Castella Pudding Cake (カステラプリン)

Delicate and cute little Castella Pudding Cakes are the perfect hybrid of two Japanese sweets: castella sponge cake and custard pudding. The two sweets pair perfectly together along with the smooth caramel sauce to create a unique and delicious dessert.

What is Castella Pudding Cake?

Castella pudding is a Japanese hybrid sweet. It is Castella cake on top of Japanese custard pudding(purin) with caramel sauce at the bottom baked all together in a little cup. It seemed to become a popular sweet to bake at home in 2019. I always wanted to try and finally I can share the recipe.

Why you will love this Catella Pudding Cake

All ingredients are readily available anywhere in the world - it does not require any difficult to get oriental ingredients.You can taste two delicious Japanese sweets in one! - airy fluffy Japanese castella cake and silky smooth Japanese custard pudding.Eye-pleasing cute dessert and delicious both warm or chilled.

Ingredients

Caramel sauce- sugar and water. To get the best result, I recommend to use granulated sugar. Custard pudding - eggs, milk, and sugarCastella cake - egg, sugar, honey and flour. Usually castella cake(Kasutera) is made with bread flour, or bread flour and all purpose flour combined for spongy texture. However we only need a little amount of batter and flour. Only 3 tbsp(30g) is needed, so just use all purpose flour.

And also you need heat proof glass cups(150ml each)

How to Make Castella Pudding?

1. Make caramel sauce and pour it into 4 cups and let them set
2. Combine custard pudding ingredients
3. Start to preheat the oven
4. Make Castella cake batter
5. Pour the custard pudding mixture in on top of caramel sauce
6. Top with castella cake batter over the custard pudding mixture
7. Bake in hot water bath in the preheated oven for 40 minutes
8. Serve as warm dessert or chill for later

Tips & Tricks

• Strain the custard base using a sieve or strainer to get silky smooth texture of pudding
• Tap the heat proof glass cups with a spoon or fork after the cake is removed from the oven to avoid the cake sinking.

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