Steamed egg cake

Steamed egg cake. — Photo: JOANNE TEO

A simple four-ingredient cake based on eggs.

Western cakes are quite delicious but they take more time and effort, as they involve putting together a number of ingredients. Also, baking a cake can be finicky sometimes, especially if you’re a novice. You have to have a “relationship” with your oven and know what temperature it works best at, which shelf handles cakes better, etc. Not all ovens are equal, though in theory they do the same job. There’s also a method to the way the ingredients are put into the mixture, as you need to know when to add which ingredient, otherwise your cake will end up too dense, or worse, not rise at all! Experienced bakers will know what I mean!