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Welcome Home Cake

Husband's home YAY!! But he was kinda knocked out from exhaustion and got sick too, and so I did lotsa cleaning over the weekend. Junior is glad to have his daddy back, he's such a happy boy :)

My Sundays are back i.e. the usual sneaking-in-a-bake in the morning while Husband is asleep hehe. Made a welcome home cake for Husband! Also an excuse to try my new heritage bundt pan, my one true love in the baking pan world. Just look at it! It is just. Gorgeous. Totally worth the $52 I splurged. If I have a daughter I'll pass it down to her. HAHA.

I wanted to make the fool-proof confirm Husband-approved butter cake, but I couldn't resist not making any changes so I decided to mix around a bit, used my pandan essence to make pandan marble cake. I added a bit of green colouring but it was too little, should have added more. The marbling effect isn't obvious. The pandan taste wasn't overpowering, just a hint of pandan. I think it would be better if the pandan batter was mixed with coconut milk instead of low-fat milk that I used for the main cake batter. But oh wells! Low fat milk is healthier than thick coconut milk!

I used Tish Boyle's butter pound cake recipe, with a few tweaks. The recipe is similar to my mum's butter cake recipe.

Pandan Marble Cake

225g butter, softened
7oz flour
6 oz sugar (cos I only had that!) + 4 tbsp condensed milk
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1/2 cup low fat milk (I didn't measure, but I'm guessing it's about 1/2 cup?)
1 tbsp lemon juice (because I don't have lemon zest)
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tsp pandan kaya flavour (I used redman brand)
  1.  Preheat oven at 160 degrees Celsius, butter and flour a 10-cup bundt pan.
  2. Cream butter, sugar and condensed milk.
  3. Add in the eggs one at a time, mixing well before adding the next. Add vanilla essence.
  4. Incorporate flour and baking powder into the batter. Add in lemon juice.
  5. Mix in milk, then split the batter into two. Add the pandan flavour and a bit of green colouring. I should have added more colouring but I was scared it will turn out too green to eat. Haha.
  6. Bake for 45 minutes or until the cake tester comes clean when poked through the cake. 
I thought the cake wasn't sweet enough, but maybe I should lower my sweet standards cos too much sugar isn't good anyway. The cake is very moist and rich, love it! Maybe next time I can add a bit more pandan. Husband said that it's good, I was kinda surprised cos he didn't say anything on Sunday itself, only yesterday. He told me to bake another one for the road when we go to Port Dickson this coming weekend. *beams!* I totally love it when he loves what I make. Haha. Have to remember to get eggs and sugar then! :)


Before baking. I am still not an expert when it comes to making the marble swirl effect. Clearly no artistic talent -_-


Fresh from the oven! The recipe doesn't result in a large cake, which is fine cos I need to cut down on my quantity! Two people shouldn't be eating too much cake.


Yumyumz! Totally totally love the cake shape! But my green batter can't be seen. Sadness. Nevermind! I'll try again!
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