Your oven is broken. But you still want to bake for your guests. For example cake. You don’t just buy a new oven. Or there is no room for an oven in your kitchen. Not without radically renovating the kitchen. And all for a cake. A built-in oven may be an option. But you couldn’t have arranged that in a day. Fortunately, you can also bake a less traditional ‘cake’, a bambu cake. You can serve surprising cakes to your guests, without an oven, but with the refrigerator, according to a simple recipe. With a ‘dough’ of sponge cake and a special taste: a bambu cake. Or the same cake, but with cocoa or coffee flavor!
- What ingredients do you need to bake a bambu cake?
- Which baking materials do you need?
- Preparation method
- To serve
- Conclusion
What ingredients do you need to bake a bambu cake?
- an egg
- two tablespoons of honey (NB: the taste of the honey also determines the taste of the cake!)
- 125 grams (cream) butter
- a roll of whole wheat biscuit
- three level tablespoons of bambu
Environmentally friendly baking
If you would like to work in an environmentally friendly way, buy the organic variants of these ingredients and be very economical with aluminum foil. If you don’t want to use aluminum foil, use a flexible plastic mold or baking paper.
Know what you are eating? An explanation of some of the ingredients used.
Bambu
Bambu is also called “acorn coffee” mentioned. Bambu derives this name from the fact that the mixture contains acorns. And the fact that you can make a brown, warm drink from bambu. This drink is used as a coffee substitute for people who do not want to consume caffeine. By the way, bambu doesn’t taste like coffee at all! It is a soluble mixture of chicory, figs, wheat, malted barley and acorns. Bambu has nothing at all with ?? bamboo ?? to make! You can buy it at organic shops, at ?? De Tuinen ?? or order via the internet at www.avogel.nl. If you don’t know yet whether you like this flavor, buy a small amount. It is for sale per 100 grams.
An alternative to Bambu is ‘Pacha’. Various coffee substitutes from this brand are also based on pure natural ingredients such as grains, nuts and chicory. Can be ordered through the online pharmacy.
Chicory
There is chicory in Bambu. Chicory is a plant that is related to our endive plant. It grows wild in the Netherlands and Belgium along roadsides and dikes. Special varieties of the chicory plant are grown because the harvest is greater. It concerns the roots of the plant, which in the cultivated varieties are larger and better formed. The roots are dried and ground and used in bambu.
Malted barley
Malted barley is barley that has been allowed to germinate, then dried and ground.
Which baking materials do you need?
- a baking tin or a hard plastic tray (the size of the baking tin depends on the amount of ‘batter’, especially the size of the roll of biscuits so choose the shape after you have made the batter)
- a piece of aluminum foil
- a whisk
Preparation method
- Before baking, prepare all the necessary ingredients and baking materials
- Beat the egg in a bowl and mix it with the honey
- Melt the butter over low heat and add it to the mixture in the bowl
- Crumble the biscuits by hand until they are fine
- Little by little, add the crumbs to the mixture and make sure that the mixture remains smooth
- Cover the baking pan with the aluminum foil or baking paper
- Fill the baking pan with the batter. or ?? dough ?? and press it
- If necessary, press some pieces of fig or almonds on the dough to decorate
- Have the ?? cake ?? now stiffen in the refrigerator for several hours
To serve
- When the cake has set, carefully remove it from the mold
- You cut it into slices as you would with regular cake (note: Bambucake is much firmer and more nutritious than normal cake because there is no air in this cake, so choose modest slices)
- Leave the cake in the kitchen for a while to warm up
- Finally, serve the cake with some whipped cream
Conclusion
If you’ve got the hang of it, you can ‘bake’ a chocolate cake or a coffee cake in the same way, in addition to the bamboo cake, without an oven.