Eggs 4 Milk 40g
Corn oil 40g Cake flour 55 grams
Fine sugar 65 grams Red Velvet Liquid 5 grams
Light cream 300+100g Fine sugar 40g
How to make Chinese butter cake Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 1

Step 1

Mix corn oil + milk evenly, sift the low-gluten flour into the milk paste and mix well Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 2

Step 2

Add egg yolk and mix well. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 3

Step 3

Add red velvet liquid to make it bright red. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 4

Step 4

Whip egg white + fine sugar + a few drops of lemon juice into short peaks. First, take 1/3 of the meringue and egg yolk paste and mix evenly. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 5

Step 5

Pour into the original meringue and mix evenly. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 6

Step 6

Pour it into a gold plate and spread it flat, shake out the bubbles, preheat the oven to 150 degrees, put the baking sheet into the middle and lower rack of the oven, and bake for 30 minutes. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 7

Step 7

Immediately after taking it out of the oven, unmold it, tear off the oilcloth, and you will have a super nice towel surface. Use the box to measure the size and cut out the cake slices.Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 8

Step 8

Put 300 grams of whipping cream + 30 grams of fine sugar into the box, put one layer of cake and one layer of whipped cream into the box, and finally smooth it out with butter. Illustration of how to make Chinese butter cake 9

Step 9

Finally, beat with 100g + 10g fine sugar, use red food coloring to make it bright red, put it into a piping bag, draw a Chinese knot pattern on the box cake, and the Chinese knot cake is ready! Chinese Butter Cake Cooking Tips