Steam Combi Recipe: Mandarin Cake

Adding steam to your baking results in a very even cook and more rise. The steam keeps the top surface of the batter moist, preventing it from forming a crust too early, which aids in the better rise, and a result with less chance of peaking and cracking

METHOD

1. Place 3 mandarins (skin on and stalk removed) in a saucepan and cover with water.
2. Bring to boil and simmer for 30 minutes 
3. Drain, and place in food processor (skin on) with butter and oil and blend well
4. In a kitchen mixer, beat 3 eggs with the sugar until light and frothy.
5. Stir in Mandarin mixture and mix.
6. Sift in dry ingredients and fold together, making sure you mix all pockets of flour
7. Set your oven to hot air +steam .
   If you have an Asko Steam combi you can set a staged cook programme
   For  Asko Elements ovens follow these instructions: 

• Choose Steam Combi, level 1 160C 15 minutes.
• Press the Plus button, choose fast preheatP
• Press the plus button again and choose Stage cooking
• Stage 2: Bottom heat 160C 30 minutes. 

(For other brands- Set oven to Hot Air/Circulaire with steam 25% . Cook for 15 minutes then  change function to bottom heat only and )cook for remaining 30 minutes)

1. Place cake one shelf from bottom when oven gets up to temperature  
2. While the cake is cooking , cook mandarin juice from remaining 2 mandarins  and sugar in a saucepan until syrupy
3. Pour syrup over cake immediately it is removed from the oven
4. Dust with Icing sugar as desired.