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Modernist Cuisine's Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes
Difficulty: Easy |

Modernist Cuisine’s Scott Heimendinger shared this cool recipe from the new cookbook Modernist Cuisine at Home to make a fluffy, impressive dessert from boxed cake mix in about a minute in the microwave.

Special equipment: You will need a whipping siphon and 4 nitrous oxide canisters for this recipe.

Click here to watch Modernist Cuisine’s Scott Heimendinger demonstrate this technique in an episode of our CHOW Tips video series.

INGREDIENTS

For the cake batter:

  • 1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist Yellow Cake Mix
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs

To bake:

  • Whipping siphon
  • 4 nitrous oxide canisters
  • Paper cups
  • Nonstick cooking spray
INSTRUCTIONS
For the cake batter:

  1. Prepare the batter as directed on the box.

To bake:

  1. Pour half of the batter into the whipping siphon and charge with 2 of the nitrous oxide canisters.
  2. Using scissors, make a few vertical cuts in the bottoms of the paper cups to allow steam to escape.
  3. Spray the paper cups with cooking spray.
  4. Siphon the batter into the paper cups until they’re a quarter of the way full. (Do not overfill.)
  5. Cook 1 cup at a time in the microwave on high power for 1 minute.
  6. Invert each cup on a plate and allow it to rest for a few seconds while the steam escapes, then tap the cup on the plate to release the cake.
  7. Repeat the whole process with the remaining cake batter.

This recipe, while from a trusted source, may not have been tested by the CHOW food team.

    Write a review | 5 Reviews
  • Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
    2

    Ugh. Can still taste the artificial vanilla from the cake mix.

  • Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
    5

    Is modernist cuisine supposed to be low-fat? I must have missed the memo!

  • Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
    5

    @nikkib99 Your knowledge of basic cooking techniques and modern health sciences is appalling.

  • Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
    5

    @nikkib99 this recipe uses the exact same ingredients as any other cake would. if you're that worried about the intake of fat maybe you shouldn't even be looking at a recipe for cake. what this recipe does is show the unique way of cooking a cake. you clearly don't have a grasp of various cooking techniques if you would claim this is frying or confit (even if it was a "joke").

  • Modernist Cuisine’s Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes Recipe
    1

    Really? The main ingredient in the modernist cookbook's cake is a boxed cake mix? Between the eggs and oil, that's about half a cup of fat. In other words, you're frying the batter in the microwave. Or would this be a confit in MC terms. ============================================== Ncphelps: I take your response as a compliment. Clearly, what he's doing is not frying in the traditional sense or confit. I was being facetious - put down your MC bible, get off your pulpit, and laugh a little. It'll make your molecular gastronomy therapy sessions go a lot better.

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