My kitchen is currently under repair and the oven is not accessible. I have been cooking in a bathroom using a small Induction hob. But, I can still make cakes using a steamer. Then I realised that my rice cooker has ‘Cake’ setting, which I have never used. I tried to make my hard-to-fail ‘Basic Sponge Cake’ in the rice cooker, and it was ridiculously easy.


Makes

I used my 10 cup capacity rice cooker which inner pot is 20cm in diameter.

Ingredients

3 Eggs *separated yolks and whites
90g (100ml) Caster Sugar
90g (150ml) Self-Raising Flour
20g Butter *melted
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Method
  1. Line the base of rice cooker’s inner pot with baking paper. *Note: If your inner pot is in a good state, baking paper would be unnecessary.
  2. Whisk Egg Whites in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Add Caster Sugar gradually, whisking for a few minutes until firm peaks form. Then add Egg Yolks and whisk until well combined.
    *Note: You can beat Egg Whites, Yolks and Sugar all together until very thick.
  3. Gradually sift Flour over the egg mixture while folding in with a large spoon, then add melted Butter and Vanilla, mix until just combined. Pour the mixture into the prepared rice cooker’s inner pot and press ‘Start’ button at ‘Cake’ setting.
  4. Turn out on a wire rack. Carefully peel away baking paper, then leave to cool.
  5. *Note: Top of the cake cannot be browned, but the cake looks fine upside-down. It took 40 minutes for my rice cooker to cook, but I could have taken it out a little bit earlier. This is absolutely the easiest & energy-efficient way to cook a sponge cake. You even don’t need a cake tin. Once you decorate it with cream or frosting, very few people would notice the cake is cooked in the rice cooker.