Making cheesecake with molasses sugar.

I am on a low carb low sugar diet, which means eliminating white and refined products and processed foods as much as I can from my life.

So mommy (and my husband, too) are growing sterner with me when I begged for ice cream, ais kacang, cakes and ... repeat.

Blergh.

Mom said I could bake cakes, ONLY if the sugar amount was cut back very drastically.

You know how hard it is to bake WITHOUT granulated sugar.

So I have resorted to using the darker varieties of brown sugar - in this case, molasses sugar. Molasses are present in your typical packaged brown sugar, the colour depth varying with its molasses content. I was looking for muscovado sugar at the organic store but they only had molasses sugar and unrefined cane sugar for my replacements. 

Can anyone enlighten me on the differences between muscovado and molasses sugar?

Brown sugars contain more moisture than white sugar, therefore the dryness of white sugar is extremely crucial in making a cake with light texture.

On the other hand, instead of using my regular full cream milk, I have replaced it with low fat high calcium milk.

This recipe requires one to beat egg whites with sugar until soft peaks form. I actually whipped until firm peaks are formed. It takes a longer time to attain this with molasses sugar than you would regularly with granulated sugar.

I obtained 16 servings from this recipe.

Table below is the nutrition content of the cake. Take note that I did not include carbohydrates from the flours and protein from the eggs.

Moist chocolate cake.

It's a new year again. After so many years, our family is welcoming it with my paternal relatives up north. It was only when I was a child, dad would drive us all the way here and I remembered it took 10-12 hours of travelling from Kuantan.

Now with dad gone, we have no reason to stay in Kuantan for big days like these.

Families aside, I'm blessed to not be forced into kitchen duties (yet) and I can help out just whenever I feel like it.

So my daily routine goes from sleeping, eating and sitting.

Bored to my bones here with no oven, I have resorted to making steamed cake from whatever I could collect from our local mini marts.

I used a barely accurate mechanical weighing scale (which returns to different zero positions after each compression).

Adapted from Bakericious's Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake, a love at first sight. If you see some ingredients omitted from my recipe, it's because there is barely any ingredient at home and in the marts.