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Steamed Black Layer Cake Served with Grated Coconut: Secrets of Indonesian Cuisine Recipes

published by Mr Ghaz on Feb 12, 2009

Try this delicious cake recipe. Great food for your entire family and it’s easy to prepare.


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Ingredients

  • 500 g rice flour
  • 200 g sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1600 ml coconut milk
  • 2 tbsp lime water
  • 10 tbsp ash water
  • 50 ml pandanus leaf juice
  • 200 g grated coconut, mix with 1 tsp salt, steamed
  • Oil to grease

Method

  1. To make ash water: burn 1 bunch paddy straw into ash, solve with 50 ml water, sieve.
  2. Mix well rice flour, sugar, salt, coconut milk and lime water into batter into two parts. One part mix with ash water and the other pout pandanus leaf juice.
  3. Grease a square mould cake 20×20x3 cm, pours 5 tbsp ash batter and spread evenly, steam for 5 minutes, make sure the layers are even. Repeat the process until the batter used up with alternate layers of ash and pandanus batter. Continue steaming the whole layer cake for 30 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat and allow cooling.
  5. Remove the layer cake from the mould, cut into pieces and serve with grated coconut.
  6. Transfer on to a serving dish and serve immediately

Serves : 25

One serving : 120 Calories

15 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Emma J Kerry
    February 12th, 2009 at 4:52 am #

    Sounds lovely!

  2. # 2 by Alicia Wind
    February 12th, 2009 at 5:15 am #

    Hmnn–120 calories….Yummy!

  3. # 3 by The Quail
    February 12th, 2009 at 5:44 am #

    Awesome article,sounds lovely must try.

  4. # 4 by papaleng
    February 12th, 2009 at 8:08 am #

    I can’t wait to take a bite, I know this is delicious because I do love dishes laced with grated cocnut and coconut milk. We call this knid od dish as “GINATAAN…”

  5. # 5 by Christine Ramsay
    February 12th, 2009 at 8:28 am #

    That sounds delicious though I am not sure you can paddy straw in this country. Can that be left out?

    Christine

  6. # 6 by Darla Smith
    February 12th, 2009 at 9:27 am #

    Sounds very delicious!

  7. # 7 by CHAN LEE PENG
    February 12th, 2009 at 9:59 am #

    Thanks for another recipe!

  8. # 8 by Anne Lyken Garner
    February 12th, 2009 at 11:55 am #

    This looks like a super delicious dish.

  9. # 9 by monica55
    February 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm #

    It sounds scrupmtuous. Thanks for the recepie.
    Monica.

  10. # 10 by dawn xoc
    February 12th, 2009 at 5:20 pm #

    i am wondering were i can buy some panandus leaf juice. This recipe looks delicious

  11. # 11 by denus
    February 13th, 2009 at 3:08 am #

    Im going to have to go ingredient hunting but sounds delicious!

  12. # 12 by Dr Shalini Kapoor Kad
    February 13th, 2009 at 4:27 am #

    I am feeling hungry now:)

  13. # 13 by eddiego65
    February 13th, 2009 at 6:01 am #

    Great dessert!

  14. # 14 by M Stokes
    February 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pm #

    Boy, if I make all these delicious recipes that I am finding on Triond, I am going to get fat!!!! So you guys will be the first ones that I get mad at… LOL (just kidding!) Thanks for sharing and keep them coming, my recipe box always has room for plenty more! :)

  15. # 15 by Yovita Siswati
    February 15th, 2009 at 11:44 pm #

    I love eating this cake too! The taste is sooo delicious!

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