Apr
28
2015

Rice Cooker Cakes: Steamed Chocolate Banana Cake

Darling bought me a new toy. The rice cooker that I have been using to cook porridge for Ethan and now Ayden has finally died so he bought me a new one. It comes with a CAKE function so today I excitedly tried to bake a cake using it as my oven at home is rendered unusable for ages.

For a mother of two, you’d think that I would have everything in my kitchen but the truth is, I don’t. I don’t even have a working kitchen scale so for today’s recipe of a super simple rice cooker steamed chocolate banana cake, all the measurements are taken using this:

A cup. The same cup I used to measure rice.

Ingredients:

1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup sugar
50 g butter
1 egg (lightly beaten)
2 teaspoon cocoa powder diluted in 60ml water
3/4 cup mashed banana

Usually a block of butter comes in 250g so I used 1/5 of it to make 50g. See. Who says we can’t make a cake without using a kitchen scale :P

My little helper woke up from his nap just in time to help me mash the bananas.

Haha! Hopefully he doesn’t finish the mashed banana before I manage to get them into the rice cooker!

The method is extremely easy. We don’t even need to use a mixer.

All we need to do is mix the butter and sugar in a bowl. Add in flour. Mix. Add egg, cocoa solution and mashed banana. Mix.

Pour the batter into your rice cooker pot. Oh before that! Remember to grease the pot first! Place it in the rice cooker and cook on CAKE function for 40 minutes.

This is how it looks like after 40 minutes. Cool it slightly before removing it from pot.

My super simple yet delicious steamed moist chocolate banana cake chilling on a rack.

Somebody can’t wait to get his hands on those cakes already.

Om nom nom.

So my chocolate banana cake ended up very similar to ma lai koh (Chinese steamed cake) instead of those oven-baked cakes but it’s okay because it is just as yummy and Ayden loves it more this way. This is after all my first try. Will experiment with more recipes and see what I’ll end up with. I have a feeling I’ll be using this rice cooker more for baking and steaming instead of cooking rice. Haha!

Tags: rice cooker bakes, Rice Cooker Cakes

About the Author: Merryn Tan

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suituapui April 28, 2015 at 6:11 am

Maybe I should get one too. Yet to try baking a cake using an oven, so scared it will turn out disastrous.

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  Merryn April 28, 2015 at 2:12 pm
  
  But if you have an oven wont it be better to use it? I have an oven, but each time I switch it on the entire house will have power trip :(
  
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CL (RealGunners) April 28, 2015 at 9:42 am

Your batter seems a bit too wet, like how my first few cake batters were. How come they manage to turn into a proper cake?? Why???? >.<

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  Merryn April 28, 2015 at 2:11 pm
  
  Hahahaha. Coz it is baked by Submerryn and not Realgunner :P
  
  Wait lah. I’m eager to experiment with more recipes so that it’s your turn to be green with envy :D
  
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Hayley April 28, 2015 at 9:44 am

Nowadays memang convenient to bake/cook, since all those eletronic appliances are getting high tech!

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  Merryn April 28, 2015 at 2:10 pm
  
  Technology is making it much easier for us mommies ;D
  
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Choi Yen April 28, 2015 at 12:13 pm

I’ve made this using my old rice cooker without bake cake function. The upper part of the cake still moist as the button jump to keep warm before the cake is thoroughly cooked. :(

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  Merryn April 28, 2015 at 2:07 pm
  
  I heard if you used normal rice cooker, you’ll have to press the cook function again for the cake to be done nicely.
  
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Rose April 28, 2015 at 2:10 pm

Nice buy.

I contemplating on whether to get those rice cooker with baking function but in the end I decided not too since I do not bake. Haha.

Lovely bake.

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  Merryn April 30, 2015 at 1:33 am
  
  I actually love baking. I used to bake a lot of cookies but since my oven kaput-ed I had to stop :(
  
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mun April 29, 2015 at 11:42 pm

Ayden is so young but can help you in the kitchen to cook already. Really good! Steamed cake is a better option than baked cakes I believe. Cake looks really tasty. I am so hungry now looking at your cake.

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  Merryn April 30, 2015 at 1:34 am
  
  It’s one way to keep Ayden occupied. Hehe. I like this steamed cake. I tried baking chocolate cake but it was a complete failure. Will have to try again with other recipe some other day.
  
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I am a mother to two boys; Ethan and Ayden and a wife to Darling William. I'm a stay at home mum who blogs to break the monotony of life and to avoid feeling jaded. Would love to get to know all the Super Mommies and Daddies and Babies or Singles out there with the hope that we can learn more from each other. Most of all, I am a happy person, and I hope YOU are too.