Japan Osaka June 2014 Trip (Nara-second day)

The conference starts early. There are city buses that we can take from hotel to the conference venue. 

Above pictures are the venue of my conference. Yes, it's beautiful. A lot of deer are around the area. During break and lunch time, we can actually walk around the park and take picture with deer.:) 

Everyday they provide our lunch. It's a bento box lunch, which is not really good. 

So, for dinner we usually try to find better food. At that time, I found this machine is interesting. We ordered our food from the machine which is placed outside the restaurant, then we get in to the restaurant. But, I believe, we have this also now in Singapore.

Pandan Cake

Making Two pans of 6" cake

Ingredients:

133g cake flour

½ tsp salt

 

6 egg yolks

48g fresh milk

72g vegetable oil

1 teaspoon pandan flavored

 

6 egg white

72g caster sugar

½ tsp corn flour

Procedure:

1. Beat egg yolks and fresh milk

2. Add vegetable oil, salt and pandan flavored paste

3. Sieve flour and mix with the egg yolk mixture. Preheat oven to 170 celcius. 

4. Beat egg white, sugar and corn flour using electric handmixer until it is hard and stiff. 

5. Fold in 1/3 of the egg white to egg yolk mixture. Fold in the rest of egg white.

6. Pour half mixture to each pan. 

7. Place both pan on a bigger tray, and add hot water. Steam baked the cake in the oven for 30 minutes, then another 30 minutes at 150 celcius. 

Buttercream:

4 egg white

100g sugar

A pinch of salt

Few drop of green pandan flavored paste

200g butter

Combine egg white and sugar in a heatproof bowl, and place it over a pan of simmering water. Beat the egg white, until sugar dissolves and stiff peaks (temperature about 60 celcius). 

Let the egg white's temperature reaches at about 30-35 celcius then add in butter cube gradually. Beat until the mixture is well incorporated. Add salt and pandan flavored.