Rice Flour Orange Chiffon Cake (香橙米粉戚风蛋糕)

Sunkist Orange is on sale at NTUC and immediately orange chiffon came into my mind. Haha. My family love my orange chiffon cake alot. I added some rice flour into the cake flour to make it moist,fluffy and bouncy. I love the texture alot. The sweetness for the cake is just nice and coupled with the citrus taste.... Delicious.  

Recipe (8 inch)

Egg Yolk - 5
Caster Sugar - 20g
Canola oil - 45ml
Cointreau - 2 tsp

Orange Juice - 105ml

Orange Zest - From 2 big oranges 
Flour - 100g cake flour and 30g rice flour
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder - 1 tsp (Optional)

Egg White - 6
Cream of Tar Tar - 1/2 tsp (Optional)
Caster Sugar - 80g

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 degree.
• Sieve all dry ingredients (flour mixture) in a bowl and put aside.
• Whisk egg yolk and sugar (20g) together till light lemon colour.
• Add oil , orange zest, orange juice and cointreau and mix well.
• Lastly add dry ingredient (flour mixture) and whisk or fold till there is no visible flour.
• Use electric whisk and whisk egg white till medium stiff peak (peak must droop slightly) so as to incorporate easily into the egg yolk batter.
• Transfer 1/3 of meringue into egg yolk batter and use a whisk (I prefer) to fold it so as to lighten the egg yolk batter.
• Transfer another 1/3 meringue into egg yolk batter and lightly fold it with a spatula or whisk to combine into the batter.
• Lastly transfer the last 1/3 meringue and use a whisk or spatula to fold till no meringue clump / white spot is visible.
• BANG the batter bowl twice at the countertop to break air bubble.
• Pour the batter from a height of 20cm to 30cm  slowly into the chiffon tin.
• Use 2 hands and lightly shake the chiffon tin on the countertop to level the batter. (Do not bang it as you will introduce more air into it).
• Use a skewer and go around the batter twice to break air bubble.
• Bake it at 150 degree for 50 min. (I prefer using low temp to bake as I like my chiffon top to be nicely domed and not crack badly.)
• Do a skewer test to see whether is the cake ready.
• Enjoy with a cuppa.