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Chocolate Lemon Pudding Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 125 g butter
  • 125 g icing sugar
  • 185 g flour you can also use wheat all purpose flour if you like
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 tsp BP
  • 1 tbsp grated lemon rind
  • 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice or 1/2 tbsp lemon extract

Pudding

  • 1 pouch of agar-agar 7 g, available at health store if not Asian stores, chocolate flavor
  • 1 jar of Nata de coco coconut jelly, optional
  • 900 cc milk
  • 100 g sugar

Sauce

  • 600 cc ml milk
  • 75 g sugar
  • a dash of salt
  • 1 1/2 tbsp corn starch mix with 1 1/2 tbsp water
  • 2 yolks
  • 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence
  • 1 tbsp rhum essence

Instructions

Cake

  • Beat butter and sugar until fluffy
  • Add in egg yolk one at a time while keep beating
  • Add in mixture of flour, BP and extract/juice
  • In a separate bowl, beat egg whites and lemon rind
  • Fold in egg white into batter and pour batter into prepared baking pan (am using half cylinder pan as shown)
  • Bake at preheated 350 F until toothpick comes out clean (about 25 minutes)
  • Take out from pan and cool on rack.

Pudding

  • Mix agar-agar powder with milk and sugar in a pot.
  • Bring to boil, stirring continuously.
  • Place drained nata de coco, if using, on the base of your pan (the same shape for the cake).
  • Pour agar-agar mixture slowly, covering nata de coco, then place your cooled cake on top of it, and pour the rest of the agar-agar mixture (trim the cake a bit so it end and front would be covered by the pudding as well).
  • Let it cool a bit before firming it in the fridge.

Sauce

  • Simmer milk, salt, and sugar, stir to dissolve
  • Before milk becomes too hot, take out a ladle or two, and mix it with yolk
  • Pour yolk mixture into the pot, stir continuously, and add in corn starch mixture
  • Once thickened, take off from heat and add in essences, stir to combine

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