Indonesia Thousand Layers Cake with mixed spices
Pan size: 20x20x8 cm
A:
400 grams of powdered sugar
60 egg yolks (900 g of egg yolks)
30 gr emulsifier
B:
600 gr highest quality butter
150 gr super margarine
2 grams of salt
40 gr condense milk
¼ tsp egg yellow food coloring
¼ tsp vanilla bean, use the seeds (or your preference, you can also use rhum if permitted by your religion, especially when using rhum, use sprayer to spray every layer of the cake when baking not by mixing it with this Butter mixturer) .
C:
80 g cake flour
50 grams of milk powder (full cream)
5 g of mixed spices spices (see note below for home made
mixed spices for this recipe)
1. Mix
A using ballon whisk. Do not "over-mix". Perform the following test:
if the batter is poured, it will slowly flowing, not too “heavy” flowing, just
half way before become stiff bater.
2. Mix
B using paddle attachment until it becomes light and pale (two types of butter should be chilled beforehand and cubed
using knife). Do not use soft or room temperature butter. Please prepare in
advance: place all butter and margarine in plastic bag. Do not use small
plastic bag because it has to be large enough but thin enough for the butter
after flattened. And then keep it
refrigerated and freeze it. Make this butter in plastic bag just like butter
used for pastry sheet. It has to be thinned enough so that when we mix it using mixer, it
will be easily whip without damaging the whisks/mixer.
3. Mix
the C and sieve into the A, and fold carefully.
And then, gradually mix with B (butter mixture) and mix with spatula
carefully.
4. Once
blended, we can start to bake the
batter.
5. If
using an electric oven, preheat the oven (upper and lower heat element) with a
temperature of 240 degrees Celsius. Then after the oven is ready put the empty
baking pan to preheat the pan. This pan
is already lined with baking sheet only at the bottom side, do not use anything
for the other 3 sides of the baking pan and don’t forget to smear only
the bottom of the panwith margarine and sprinkle with flour. Note: Only lined
the bottom part.
6. Take
the hot baking pan out of the oven, fill with batter and turn off “lower” heat
and bake the batter using only upper
heat.
7. When
making a lot of lapis legit at once, separate some portion of the dough in a container and store in a chiller,
covered with plastic cling – need to do this if we live in hot and humid country.
8. Pour
100 grams of batter in every layer. After every layer well baked and done
(should be brown color but do not burn), brush with the best butter using brush
for cooking.
Make sure every layer is done and not undercook nor burn.
11.Bake until finish.
Tips and Tricks, Problem Solving
1. flour
before mixing must be sieved.
2. Do
not give too much extra sugar for cake otherwhise, it will rise too much.
3. Always
give a little salt in the batter for
flavor enhancer.
4. The
first layer should be baked until evenly brownish color, otherwise it wont stick to the next
layer.
6. To get the
smooth top layer, using spatula, mix the last layer batter by pressing the
batter on to the bowl a bit to get rid off the air bubble. After we get a
smooth batter, the batter is ready to be baked.
If you can not find mixed spices,
you can make it yourself.
Recipe:
Cinnamon sticks : 10 sticks
(short sticks around 10 cm length), wash and then dried in the oven
Cardamom seeds : 15, dried in the oven and seeded , just use
the seed.
Nutmeg : 2 grind
Cloves: 10
Mix all of them using blender and
then sieve it.
