Ma lai go (1st attempt)

In Hong Kong style dim sum restaurants, there is a dessert called Ma Lai Go,  (马拉糕), literally meaning Malaysian cake, though I've never seen it in Malaysia or Singapore (perhaps ma lai go is related to "pandan cake"). Ma lai go is basically a type of steamed sponge cake and is not too sweet. Since I'd been investigating sponge cakes lately, I decided to check it out at wiki.

Recipe: Hong Kong ma lai go


Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup cake flour  (50g)
- 1/2 teaspoon (tp) baking powder
- 2 tp custard powder or vanilla pudding mix (10g)
- 1 egg
- 1.76 oz brown sugar (50g)
- 1 tablespoon (TB) butter (15g)
- 2 TB evaporated milk


Procedure:
1. Melt butter and set aside.
2. Sieve brown sugar to remove crumbs. Then beat with egg using electrical egg beater, until mixture foams and double to triple its volume. I use power switch 1 and it takes 30 minutes.

3. Mix flour, baking powder, custard powder or pudding mix thoroughly. Then fold in to egg mixture. Then add milk and butter.
4. Steam in bamboo steamer for 30-40 minutes.

I did some study on custard powder and found out that it's basically a mixture of cornstarch, sugar and flavoring. So I'm going to replace the custard powder with cornstarch next time.