Lemon Custard Cakes

         Some time back, I had tasted custard cake, it was not homemade, but it tasted so delicious, soft and spongy and with custard in the centre, had me hooked. From then on I wanted to make it at home, I made some lemon custard and used the whoopie pie pan to make small cakes. Of course what I made was totally different from what I had tasted, but still it was very good in its own way. I will be trying till I can get the original taste, meanwhile enjoy these lovely cakes, they tasted divine with a nice citrus flavor..

Need To Have
For The Cake

• All Purpose flour Or Maida - 1 cup
• Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Evaporated Milk - 3/4 cup
• Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
• Baking Soda - 1 teaspoon
• Butter - 2 tablespoons
• Oil - 2 tablespoons
• Vanilla Extract - 1/2 teaspoon
• Lemon Juice - from half a lemon
• Salt - a pinch

For The Custard

• Custard Powder - 1 + 1/2 tablespoon
• Milk - 1 cup
• Sugar - 2 + 1/2 tablespoons
• Lemon Juice - from half a lemon
• Lemon Zest - from 1 lemon

Method
          Mix in the custard powder in 1/4 cup milk, heat the remaining milk with the sugar, add the custard to this, keep stirring till thick, remove and cool. When cold, add the lemon juice and the lemon zest. Coming to the cake, sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder. Take the butter, oil, sugar and evaporated milk, mix it well, add the salt and the vanilla extract, then add the sifted flour, combine everything together to a nice batter and finally mix in the lemon juice. Grease the pan, add a spoonful of batter, drop in a teaspoon of the custard in the center followed by some more batter. Bake them at 375F for 10 to 12 mins. Cool and remove them carefully, we had it as such, but I think it'll taste good even with some ice cream.

Sending it to Kitchen Affaire for Priya's Veggie/ Fruit A Month Event - Lemon
                to Zesty Palette for the Sweet Luv event,
                to Srav's Culinary Concepts for the Dish For Loved Ones event,
                to Tickling Palates for the Let's Cook-Sweet Somethings event,
                and the I Love Baking event,
                to Anzz Cafe for the Valentine's Special event,
                to Sumee's Culinary Bites for the Bon Vivant event,
                to Tomato Blues for the Bake Fest event started by Vardhini,
                to Cuisine Delights for the Colorful Holi event,
                to Preeti's Kitchen Life for the Color And Sweet -  Holi Fest event,
                to Spice N Sugar Tales for the  Cakes, Cookies And Desserts event,
                to Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes for Srivalli's Kids Delight event,
                to Sizzling Tastebuds for the Valentine's Fest - Served With Love and
                to My Cook Book for the  Holi Hai event.

Note
You can use muffin pans for this, since I used the whoopie pie pan, I had to remove the cakes very carefully since the moulds were very shallow and the custard sunk in.
I had left the cakes in the oven for another 5 mins after switching the oven off, that gave the caramelized color to the cakes.
Don't make the custard thick like I did, it sank down a little.