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Castella Cake

Ingredients
  

  • 6 eggs
  • 150 g Raw Caster Sugar or 180g Caster sugar
  • 3 Tbsp Best Grade Honey
  • 3 Tbsp Hot Water
  • 150 g Bread Flour

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven at 160C.
  • Over a bain marie, whip the eggs whole and sugar until it turns to white. (Do not allow your bowl to touch the hot water!)
  • Mix the hot water and honey and add that to the eggs.
  • Fold in the flour, and bake in a square pan (20cm x 20cm)
  • Bake for 50 minutes on medium rack until cake has turned brown.
  • Once it is out of the oven, throw the cake down from 10 cm above kitchen bench.
  • Turn it over immediately and wrap it in cling wrap and then into the fridge.
  • The next day, trim off the 4 edges and cut them into pieces.
  • Best eaten after a day or two.