Pandan Chiffon Cake
Nothing beats a good Pandan Chiffon Cake. It is light, soft and fluffy! Almost like a cottoncandy if that make sense.
This cake is Singaporeans’ favourites. We love our Pandan cakes and we can eat it any time of the day. Breakfast along with a cup of coffee, or just an afternoon snack. It is just so delicious.
Making a chiffon cake isn’t hard at all. Some tips and tricks for you before we begin.
- Use some vinegar or cream of tartar in your egg whites to stabilize
- Use the right size tube pan
- Do NOT grease your pan
- Turn your pan upside down after you bake
The beautiful green comes from the Pandan leaves and paste. Some choose to leave the paste out of their recipe. But, I always think that adding some extra Pandan paste to the batter will make it an even more fragrant and flavoursome.
Not only that, using coconut milk instead of just plain water will yield you even aromatic and mouth-watering Pandan chiffon cake. I know that coconut milk has a high content of fats but a little makes a lot of differences!
- 5 egg whites
- ¾ tsp. of vinegar
- (1/4 cup) 60 grams of white sugar
- 5 egg yolks
- (1/4 cup) 60 grams of white sugar
- (3/4 cup) 100 grams of plain flour
- (2 tbsp.) 20 grams of corn starch
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. pandan paste
- (1/4 cup) 65 ml of vegetable oil
- (1/4 cup) 65 ml of coconut milk + 2 tbsp. of water
- 35 grams of pandan leaves, chopped
- Preheat oven to 160C or 140C fan-forced.
- To extract pandan leaves,
- Puree coconut milk, water and pandan leaves in a chopper until smooth.
- Then, strain the mixture. Discard the residue.
- Let’s start mixing the egg yolk batter,
- In a large bowl, whisk egg yolks and sugar vigorously for about a minute until pale in color.
- Next drizzle in pandan-coconut mixture and pandan paste.
- Add in oil.
- Lastly, sift in plain flour, corn starch, baking powder and salt.
- Stir until well combined and set aside while you whisk your egg whites.
- For the egg whites,
- In your stand mixer, whisk in egg whites and vinegar on high speed until frothy. Then, gradually add in sugar and continue whisking until stiff peaks.
- Fold in egg white mixture a large dollop at a time into the egg yolk batter.
- Transfer into a 21 cm ungreased tube pan. Use a skewer and run around the batter to remove large air bubbles. Drop the pan to also remove large air bubbles.
- Bake it in the oven for about 55 minutes to an hour.
- Invert the cake with the pan immediately after baking and let it cool completely.
- Once cooled, run a knife around the sides and bottom. Serve.
20 Comments
Huong Binh Nguyen
Delicious chiffon pandan cake . Your notes in the instruction very clear and easy to understand . I will try to make this , thanks so much .
Joanne
I only have a 17cm tube pan – I think this will be a very tall cake.. do you think ill need to adjust the baking time though?
Zong Han Chua
I think it will overflow. You may want to reduce the recipe by 25%/
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Villia
Hi, wanna ask, why my chiffon after bake, it has shrink. Is that a problem with the oven? Thank u
Zong Han Chua
There are many factors that affect the chiffon cake.
Is your oven preheated to the correct temperature? Did you bake long enough?
Is the size of your chiffon pan the same stated from the recipe?
Did you whip up your egg whites to stiff peaks? Or did you over whipped it?
Chiffon cake will shrink, but it will shrink a lot. just a little.
Bubuwabbit
It will shrink a lot if its not baked thoroughly dry enough. Also, after removing from oven, drop cake pan on countertop 2-3 times so that the impact will force out some hot air inside and wont shrink significantly after cool down. Over turn your cake pan and let cake cool completely before removing it from cake pan.
Bubuwabbit
Hi Zonghan, thx for your easy recipe using cups measurement! Lot more convenient than weighing!
I tried a second and third time on this recipe with a tray of water on the lowest rack while baking on the second lowest rack, same temp but extending bake time to 1hr 5mins, silver color cake pan, no open to check in between, the cake yielded is much more moist texture. My friends and family love the rich flavor and not too sweet! Thanks again!
miahang
I love Pandan cake a lot!
Coincidently, I saw your recipe on Youtube ,which was very clear and seemed makable as I never made a cake before.
I wish i can make one by following your instructions, but I got some questions for you.
1. Is the vinegar you mentioned in the recipe regular white vinegar?
2. Which brand you recommend on the pandan paste?
3. Coconut milk is a powder or liquid version?
Thanks!
I would very much appreciate your response.
Zong Han Chua
1. Yes
2. I’m not too sure, I used BakeKing but some prefer others.
3. I used liquid
Lee acd
Thks for the recipe . I just baked it . So fluffy n soft . But I dun get the brown edges that you have .
Is it under bake or temp too low ?
Zong Han Chua
I think you would have to check your oven settings as it maybe too low.
Effa
Hi..I would like to use all with pandan leaves and leave out the paste.. How much pandan leaves should I use? =)
Zong Han Chua
The same amount. Just omit the paste.
🙂
Derish
Hello can i skip the cornstarch ?
Zong Han Chua
Sure
Kelvin
Hihi.thank q for the video. May I know is pandan paste same as pandan colouring? And can I skip vinegar?
Zong Han Chua
I believe it’s the same. Yes, you may skip the vinegar (or replace it with cream of tartar). But, the purpose of using vinegar is to increase stability of the egg white structure.
Chandana Mukherjee
Hi. This recipe is awesome!
I have a 6” tube pan so what I did was followed the measurements of your strawberry marble chiffon recipe. This cake came out so well!! My first successful chiffon cake!! Yay!! Now I am motivated to try the other chiffon cake recipes too.
Thank you!!
Zong Han Chua
Amazing! Enjoy 🙂