake recipe by using pandan leaves...Well, stay tune for the future post. Have a great day and enjoy your baking :)