How to Bake a Cake in a Rice Cooker, Quick and Easy Recipe

If you are wondering what else you can make with your rice cooker, you’ll be surprised to learn that you can actually bake in it! Learn how to bake a cake in a rice cooker in this exciting new post.

It Ain’t Just a Rice Cooker!

Well, it’s pretty obvious that the rice cooker appliance is so underrated that its name was fastened with rice only.

However, there are numerous recipes you can actually cook with a rice cooker and that includes everyone’s favorite, cake!

If you have been using a rice cooker for a long time, you probably know a few recipes to cook in it. Such recipes vary from appetizers, stir-fried dishes, stews, soups, and of course, desserts.

Desserts in a rice cooker seem very unusual but yes, it’s definitely possible. And the easiest dessert to make in a rice cooker is our all-time favorite, cake!

Well, it is actually pretty intriguing on how to bake a cake in a rice cooker, when in fact it doesn’t work like an oven. And this is what we will find out today!

How to Bake a Cake in a Rice Cooker

Perhaps, you might be wondering now how will the rice cooker do the baking when the standard rice cooker only has two options, which are to cook and keep warm.

But hey, remember that this small appliance can do great things! It can actually bake a lot of cake varieties ranging from the basic sponge cake to the most complex ones.

The cooking process is similar to cooking rice, well, except, we’re making a cake. 🙂 All you need is to get all the right ingredients!

Let’s first learn how to bake a simple sponge cake using a standard rice cooker.

What You Will Need:

• 45g sugar
• 90g all-purpose flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons milk
• A tablespoon of honey
• Dried raisins

How to Bake

1. On a mixing bowl, add the eggs and sugar. Use an electric mixer to beat ingredients until fluffy.
2. Warm the milk on a saucepan together with the honey and pour it in the egg mixture and beat well
3. Place the bowl on top of a pot of hot water and continue beating until it becomes fluffy and almost double in size
4. Lastly, add the flour and mix it well using a spatula.
5. Grease your rice cooker inner pot with melted butter or olive oil
6. Pour in the cake batter and add your raisins
7. Gently tap the inner pot to remove excess bubbles
8. Finally, place the inner pot into the rice cooker and press the Cook button and wait!

It’s all up to you if you needed some icing for your sponge cake or this is all good.

Cooking time should be around an hour and a half but it depends on your rice cooker. If it switches to warm mode every 7-10 minutes, wait for a minute and then switch it back to Cook mode.

Cooking Notes

One important thing to remember when trying to bake a cake in a rice cooker is the heat requirement. Not all rice cookers have the same heating settings. Read your appliance’s manual if it supports the heat needed in baking.

Is There a Rice Cooker with Baking Option?

Definitely! With the ever-upgrading world, we are in today, many brands and manufacturers have added a cake setting on their cooking menus.

It’s actually no surprise at all since the rice cooker has been gaining a lot of attention lately and is perceived as a multi-cooker. Because of its versatility, the rice cooker can, in fact, replace the rest of your kitchen appliances!

What Rice Cooker Can Bake a Cake?

There are many brands that have integrated cake as one of their cooking options but I find Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Micom Rice Cooker as one of the most reliable because of its name and proven quality.

The Zojirushi NS-TSC18 is a micro-computerized fuzzy logic technology rice cooker with multi-cooking settings, including white rice or sushi, porridge, mixed, brown, sweet, steam, quick, and the cake option.

This rice cooker actually does all the work for you without having to worry about your food. Its technology allows the appliance to adjust the heat and the temperature to make sure that whatever food you are cooking will come out perfect, and this includes your cake base!

How to Bake a Cake in Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Rice Cooker

Using the same recipe we had earlier which was a sponge cake, gather the same ingredients and perform the same method.

You can also follow these steps:

• Once you have finished doing the cake batter, grease the pot with oil or butter and pour it in. Don’t forget to gently tap the bottom of the pot to release excess air.
• Place the inner pot in the rice cooker and use the cake cooking menu.
• Simply wait until your rice cooker sings its lullaby or finishes cooking

This time, you may want to add some icing to decorate your cake!

Rice Cooker Chocolate Cake

Here is another take on how to bake a cake in a rice cooker, and this time, it’s actually chocolate cake!

I have tried making it myself and was able to tweak a few ingredients to have some personal touches!

You too can try this recipe at home! It’s a perfect dessert that you and your loved ones can share.

Thanks to Lively Penguin for this awesome recipe.

Check out this video below!

Summary

There you have it; baking a cake in a rice cooker is easy. Once you learn the basics, surely, you will be able to experiment and make your own recipe.

I am sure that after reading this post, you are can’t wait to get your hands on the ingredients and your good ol’ cooker. 😀

What’s great about preparing this dessert is that you don’t need to have a sophisticated rice cooker to bake a simple cake.

You only need to get all the right ingredients, mix them well, and follow the recipe instructions. Who knows, you ‘ll be able to make your own fruit cake or cheesecake in a rice cooker!

However, if you want to have an all-in-one rice cooker function, you can rely on Zojirushi NS-TSC18. This specific model offers most of the common cooking menus and apart from that, it gives you perfect food all the time.