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 sugar
Castella 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?
- Make caramel sauce and pour it into 4 cups and let them set
- Combine custard pudding ingredients
- Start to preheat the oven
- Make Castella cake batter
- Pour the custard pudding mixture in on top of caramel sauce
- Top with castella cake batter over the custard pudding mixture
- Bake in hot water bath in the preheated oven for 40 minutes
- 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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FAQ
A: You can use ramekins or any oven proof container. It just looks cute and also you can see pudding and caramel sauce underneath with glass cups.
Recipe Measurements
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Castella Pudding カステラプリン
Equipment
- 4 heat proof glass cups(150ml each)
Ingredients
Caramel Sauce
- 3 tbsp granulated sugar *40g
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp hot boiling water
Custard pudding
- 11/4 cups milk * I used 300ml full cream milk
- 2 eggs *large eggs
- 4 tbsp sugar *50g
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour *30g
Instructions
Caramel sauce *1
- Put sugar and water in a small saucepan over med-high heat to bring it to boil.
- When the mixture bubbles and the colour has turned into an amber colour, turn the heat off.
- Add hot water gradually and swirl the mixture to make it an even consistency.
- Divide the caramel sauce into 4 heat proof glass cups and set aside.
Custard Pudding *3
- Warm milk up to around 140°F(60°C). *2
- Place egg and sugar into a mixing bowl and whisk together.
- Pour the warm milk into the egg mixture gradually and stir to combine them all together.
- Strain the egg mixture with a sieve and set aside.
Castella Cake Batter
- Start preheating the oven to 302°F(150°C).
- Place egg, sugar and honey into a mixing bowl.
- Whisk all together and place the bowl over the hot water.
- Continue to beat till the mixture forms soft peaks.
- Add sifted flour into the batter.
- Fold in the flour into the batter using a spatula.
Baking all together
- Pour the custard pudding mixture over the caramel sauce in the cups.
- Put the castella cake batter floating over the custard pudding mixture.
- Place the cups into a deep baking tray with kitchen cloth layered at the bottom.
- Pour enough hot water to reach the level of custard pudding mixture.
- Bake in a preheated oven of 302°F(150°C) in the water bath for 40 minutes.
- Remove the baking tray out of the oven. Take the cups out of the water bath.
- Tap each cup with a spoon or fork to avoid shrinkage of Castella cake.
- Serve warm or chill for later.
Hi, where is the recipe & ingredients for the Castella cake on the pudding?
Where do you buy these glass cups? I tried to look everywhere but cna’t seem to find them. They are adorable!
Hi Fee, I bought it online “Rakuten” from Japan.
This recipe was so simple to follow. Even i made a delicious Castella pudding following it closely.
Thank you
THank you so much for making Castella Pudding cake Elzi 😀