Sun Cake - Light & Easy Nutella Cotton Cake 太阳蛋糕－Nutella 棉花蛋糕

I baked this a day after I baked the Sun Bread for my son. Here's how the Sun Bread look like...

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On that night before bedtime, he thanked me for making this Sun Bread for him that he really likes a lot. And, he asked me if I can make a Sun Cake for him. 

Before I say anything, he told me it's his pug (the plush toy in the picture)  birthday the next day, his pug wants a chocolate cake on his birthday. 

Well, although his toys always celebrate birthday, but I don't always bake a real cake to 'play pretend' birthday celebration with him. This time, I did it because he has been good boy lately, so this is more like a reward/ encouragement to him. On that night, I drew a sun picture and hubby helped me to cut and make a sun stencil, specially for this Sun Cake ;)

The weather is hot lately so I don't want to bake dark chocolate cake for him. I bake this moist and soft cotton cake with a mild chocolate flavour from the Nutella. Small one, only 4 eggs, just nice for both of us. Love this! 

Ingredients: 6" Cake Pan


(A)

35g Salted Butter

50g Hong Kong Flour

3 Egg Yolks

1 Whole Egg

50g Nutella


(B)

3 Egg White

40g Castor Sugar

1/2 tsp Lemon Juice

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Method:

1. Get all the ingredients ready.

2. This step, must act FAST..... Melt butter in a saucepan. When it's melted, remove from heat and stir in flour, mix well. Set aside and let it cool. 

3. Meanwhile preheat oven 170'C. Stir egg yolks, 1 egg and Nutella together. Add in (2) and mix until well combined.

4. Use a stand mixer, whisk egg whites and lemon juice until frothy, add sugar gradually. Continue to whisk until stiff peak.

5. Fold the egg white mixture into egg yolk mixture in 3 batches until there's no streak of egg white. 

6. Pour the batter in a lined baking pan. Tap 2-3 times on the table top to release trapped air. 

7. Place the baking pan in a larger baking pan. Fill up some hot water in the larger pan (about 1/3), bake in a preheated oven 170'C for 35 minutes, reduce to 150'C for 10-15 minutes. 

8. Once it's ready, invert, remove the baking paper and let it cool on the rack.