Purple Sweet Potato Steamed Cake (Huat Kueh) 紫薯蒸发糕
These Purple Sweet Potato Steamed Cake looks so good and tastes even better. These type of steamed cakes are also known as prosperity cake, huat kueh or apam kukus. Soft, spongy, rich and filled with goodness of purple sweet potato. Simply delicious!
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Servings: 4 steamed cake
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 120 grams all-purpose flour, sieved
- ¼ tsp salt
- 80 grams sugar
- ¼ tsp yeast
- 80 grams fresh milk, can also use coconut milk
- 80 grams water
- 25 grams vegetable oil
- 50 grams purple sweet potato, steamed and mashed
Cut purple sweet potato into small pieces.
Bring water to a boil and steam the purple sweet potato for 20 mins till cooked.
Mash into a paste and set aside.
In a large bowl, add in sieved flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Mix everything together.
Then add milk, water and vegetable oil.
Stir well till you get a smooth batter.
Set aside 100g batter.
Add in 50g mashed purple sweet potato and mix well.
Cover both batter with cling wrap and set aside to proof for 1 hour.
To steam the cake, first prepare steamer by bringing water to a rapid boil.
Place steaming cups into a steamer and line with paper liners. (Diameter: 7.5cm)
Using an ice-cream scoop, first spoon original batter followed by the purple sweet potato batter into each of the prepared steaming cups.
Smoothen the top with a spatula. And we are ready to steam the purple sweet potato cakes.
Place the steaming cups into the prepared steamer and steam over high heat for 15 minutes.
Then remove steamed cakes and allow to cool on wire rack.
The purple sweet potato steamed cakes are ready to be served. So Enjoy!
Instructions
Preparing Batter:
Steam Purple Sweet Potato Cake:
Enjoy!
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Recipe Video
Notes
- Be sure the mash the steamed purple sweet potatoes while it's still hot.
- After the batter has risen, you need to still the batter to mix it well before spooning into the lined steaming cups.
- To make sure the cake has a beautiful crack on the top, you need to fill the batter to full or almost full. Also, make sure the steamer is hot and ready before you fill the lined steaming cups so you can steam immediately. Do not leave the batter in the steaming cups to wait for the steamer to be ready.
- Do not open the cover of the steamer during steaming. Otherwise the cakes may not rise.
- Use high heat when steaming.
- These steamed cakes can be kept frozen as well. Simply remove from freezer the night before and steam for 15 minutes and they will be soft and fluffy again.