Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, white lotus root cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
White Lotus Root Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. White Lotus Root Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
If a skewer stuck into the middle comes out clean, it's done. If you want the cake to have a whiter surface, bake covered with a piece of aluminum foil. Next, boil the lotus seeds over medium heat for another hour. When the lotus seeds are done boiling, drain and grind them into a smooth paste in a blender, adding a little water if necessary.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook white lotus root cake using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make White Lotus Root Cake:
- Take 1 Lotus root
- Make ready 100 grams Flour
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp Baking powder
- Get 50 ml Honey
- Get 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Get 100 ml Soy milk
It's done once the lotus seeds are softened but have maintained their shape. In a stand mixer, beat together the butter and light brown sugar for a few minutes until light and fluffy. Add in the flour, eggs, baking powder and vanilla and beat again briefly till combined - try not to overbeat! I suddenly got the idea to make white and black vegetable-based cakes!
Instructions to make White Lotus Root Cake:
- Put the flour and baking powder in a plastic bag, close it up with plenty of air in the bag, and shake to mix. This way you don't need to sift it.
- Grate the lotus root: use your fingers to remove the thin membranes in the holes of the root. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Combine the grated lotus root, honey, vegetable oil and soy milk.
- Mix the flour combination from step 1 to the mixture from Step 3. It's hard to tell from the photo, but it's easier to cut a corner of the bag and add the contents to the bowl rather than opening the bag up.
- Pour the batter into a lined cake pan. In the photo, I used a cake pan made with newspaper. If you're using a pound cake tin or a milk carton, the ingredient amounts listed above are fine!
- Bake for about 20 minutes in a preheated 180°C oven. If a skewer stuck into the middle comes out clean, it's done. If you want the cake to have a whiter surface, bake covered with a piece of aluminum foil.
- If you're topping the cake with lotus root chips: microwave thinly sliced lotus root for 25 minutes. If they're not crispy enough, heat on a grill (or similar).
Add in the flour, eggs, baking powder and vanilla and beat again briefly till combined - try not to overbeat! I suddenly got the idea to make white and black vegetable-based cakes! Black would be burdock root, and white. I decided to try lotus root, keeping to the root vegetable family! Since lotus root becomes sticky and doughy when heated, I thought maybe I can use it instead of eggs.
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