{"id":534,"date":"2010-02-15T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T07:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:02:08","slug":"orange-sponge-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Orange Sponge Cake &#8211; Arise, Let It Rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-541\" title=\"Orange Sponge Cake 1\" alt=\"Orange Sponge Cake 1\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-1-300x179.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-1-1024x613.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>This is definitely a cake that screams &#8216;<strong>HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Prima cake flour: 200g, sifted<\/li>\n<li>Baking powder: 2 tsp, sifted<\/li>\n<li>Icing sugar: 200g, sifted<\/li>\n<li>Orange juice: 150ml, freshly squeezed (about 3 oranges)<\/li>\n<li>Corn oil: 150ml<\/li>\n<li>Orange zest: 2 Tbsp (about 2 oranges)<\/li>\n<li>Egg: 7, yolk and white separated (egg white should make up 240ml)<\/li>\n<li>Cream of tartar: 1\/2 tsp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Method<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius.<\/li>\n<li>Mix flour, baking powder and sugar in mixing bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Make a depression in the center. Add egg yolks, orange juice, oil and stir well.<\/li>\n<li>Add orange zest and stir.<\/li>\n<li>Beat egg white and cream of tartar using electric mixer on high speed for 5min.<\/li>\n<li>Egg white should be stiff and able to hold its shape.<\/li>\n<li>Add cake batter to egg white and fold in gently till mixture turns even pale orange colour.<\/li>\n<li>Pour mixture into<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsubs.com\/EqBake.html\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>tube pan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (25cm). Bake for 50min.<\/li>\n<li>Remove and invert onto cooling rack. Leave to stand for 2 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Remove tin by running knife along perimeter of pan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-549\" alt=\"Orange Sponge Cake 2\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-21-1024x685.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-21-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Orange-Sponge-Cake-21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Tricks<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Use double-acting baking powder instead of baking powder to let the cake rise even higher.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Use a blender instead of a juicer to get at the juices of the orange, and then filter away the pulps.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Use a convection oven instead of conventional oven for faster and better results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Disclaimers<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a Sunday Times &#8216;Taste&#8217; Recipe, adapted from Madam Tham Yew Chin&#8217;s recipe book &#8216;<em>Crab Climbing Up the Tree&#8217;.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Using a jelly mould instead of a tube pan created a surprising result for me. In future, I intend to see animals rise&#8230; !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Serving<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\nMakes 1 medium-sized cake<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=534\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is definitely a cake that screams &#8216;HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,132],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","category-chinese","tag-chinese-new-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}