Recipe 69: Golden Vanilla Custard Cake ~ Spices n Secrets

There are times when you are wishing for a cake but have no cake flour at hand. But should that stop you?

I guess not!

Today, I am sharing a rather experimental baking that actually turned out very good.

Made with custard powder, this cake is golden in color, very vanilly flavour and super soft from the hot milk trick I played on it.

Hot Milk Cakes are a thing. I googled it several years back and made one. Hot milk when added to the cake batter tenderizes the flour and immediately heats up the batter. Resulting in activating the baking powder/soda for a good risen and soft cake crumbs.

Today I re-created it by more additions like custard powder.

Take good quality custard powder in vanilla flavor and you will automatically yield a yellow cake in a deeper vanilla flavor.

The use of whole wheat instead of all-purpose flour was just by chance. And, frankly I quite liked it. The cake is unusually soft and fluffy which I did not expect considering that whole wheat naturally makes baked products chewy and dense. I do, however, plan to remake this same recipe with all-purpose flour one day and see how different it turns out in terms of texture.

I had a few dark chocolates in hand and wanted to add in this cake. I imagined a chunky chocolate layer on top of cake but what happened during baking, was that all the chocolate sunk inside and formed an interesting molten lava just at the center of the cake. It was not a bad thing at all!