Recipe: Tasty Yema Cake

Yema Cake. Yema Cake made of fluffy sponge or chiffon cake with Yema frosting. Sinfully delicious, this Filipino cake is perfect as a dessert or anytime snack treat. Yema Cake is a Filipino chiffon cake with a custard frosting known as yema which is a custard-like combination of milk and egg yolks.

Modern Filipino desserts are known for being milky and sweet. Let the chiffon cakes cool while you cook a creamy custard filling flavored with sweetened condensed milk. Then spread the hot filling in between the cakes and frost the top and sides. You can have Yema Cake using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Yema Cake

1. It's of Chiffon (dry).
2. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of cake flour or all purpose flour.
3. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
6. Prepare of Chiffon (wet).
7. It's 4 of egg yolk.
8. It's 1/4 cup of oil.
9. Prepare 1/4 cup of water.
10. It's 1/4 cup of pineapple juice.
11. It's of Meringue.
12. You need 4 of egg whites.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of cream of tartar.
14. Prepare 1/4 cup of sugar.
15. Prepare of Yema frosting.
16. Prepare 1 can of condensed milk.
17. It's 1 can of evaporated milk.
18. Prepare 3 of egg yolks.
19. It's 1 tbsp of vanilla.
20. It's 1 tbsp of cornstarch.
21. Prepare of Toppings.
22. It's of Grated cheese.

To make the icing, open two cans of condensed milk and pour it over a pan. Add in egg yolks and cook over low heat. Yema Cake Recipe is a great treat for everyone and is best served after or in between meals. With this, your family will love it and you can just have it every day.

Yema Cake instructions

1. Mix dry ingredients, set aside..
2. Mix the wet ingredients and add to the dry ingredients and mix well and set aside..
3. Beat the egg whites untill frothy then add the cream of tartar and gradually add the sugar. Beat until soft peak and add to the chiffon batter..
4. Pour the batter into 5 llanera. Divide it equally. Bake for 20 mins on 200-250 F or 95-121 C. If steam low heat for 20 minutes.
5. Yema frosting. In a pan mix all the ingredients. Turn on fire to low heat stir until the mixture is thick. Turn off the heat and let cool..
6. Assemble the cake and the frosting. Top it with cheese..

Although the Yema Cake is light in texture, it still has a rich Milky flavor because of the Yema Frosting on top. If you love this delight, then bake one since it is just so easy. Yema Cake is a type of chiffon or sponge cake infused with cream cheese then flavoured with yema, a type of milk custard candy popular in the Philippines. Yema Cake Yema Cakes have been gaining popularity over the recent years. I've seen several pasalubong stores selling these particularly in the South Luzon region.