Bee Hive Cake

Today I’m trying out my mum’s recipe of bee hive cake. First time making, a little anxious whether it would turn out ok.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup plain flour
5 eggs
1/2 cup condensed milk
1 tbsp bicarbonate soda
2 level tbsp butter
This is the cup I use for measuring in this particular recipe. Not those conventional measuring cups meant for cooking

Method
1) Melt the sugar until disolved. Become 糖浆.

2) Add in water and bring to boil. Leave aside to let cold. This is the syrup after adding water to the disolved sugar.

3) Sieve flour together with Bicarbonate of Soda.

4) Beat eggs together with butter, then add in condensed milk. (Use manual egg beater) Beat the mixture till blended well.


5) Fold in flour. Mix well

6) Lastly, add in the syrup and beat well with egg beater until there are a lot of bubbles
7) Bake in moderate oven until golden brown

The end product… smell, look, taste exactly the same like what my mum had made.(She hasn’t bake this cake for so long) That was many many years ago, maybe in my primary school day. Hhmmm….so nostalgic eating this cake.

In the process of making this cake, I had wasted 4 eggs. The last egg I cracked into the mixing bowl was a rotten egg… gosh..it stint ..and the earlier 4 eggs had to go into the dustbin together with the rotten one.

Texture of this cake is not buttery, creamy or spongy. In fact it is a little springy. A little similar like “pat tong ko” which can be found in the kueh stall in market. I think “pat tong ko” is steamed version, but above is baked.