3.5. Rice cupcake characteristics
3.5.1. Cake batter properties
The rice cupcake formula was based on flour weight and it is consisted of: 150 g rice flour, 300 g egg,120 g sugar, 2 g salt, 30 g oil, and 30 g rice wine. This was a revised recipe of the general wheat flour cupcake formula (130 g weak flour, 30 g butter, 120 g sugar, 30 g sugar syrup, 160 g egg, and 2 g salt). Comparing the two cupcake recipes with rice flour and wheat flour, the oil content for rice flour recipe was lowered to 25% of wheat flour cupcake recipe. The rice cupcake was thought for a better and lower-calorie product, but more eggs were included to help network formation of cake instead of wheat gluten network formation.