This is my lemon chiffon cake. I love the lemony essence and the pillowy soft texture of this chiffon cake.
Other than lemon flavor, I also love coffee and pandan (screwpine leaf) chiffon cake.
What kind of chiffon cake do you like?
(Adapted from Oprah.com)
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup water
7 egg yolks
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Grated zest of 2 lemons
2 teaspoon vanilla
8 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
Method:
Preheat the oven to 325°. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the center; add the water, egg yolks, oil, lemon zest and vanilla. Whisk the dry ingredients into the yolk mixture until the batter is blended and smooth. Set aside.
In a large mixer bowl, beat the egg whites and the cream of tartar at medium-low speed until foamy. Gradually increase the speed to high and beat the whites until stiff (but not dry) peaks form. Gently fold 1/3 of the beaten whites into the batter with a rubber spatula just until blended. Fold in the remaining whites just until combined. Pour the batter into an ungreased tube pan or bundt pan. (I used bundt pan because I don’t have a tube pan).
Bake 1 hour, or until the top springs back when lightly touched with a fingertip and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
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I love chiffon cake! And lemon is one of my favorite flavor. Don’t you just love the light texture?
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ahhh lovely!!!
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your website is always there on my computer. 24 hrs. i am glad to be the first one to write a comment. is this cake like the chinese paper cupcake? very nice pic. actually they re all nice.
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Pandan flavour is my favourite. I usually get mine from pasar malam. Cos it’s so soft, can be quite addictive. Finish off within minutes. Hahaha…well, it’s not fattening rite?
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Love your picture…and I love chiffon cake too…my favorite flavor has to be orange chiffon cake :)
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mmm lemon chiffon, sounds wonderful. In Japan, they have Earl Grey chiffon which is quite nice too.
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Lemon chiffon is my favorite, too.
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i like chiffon cake, but mine are never soft!! I’m bad at beating egg white. what’s soft peak, stiff peak? any website provide more ingo on this? Many Thanks!!!
daudau
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hey oics look gr8. wanna try urs soon.
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I’m a big fan of lemon chiffon as well as orange and chocolate chiffon cakes. So light and soft!
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Another yummy tangy cake.
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Pandan chiffon would be my choice *drool*
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Looks good! love your plates as well..
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Love chiffon cake but never bake one before because i don’t have the baking pan.. but planning to get one soon.. i love all kind of flavor
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Looks so yummy!
Pandan chiffon cake is my favorite flavor, and then I would have to say orange chiffon…
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Yuzu chiffon cake! =)
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i think i’ll go for chiffon as well :) and in a complete contrast a dense chocolate cake with probably just 2 tbs of flour. Depends really on the mood :P
This slice looks perfect !
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Lovely looking piece.
Chiffon cake is my fav type of cake. I do bake a lot. My fav flavour is mocha. Do check out a few flavours of chiffon cakes at my blog
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your chiffon cake looks lovely! My favorite is pandan chiffon cake!
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Hi Rasa Malaysia,
I am a big fan of your blog. Do you happen to know any Sarawakian recipes? I was born there but am a transplant in the US and would love to know if there is a Malaysian out there who knows the ingredients for “kampua mee” - the famous dry noodle dish from Sarawak.
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Oooh, if you look closely, you can see little flecks of lemon zest amongst it’s innards - Beautiful.
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Any chiffon is good.. as long i dont have to DIY on my own.. LOL
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Lemon chiffon cake sounds good. I just tried an orange chiffon cake today.
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lovely lovely cake, .looks soo moist and yumm
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pandan chiffon cake is the best! back in msia, all bakeries sell them but now in the us, came str8 fr the box. lol!
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Your cake looks lovely! So tall and fluffy! I was always scared of making chiffon cake what with the beating of egg whites and getting the cake to be fluffy…but I prevailed and made on too (as part of this month’s Daring Bakers challenge)! :) It is nowhere near as fluffy looking as your’s though :)
I like pandan too!
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chiffon cake my favourite! love almost all da flavours… :D
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Pandan is my fav! This looks lovely and light! just what I need now.
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I love lemon so when I stumbled across your recipe for lemon chiffon cake I decided I had to try it. I thought it was a good recipe to try for someone like me (who has never made a cake from scratch before).
The next time I make this cake I think I’ll have to halve the recipe. I tried it today and it turned out wonderfully! :) Only, it made so much batter that while it was cooking some of the batter fell to the bottom of the oven and caused a very small fire (I caught it right away and no harm was caused).
Despite this, the cake was a success and everyone loved it. :)
I’m going to try to make a cake for my mother’s birthday next month…this time without any fire! *lol*
Thank you for posting this recipe on your blog. :) I will be coming back to find more delicious recipes.
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Your recipe is so easy to follow and my lovely chiffon cake turn out perfect. I share it with my friends for Chinese New Year! Thanks!
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I love baking! I looked up a recipe for a Japanese Strawberry shortcake and realized that the method was very similar to a chiffon cake style, and that’s what got me into it =) I just made my first two, yesterday and the day before, but both of them turned out rock hard…Though my second one wasn’t as horrific; I must be doing something wrong, huh? I must try your version though! Nice pics!
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Lekker!!!!
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I have been looking for a chiffon cake recipe without the use of cake flour. I have never had lemon chiffon cake before but theres always the first time right?
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What kind of flour?
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I tried this recipe last night. The cake was not as moist as I thought it would be. Perhaps a cake flour would be better or substitute water for milk.
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Rasa Malaysia replied:
It’s been a while since I make this cake. I do remember it is a little dry. I didn’t mind it much since I enjoyed it with a cup of 3-in-1 mixed instant coffee :) I will try your suggestions next time.
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Anybody know how to make bean curds?????
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