Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, easy castella cake (poundcake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Easy Castella Cake (poundcake) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy castella cake (poundcake) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
- Take 2/3 C (100 g) cake flour
- Take 2/3 C (100 g) unsalted butter
- Prepare 2/3 C (100 g) milk
- Prepare 4-6 egg yolks
- Make ready 4-6 egg whites
- Get 2/3 C (100 g) organic sugar
- Prepare 1-2 tsp Dominican style vanilla*
- Make ready Dominican vanilla
- Make ready Can be found in the Caribbean section in your supermarket
Steps to make Easy Castella Cake (poundcake):
- Separate egg yolks from the whites and place them both in separate bowls. Set aside.
- In a bowl, sift the cake flour. Also set aside. In a small pot place butter and milk and let it melt over medium heat stirring occasionally. Once you see a few bubbles on the sides turn off. Pour this over the cake flour (while warm) and whisk until smooth.
- Whisk egg whites and sugar until a smooth meringue is form. Soft peaks is a good sign of how far to whisk it. After doing this, combine the meringue with the cake batter and mix together well.
- Pre-heat oven to a low 305 F
- In a baking pan (square is preferred) line it with wax paper (baking paper) on all sides. This will help the cake not stick to the pan and will make it easy to take out. Tap pan gently ontop of a kitchen towel to get air bubbles out. Since this is a pound cake made of mostly yolks, you will need to place the pan in a shallow baking tray and do a marybain (water bath) which means you have to place the pan in the tray and pour hot water gently to cover up to half way of the pan.
- Once you do this step, place the cake batter into the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes. Insert a tooth pick around 50 minute mark to see if it comes out clean.
- Tip: you can also bake this in your rice/slow cooker!!! Instead of a pan, oil your rice pot and pour batter. Cook it for 50 minutes. If it is still too light and a bit "wet" continue cooking for ten more minutes. Here is the third try this time in the rice cooker.
Discover How to Improve Your Mood with Food
A lot of us have been trained to believe that comfort foods are bad and should be avoided. Sometimes, if your comfort food is made of candy or other junk foods, this can be true. Other times, however, comfort foods can be totally healthy and it’s good for you to eat them. There are some foods that actually can improve your moods when you eat them. When you are feeling a little down and are in need of an emotional boost, try a few of these.
Eggs, you may be surprised to learn, are great at battling depression. Just be sure that you do not throw out the yolk. The egg yolk is the part of the egg that is the most important in terms of helping raise your mood. Eggs, the egg yolk especially, are high in B vitamins. B vitamins can truly help you raise your mood. This is because they help in bettering the function of your neural transmitters, the parts of your brain that affect your mood. Eat an egg and feel happier!
Make several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Peanuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, and so on are all great for helping to raise your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have lots of magnesium which boosts your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is called the “feel good” substance that our body produces and it tells your brain how you should be feeling at all times. The more of this chemical in your brain, the happier you’ll feel. Not just that but nuts, particularly, are a terrific source of protein.
Cold water fish are excellent for eating if you want to beat back depression. Cold water fish including tuna, trout and wild salmon are high in DHA and omega-3 fatty acids. These are two substances that increase the quality and function of the gray matter in your brain. It’s true: chomping on a tuna fish sandwich can basically help you overcome depression.
Grains can be wonderful for driving away a bad mood. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all truly great for helping raise your happiness levels. They help you feel full too which can actually help to make your mood better. Feeling famished can truly bring you down! The reason these grains are so great for your mood is that they are not hard for your stomach to digest. They are easier to digest than other foods which helps bring up your blood sugar levels and that, in turn, raises your mood.
Your mood could actually be helped by green tea. You were sure green tea had to be included in this article, right? Green tea is chock-full of an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies prove that this specific amino acid can basically induce brain waves. This helps better your mental focus while calming the rest of your body. You likely already knew it is not difficult to get healthy when you consume green tea. Now you are well aware that green tea helps you to elevate your moods also!
As you can see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you wish to feel better! Try several of these instead!
