November 6, 2010 - 9:14pm
steamed chocolate cake
i read of the different steamed bread pudding but they dont fit the bill. what im looking for (which i ate in an overseas school at mealtime) is a steamed chocolate cake and i think they put it in a can or some other round long cylinder and then cut them into slices and poured a chocolate sauce over it. the cake was moist and not made from pieces of bread. i think it was also steamed (like maybe the can was in a water bath in the oven? im guessing cause i never saw it made but i know for sure i would love to make it for my family. does anyone have a clue what im looking for? thanks for your input
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I once made a steamed chocolate cake on Passover, as I didn't have a kosher oven.
As far as I remember, I just beat 4 eggs with 4 oz sugar, then a tbsp oil, then folded in 3 oz potato flour and 1 oz cocoa, sifted. You can use ordinary flour of course.
This I put in an oiled container, covered loosely with greaseproof paper, and then in the top of a steamer, for about 40 mins.
It rose up and came out very moist.
thanks to all of you who took the time to reply and submit links to this recipe. checked them all and they all look delicious. hope you all try it as well as im still savoring the flavor and that was many a decade ago. hope these will live up to my tastebuds. thanks again to all
I do hope you'll report back here with your results, and let us know how complicated it turned out to be. I am not familiar with this particular treat but it has definitely peaked my interest!!
Boy what a memory from that,,,,, I remember having chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce as part of our school dinner way back in the 40s, about '44 i think, in England, and WW11 was on. It was always served in soup plates ant when the so called empty plates were gathered at the end of the table it all sqished out between the plates..
Looking back I expect it was quite nice, especially when food was so short this was a treat,,,,,or should have been.
Chocolate pudding and chocolate sauce always reminds me of school dinners
Sorry it's not what you wanted to hear,,,, qahtan
it might not be the recipe you supplied but you came quite close to the memories. and yep it was in england in the '60s and for some reason im nostalgic and would love to serve it to my family. i came across a recipe in a book but the cake turned out to be more cakey than steamed although the chocolate sauce was quite good. its the cake im hankering after. so please, anyone out there, lets hear it. thanks.
qahtan - that was the first thought that came to me too - a pudding for English school dinners in the '40s. Quite tasty. After a first course of leek dumpling, mashed potatoes and beetroot!
And that recipe was still a strong school favourite as late as the 1970's when I was at school in England I imagine it was amore basic version of this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolatesteamedpudd_71225
basically a traditional chocolate steam pudding probably cooked in roll shape for easier cutting for the dinner ladies! I remember at senior school we had it in big slabs instead.. try it and see if its the same thing!
thanks for posting the link to the recipe. i read it and i guess ill give it a try . its the only way to see if it comes close. btw what is caster sugar? and is it ok to just use regular sugar?
Caster sugar is the same as superfine sugar. You can probably use regular sugar, but it doesn't dissolve as easily, so you may get some graininess.
brad
for fudgy brownies, I might come out with something similar. I might bake it floating at low temp (150°C) in a hot water bath in a half round butter greased ribbed cake pan. :)
Castor sugar is fine white table sugar.
see these. in asia, many desserts are steamed
http://thelittleteochew.blogspot.com/2009/07/steamed-moist-chocolate-cake-improved.html
http://pengskitchen.blogspot.com/2009/05/steamed-moist-chocolate-cake.html
or a more English pudding
http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/2010/08/steamed-chocolate-pudding.html#more