What is Custard Powder? Uses Of Custard Powder

Whether you are a professional baker or just starting out with baking, you probably have heard about custard dough. So, do you understand what custard powder is and how it works? This article, Takyfood will work with you to learn about this kind of powder!

Banana bread, potato chips, gato cake, custard egg cake are all custard cakes in raw materials. Custard flour has become a popular flour in baking that bakers must understand about it in order to make more delicious cakes. Are you a "new chicken" or a connoisseur of baking? Are you looking for the best knowledge about this custard powder to help your baking? So don't skip this article by Taky. In this article, Takyfood will share all its insights on this powder so you get the most overview about it. Discover Takyfood together!

Custard powder - ingredients that make the cake delicious

What is custard powder?

Custard flour, in simple terms, is an auxiliary flour in baking. To make custard powder, people often mix cornstarch with a little fat cream, vanilla powder, flavorings and egg flavor. This makes custard flour has a special flavor and when used in cakes, it always gives perfect results for the delicious taste of the cakes.

Custard flour is often called with many different names such as egg powder, lion powder or cake filling dough. The most common custard powder we currently use is the "lion" custard. The structure of custard dough when used is usually quite flexible, dense and baked, this is also the cream of many cakes!

What is custard powder for?

Briefly speaking, custard flour has 2 main uses in baking, which is used to mix into batter or filler. With its characteristic flavor, custard powder is often used as a raw material to overwhelm the fishy taste of eggs in some cakes and create a delicious, attractive flavor.

- Mix into flour: Custard custard is often mixed with ingredients to make cakes of some cakes such as banana bread, chips, cakes, bread or egg. In this case, they not only help the cake have a special flavor, much more aromatic, but also makes the egg smell much lighter and easier to enjoy. Kate has tried and actually found that with cakes, if you do not add a little custard powder, it is a bit flawed!

Custard flour helps make cakes delicious and less scent of eggs

- Used as cake filling: Any of us must have known the famous Custard cake, with the sponge cake and custard inside, made many people fascinated. Custard powder is an indispensable ingredient to make that filling. Not only that, custar powder is also applied to make "famous" delicious cream puffs.

The delicious cream filling part of cream choux is indispensable custard powder

- In addition, you can also mix custard flour with cornstarch as a crunchy ingredient, and use this mixture to fry corn, the taste is also quite good. Or combine them with mayonnaise to make a particularly delicious sauce.

To use custard powder you also need to "transform" according to each use of the dough. For example, when using custard flour to mix with baking powder, you just need to take the right ratio and then mix it up for real. And when you want to use custard powder as a cream filling or use in jelly dishes, first you need to dissolve the custard powder to use and then mix with the remaining ingredients! A small note for you when using custard powder is to adhere to the ratio of flour in the recipe because if you use too little will not achieve the desired flavor, using too much will make the cake strong and intense. Not delicious at all!

Where to buy custard flour? How much?

To find custard flour is not difficult. If previously you had a headache finding a place to sell this kind of flour, now, you only need to go to the store selling baking materials and ask to buy custard powder. Not only that, custard powder is also quite reasonable price, because this powder you only need to use in small quantities so you can buy about 100-200 grams / time. Avoid buying too much, resulting in poor storage of the dough, which is very wasteful!

Kate often buys custard powder at a few shops selling familiar baking materials for about 12-15 thousand VND / 100 grams. If you buy a large jar about half a kilogram, the price may be cheaper!

With some sharing about custard powder in this article of Taky, hope you can better understand this quite special kind of flour and use it in the most effective way.