Spicy mango cake with a good cup of coffee |
A spicy cake? Something I would have never thought of. But
well, one time’s always the first time. And the result surprised me for real.
As my wife is a real cake lover, I was making this cake to honor her roots
(spicy, mango) and to satisfy her hunger for a week end cake. After searching
and browsing, I came over two cake recipes that I kind of modified and combines
into this cake (so let’s call it a fusion cake). This cake was not only a
successful trial, I will definitely make it again. Does it also sound a bit
suspicious to you that a cake should be sweet and spicy altogether? Well
honestly, I was like you. But give it a try and honestly, you will be surprised
by this one.
Ingredients:
- 125 g wheat flour
- 125 g rye flour
- 2 tea spoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of clove powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 200 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 115 g soft butter
- 2 Mango(s), peeled and without seed
- 75 g walnuts
- 35 g coconut
- 125 ml of dark rum
- 3 table spoon of brown sugar
Preparation:
Add some butter to a saucepan and heat it up. Add brown
sugar to the hot butter and melt the brown sugar until it’s molten and
caramelized, add the one peeled mango and let the mango get soft until its soft
and the flesh falls apart. Now, add the rum, cook it in the mixture, and then
carefully flambé off the rum until the flame goes out by itself. Now let the
mix simmer on a small flame and reduce the liquid in the mango mix, then switch
off when the mix reached a gooey consistency.
In a bowl, beat the eggs and the sugar until they are creamy
and the sugar dissolved in the liquid, and then add the soft butter and the
mango mix. Now slowly add the flour, salt, baking powder and clove powder to
the liquid and constantly stir so there will be no clumps developing. Now when
you got a nice, creamy and fluffy consistency of the dove, add the nuts, the
mango and the coconut flakes to the mix and stir it carefully in.
Pour everything in a buttered cake form and bake it at 175
degrees Celsius for 50 – 60 minutes. If you want to find out if the cake is
well baked, poke with a toothpick in the middle of the cake. If the pick comes
out dry and nothing sticking to it, the cake is most likely well baked through.
Just seeing there are rum, mango, walnut... I know this will be a winner.
ReplyDeletesounds delicious...yummy !!!
ReplyDeleteHaha .. some cake lovers :) thanks for the nice comments, indeed it was a nice cake. Will make it for ya'all when I come down under :)
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