Last week my oven broke down. But do not think that I was affected by that. In fact I am a grown up brave girl and just cried for a few hours. Once I overcame the initial disappointment, I told myself, Gloria Gaynor-like: I will survive! After all, there was life before the oven, for years I had used it just to store the pans that did not fit in dish drawers. So I did a little bit of research on Google and I found these cuties, which are called Apam Dot Dot… dotted steam cupcakes for us, which meant I could keep eating cupcakes even if the oven had passed to a better life (far from me)
I adapted the recipe, to avoid using “ovalette”, which is a widely used cake stabilizer in Malaysia and Singapore, supposed to provide a great fluffiness to cakes. Among its ingredients: monoglyceride, polyglycerol, sorbitol, and lots of strange things, so I chose to do without. (I prefer no additives or chemicals in my food). I therefore changed the recipe to achieve a soft, airy spongy cake texture by beating the eggs a lot to create an airy dough
{Steam cupcakes: Apam Dot Dot}
Preparation time: 15 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Yield: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 150 g sugar
- 150 ml milk
- 300 g flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbs powdered strawberry (Recipe here)
- 12 tsp your favourite jam (I used cherry jam)
Directions
- Heat up steamer. In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar on high speed, until doubled in size, light and fluffy
- Add milk, and fold in flour and baking powder, until combined
- Divide the batter in two, and colour them as you like (As I wanted to avoid using artificial colouring, I added 3 tbs powdered strawberries
- Put the white batter and the pink batter in two piping bags. Put cupcake liners in glass/ foil/silicone moulds or small bowls ( make sure these are heatproof and won’t crack) so that the cupcake liners will not wet when cooked
- Press some batter onto the cupcake liners (about 1/3 capacity). Put 1 tsp jam filling, and cover with more batter (until 3/4 capacity). Finally, dot with a different color batter.
- Make sure water is boiling, and steam over medium low heat for 10-15 minutes
- Let them cool on a wire rack
NOTAS:
- You might use cocoa powder instead of powdered strawberry
- If you want to store them, the best way is to freeze them
- If you do not have a steamer, I have read some people prepare them with a frying pan
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Oh these are super cute! Wishing your oven a speedy recovery..x
ha ha thank you! : )
I love your blog!! and your photos are beautiful!!
As a Malaysian, I love apam and its been a while since I had it. Love your twist on a classic recipe 🙂
Seriously? Those are the cutest things ever! I want to make them!
Love your healthier version on our Malaysian Apams 🙂 🙂
Such a beautiful idea!
Really nice cupcakes! I would like to showcase this recipe on my cupcake recipes & ideas blog if you agree. Best regards
Hi there, what kind of flour can be used? All purpose flour?
Thanks… Will try this recipe soon.
Those are amazing.
I love that you switched to all natural ingredients. Great adaptation & cute cupcakes! Dangerous too, I would probably eat a whole batch since they’re mini!
Yes, I used all purpose flour 🙂
Thank you for your comments! 🙂
These look wonderful and I REALLY want to make them. What do you mean by a steamer? A pot with boiling water with an insert that has holes in it? Do you put on a lid? Thanks 🙂
I just tried this recipe. I found it super hard to dot wif the color batter. The dots are too big on the cupcake. Is it my cupcake liners are too small. And the dot turn out not in round shape. Is there any tricks?
I do not know, my cupcake liners were normal size… About the dots, maybe your batter was too thick.
anyway if you have a look at the people that prepared the recipe http://larecetadelafelicidad.com/has-hecho-una-de-las-recetas-del-blog/magdalenas-al-vapor you will see most of them got perfect dots, do not know what happenend to you exactly, sorry :/
Thank you for your reply. And the cupcake turn out very hard n not look nice. Do you think it is because i add too caster sugar and the amount is too less? and also is it better if i use weak flour? Do i also need to let the batter to sit in the cupcake liner for 15 mins before i put into steamer?
I had to stare at your beautiful cupcakes for some time before writing. They’re the most beautiful cupcakes I have ever seen. I will try to make and wish they will come out like yours.
I really excited with the word ‘Apam’! It’s a traditional Malaysian recipes 😀
These are so cute! I bet they’re really yummy too!
these look truely delish. i will be trying them.
i just adore your blog it’s one of my faves. your recipies are as magical as your photos.
thankyou for making me smile more times than you know.
xxxx
I love the way you tell us about your oven that has passed away. Quite amusing way of writing. These cupcakes look delicious. I like that you altered the recipe to avoid chemicals because I am sceptical about these things as well. Thank you very much!
Wow! They’re so cuties!:D I take the recipe!:)
Wow! These look fabulous. Just found your blog. Love it.
Amazing!!
Maybe I’ll start baking again.
Definitivamente lo voy a tratar se ven riquísimos!!
where or where did you get those cute little plaid spoons from?
I was wondering if I could make these polka-dot cupcakes just normal in the oven.
Thanks for sharing. Any idea where I can purchase cupcake cases. They look strong enough not to pull away with the steam. Online?
Where can I purchase cases…stronger than normal so won’t pull away when steamed? Online? Thanks.
Gorgeous, splendid, tasty, fruity, what a talent, thank you for sharing, have a nice day, liên:)
Is there any alternative to sugar?can we eliminate the sugar in the recipe?
I love your twist on this recipe! so i tried it out myself cause im not a huge fan of ovalette.
One question, did your apam turned out hard and very dense? i sifted the flour and folded the flour but mine came out very dense.
I adore you and your gorgeous pastry,not to mention your styling and photoshooting
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What is a “steamer”? It is obviously something for the stove but in the US we use that term for so many things, so could you explain? Gracias!
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I tried mixing all the ingredients together and the final product, before I added food coloring was really thick. (sort of sticky dough like) And in your pictures your totoros look glossy wet. Am I doing something wrong? Or is that normal.
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Hi.. i tried your recipe but the dots where either out of shape aftr steaming or the patterns din stay as drawn. Thy kinda mixed wit the batter 🙁
Taste was yummy!!
Can you let me know where i went wrong?
Thanks