Cake Foi-Thong

Foi Thong is Thai desserts made from duck eggs and drop into the hot syrup. Thanks to a few friends in Thailand, to share the recipe and idea of made a cake with Thai dessert. It was a wonderful cake! The combination of cake and this foi thong was a very good.

You can make your own Foi Thong, but in Thailand we buy is more easy ;-)
You can try this recipe, if you like to do so.

Ingredients of Foi Thong:

• 10 duck's eggs
• 5 hen's eaggs
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 cups jasmine scented water or normal water

1. Mixing sugar and jusmine water, heating until the sugar dissolves. Continue heating to the consistency of syrub. 
2. Break eggs and seperate yolks from white. collect the densest portion of the egg whites and set aside separately. remove all membrane from the yolks and mix the yolk with 2-3 tbsp of the dense portion of the whites.
3. Heat syrub in copper pan over fairy low heat. Place egg in narrow stemmed funnel and moving the funnel in circles above the hot syrup, drop a thread of egg into the syrup, making 10-30 revolutions.
4. When the egg has firmed (about 2 minutes), fold the thread over upon itself to form a raft, using a pointed wooden skewer.
5. Then remove, and place in a jar scented with a fragrant candle and jusmine.

Put into small pan


For the cake I use spongecake as the recepi below;

Basic Sponge Cake

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 100 gm cake flour
• 100 gm caster sugar
• 12 gm spongecake stabliser
• 25 gm milk
• 90 gm melted butter
• 200-250 gm Foi Thong

Methods:

1. Put all the ingredients except the melted butter into a mixing bowl
2. Beat everything on high for at least 7-10 mins until ribbon stage.This will be the right constitency for your batter. Add in melted butter at this stage and mix in thoroughly.
3. Line some baking paper into 9 inch cake tin. Place Foi Thong dessert all over the the bottom of the tin and springer a bit of syrup. You can put more as you like.
4. Pour batter over the Foi Thong. In the baking tray place the wet newspaper and put the cake tin on top and bake it in a preheated oven at 190C for about 20-30 minutes or untin the cake it's done.
5. Take out and leave the cake cool for 5 minutes and then turn over the cake into wire rack or plate and let the cake is complete cool. Cut and serve with coffee or tea.