Horlicks Layer Cake/Kek Lapis Horlick

Horlicks Layer Cake

Ok!My first attempt of making kek lapis using my new oven didn't turned out well.
.Why? It was too dry because I've forgotten to put in the condensed milk.But,can you believe it?The children ate it all saying it was nice.See the picture below of the dry cake.

Last night,I try making my Horlicks Layer Cake again and this time,I made sure to add on everything and the cake turned out nice.It was even more nice on the next morning and I ate it for breakfast.My kids bring it to school.

I grill for about three hours plus.The hours was shorter compare to the first dry cake which took five hours to finished grilling.The reason was because I don't know how to use the new oven yet.I kept adjusting the temperature and the fan.

The recipe was given by a friend of mine.

RECIPE:

10 eggs

450g butter

190g castor sugar

240g flour(Hong Kong flour)

200g horlicks

1 can condensed milk(small can,388g)

METHOD:

Beat butter and castor sugar till creamy and fluffy.Add eggs one by one,beating till well-combined.

Add in milk.Add in flour and horlicks.(mix together first)Fold in 3 batches.Mix thoroughly till well-combined.

Scoop up one small ladle of the batter into a 7" cake tin and grill the cake at 200°C till you see brown colour.(my oven took 10 minutes to grill one piece).Take out from oven and press with a metal flattener to get rid of lumps.Repeat for every layer.Pour in the second layer and spread evenly again tilting the pan.Repeat grilling layer after layer and flattening.When done,cool on a wire rack.

In the original recipe,sugar was 220g but I lessen it to 190g.

My New Oven

I bought a new oven  today.I'm so excited about my new oven.My craze for making kek lapis goes
on............My intention of buying this new oven is to make kek lapis.I didn't know that this type of oven exist.It is a convection oven with a turbo fan and has a top,bottom and both top and bottom heating.My other old oven is a conventional oven that I have been using for years.At that time,I don't understand what the author of the recipe meant" by top grilling only".Somehow,I thought maybe they said using the bbq equipment for grilling.Ha!Ha!Now,I understood.So,I bought this oven loh!

You see,the thought of buying electric oven never come to my mind.The thought of paying too much electrical bills scared me.The conventional oven is enough to bake a perfect cake anytime.any day,above all can roast a chicken, but no to a kek lapis.Before that,I try to make kek lapis using the conventional oven but it got burnt baking layer by layer.By the time the layers were finished,the bottom of the caked burnt like charcoal and has to be thrown away.

Kek Lapis can either be grill or steamed.I often make the steamed type.It was easier,less time and colourful,whereas,I've heard grilling layers by layers took a longer process like three to four hours.Whether I can make it or not,I will tell you all in my next blog.So,wait!He!He!