Screwpine Chiffon (Pickyin)

Thank you Rima....

SCREWPINE CHIFFON (Pickyin)
Posted by MamaFaMi
Source : Bisous À Toi 

Ingredients :

For the 1/2 cup pandan leaf coconut juice :
1/4 cup coconut milk
1/4 cup water
a few drops green coloring
1/2 teaspoon pandan essence

For the flour batter :
180 g self-rising flour
100 g castor sugar
8 egg yolks
6 tablespoons corn oil
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda

For the meringue :
8 egg whites
100 g castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

Method :

1. Pre-heat oven to 170°C and position a wire rack at the lower third rack. Prepare a clean 25cm chiffon cake tin, do not grease. (Since I made just half the recipe, I used a 21 cm chiffon cake tin)

2. Sift the flour and baking soda into a small bowl.

3. In a separate large mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the corn oil to form an emulsion. Add the pandan leaf juice or pandan leaf juice plus coconut milk mixture.

4. Mix well before adding the sugar and whisk till sugar has melted.

5. Pour the mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk well into a smooth batter, there should be no lumps. Set aside.

6. On high speed of a stand or hand held mixer, whisk together the egg whites and cream of tartar. Start adding the sugar once the egg whites begin to foam, gradually in 3 additions. Beat till the meringue is smooth and glossy, with stiff peaks. Be careful not to overbeat the egg whites.

7. Immediately stir in approximately 1/3 of the meringue into the flour batter. With a flexible rubber or silicon spatula, fold in the meringue gently and mix well. Once a roughly homogeneous mixture is achieved, add the rest of the meringue and repeat the gentle, light-handed folding process till the cake batter is well combined. Scoop from the bottom of the bowl to ensure no meringue or flour batter is left unmixed. Do not beat or overwork the batter as this will knock out the air you've put into the meringue.

8. Pour the cake mixture into the cake tin. Using your spatula, dip it into the batter right to the bottom and make circles around the tin twice. This is to remove any large air bubbles possibly trapped while pouring in the cake batter.

9. Bake at 170°C for 10 minutes. Lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for another 45 to 50 minutes or until cake is done. The cake tester should come out clean. Don't fret if the top of your cake cracks a little, this is normal.

10. Release the cake by running a sharp, thin knife along the sides of the cake tin and subsequently the bottom of the tube. The cake is meant to be served upside down as it is heavier on the top.

* Cake keeps well chilled in an airtight container or cling wrapped up to five days (three if using coconut milk).

Note from Pickyin, thank you :

Recipe is from Pickyin mother's friend, original source unknown, makes a 25cm 5-inches tall cake.

1. I didn't have any self raising flour as I don't often bake with it so I made my own by using 180 grams all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons baking powder and a ¼ teaspoon salt, based loosely on the conversion method at Deb's Smitten Kitchen. This recipe has over 80% of flour over liquid ratio so it is a very stable chiffon. It is kept soft and moist with the equal amount of egg yolks used as opposed to the whites.

2. I realized after speaking to a few friends wanting to make this cake that many do not own a 25cm bundt or angel food cake tin. There are two ways you can handle this situation without getting a bigger tin. The first is to make the entire recipe, pour enough batter into ¾ of your tin and bake the rest in lined muffin tin(s) for about 30 minutes. The muffin-sized cakes will be more dense but will still be great. Alternatively use the following tin size-number of eggs conversion to modify the recipe.

14cm tin - 1 egg
7cm tin - 2 eggs
21cm tin - 4 eggs
23cm tin - 6 eggs
25cm tin - 8 eggs

Have a nice day!