CHRISTMAS LOG CAKE
Chocolate Sponge
80 g PrimaFlour Top Flour
20 g Corn Flour
15 g Cocoa Powder
½ tsp Baking Powder
5 Eggs
125 g Castor Sugar
1 ¾ Emulsifier
25 ml Water
60 g Melted Butter
Instructions
Line a rectangular baking tray (36cm
x 30.5cm x 5.1cm) with greaseproof paper.
Whisk eggs, sugar and emulsifier at
high speed for 5 mins.
Stiff PrimaFlour Top Flour, corn flour,
cocoa powder and baking powder together
and add into the mixture at low speed.
Slowly add water and mix well.
Add melted butter.
Pour mixture into the lined baking
tray and bake at 200° for about 10-12
mins.
Turn out the sponge on clean greaseproof
paper and leave to cool at room temperature
for about 20 mins.
Chocolate Butter Cream 200 g Butter
350 g Margarine
230 g Icing Sugar
350 g Melted Chocolate
Cream butter and margarine at medium speed.
Add icing sugar gradually and beat till fluffy.
Add melted chocolate and mix well.
How to decorate a log cake (See illustration)
Spread some butter cream on the sponge cake.
Roll the sponge cake into a swiss roll.
Cut off ends of cake diagonally and with
the help of some butter cream, attach the pieces
to resemble tree branches.
Cover the log with the remaining butter cream
and make a bark-like design on it with a fork.
Sift icing sugar over the log and decorate
as desired. Chill for 1 hour before serving.
ORANGE CHIFFON CAKE
120 g PrimaFlour Top Flour
1 ½ tsp Baking Powder
1 Orange
3 Egg Yolks
50 ml Corn Oil
4 Egg Whites
¼ tsp Cream of Tartar
100 g Castor Sugar
Pinch of Salt
Instructions
Mix corn oil with 50 g sugar. Add yolks and beat
till smooth. Then add grated orange rind and 50
ml of juice. Mix well. (Continue as in step 4
of above recipe)
PANDAN CHIFFON CAKE
100 g PrimaFlour Top Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tbsp Pandan Juice
100 ml Coconut Milk
4 Egg Yolks
50 ml Corn Oil
¼ tsp Green Colouring
5 Egg Whites
¼ tsp Cream of Tartar
100 g Castor Sugar
Pinch of Salt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 170°.
Extract pandan juice from finely pounded
pandan leaves and add to coconut milk.
Add egg yolk, 50 g sugar, oil, colouring
and salt to the coconut mixture. Mix well
using hand whisk.
Sift PrimaFlour Top Flour and baking
powder and fold into mixture. Mix until
smooth. Set aside.
Beat egg whites and tartar at high
speed until formy. Add remaining 50 g
sugar and beat until stiff.
Add 1/3 beaten egg white to the yolk
mixture and mix using a hand whisk.
Slowly fold in this mixture to the
remaining 2/3 of beaten egg whites.
Pour mixture into an ungreased 18cm
chiffon tin and bake for about 50mins.
Turn tin over on a cake rack to cool
before loosening cake.
WALNUT COOKIES
675 g PrimaFlour Top Flour
340 g Butter
340 g Icing Sugar
3 Medium-Sized Eggs
50 g Custard Powder
½ tsp Ammonium Bicarbonate
200 g Chopped Walnuts
Instructions
Add the butter, egg and icing sugar
into a mixing bowl and mix at low speed
for 2 mins.
Add the PrimaFlour Top Flour, custard
powder and ammonium bicarbonate. Then
slowly add in the chopped walnuts and
mix well.
Press the mixture into a square baking
pan until about ½ cm thick. Place
the mixture in the freezer until firm.
Remove the set mixture from the freezer
and cut into small, even squares.
Preheat the oven to 180° and bake
for 15-20 mins until golden brown.
Place on a wire rack to cool before storing
in an airtight container.