Pandan Fudge Cake

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g plain flour, sifted
• 100 g oil
• 1/2 teaspoon pandan spice essence
• green food coloring
• 1/2 liter water
• 180 g sugar
• 50 g butter
• 2 teaspoons agar, powder
• 150 ml water
• 250 ml coconut milk
• 80 g green bean flour or 80 g mung bean flour
• 2 teaspoons pandan spice essence
• 1/2 teaspoon coconut essence
• green food coloring
• desiccated coconut

Recipe

• 1 for cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 320 farenheit. grease and line a 8inch cake tin.
• 3 with electric mixer on high, whisk eggs, yolk, sugar and pandan paste for about 15 minutes till tripled in volume and silky in texture.
• 4 fold in sifted flour very very gently! after its incorporated, fold in oil. make sure the oil has been mixed thoroughly, and that it hasn't sunk to the bottom.
• 5 pour batter into cake tin very gently.
• 6 bake for 35 minutes. remove from oven, cool in tin for 15 minutes, and turn over onto a cake rack to cool thoroughly.
• 7 for filling:.
• 8 while cake is cooling, make filling.
• 9 combine the 1/2 litre water, sugar, agar powder and butter in a pan. bring to a rolling boil. reduce heat to low.
• 10 meanwhile, in another bowl, combine 150ml water, coconut milk, mung bean flour, pandan paste and coconut essence. mix well and then add this mix into the heated mix on the stove top.
• 11 with a whisk, stir non stop until it thickens (make sure its well thickened or it wont set!). it should be a bit thicker than pastry cream. remove from heat and cool for 5- 10 minutes but dont let it set!
• 12 assembly:.
• 13 cut cake into 3 layers. place one layer in a 9 inch cake ring or 9 inch springform pan (without the base!.
• 14 top it with 1/2 of the filling, making sure the filling goes into the 1 inch space around the cake.
• 15 continue stacking until all 3 cake layers are used. with the remaining 1/3 of the filling, pour it on the cake, letting it flow into the 1 inch space at the side. refrigerate for 2 hours.
• 16 lift cake ring slowly, and dust the whole cake with dessicated coconut.