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Castella cake, simply referred to as castella, is an impossibly airy and light Japanese sponge cake flavored with honey. It’s humble (never decorated, always loaf-shaped) and so simple (just bread flour, eggs, sugar, honey and a dash of milk), yet I only ate it for special occasions growing up–often packed in a super fancy giftbox.
This castella is ideal for serving during afternoon tea, or for dessert. In a metal bowl, crack the eggs, add the sugar and beat with an electric mixer over boiling water in a double boiler fashion on high speed for 6 minutes. The volume of the beaten eggs will increase by about 4 times.
For a matcha castella sponge cake, you’ll need eggs, sugar, flour, milk, honey, and matcha green tea powder. For chocolate, you’ll need sugar, flour, honey, eggs, and cocoa powder. There are other flavors and kinds of castella cake too, including brown sugar and baby castella.
) Drawing some lines on the surface of the batter with a wooden skewer helps to break the smaller bubbles. Place the castella on the lower rack of the oven. Bake at 160°C/320°F uncovered for about 50 minutes . The actual baking time depends on many factors, notably the size of the castella and the position of the heating element.
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