Kueh lapis

INTRODUCTION Lapis is in Malay and is literally translated as “layers’. This is a Nonya steamed cake and is different from the Kek lapis. Kek lapis is baked but kueh lapis is steamed and the…

Kueh Lapis, or Steamed Layer Cake / Jiu Ceng Gao, never fails to put a smile on my face. After all, who can forget having these as a child, peeling off the layers individually and slowly savouring each soft, springy layer of coconut-y goodness!

Kuih lapis is a traditional Asian dessert popular in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. It is usually prepared as a layered cake consisting of rice flour, tapioca flour, water, sugar, coconut milk, pandan leaves, and red, green, or pink food coloring. The cake is steamed and the final result looks similar to layered pudding. Before cutting and serving, kuih lapis should be left to cool down completely. In the Netherlands, the layered cake is called spekkoek, and it's not steamed, but baked.

How to make Rainbow Kueh Lapis, or Singapore Nine Layer Steamed Cake.

The traditional Kuih that I have loved since I was a child - Kuih Lapis (Steamed Layered Rice Cake). Our approach is to use natural coconut sugar's color and aroma to make the whole taste more fragrant and delicious.

KUEH LAPIS Ingredient A 130 g Tapioca flour 100 g Rice flour 60 Mung Bean flour Ingredient B 900-ml Water (200 ml coconut milk + 700 ml plain water) 150 g castor sugar 1/2 tsp salt 5 pandan leaves 1 -2 tsp vanilla flavor Pink, Red and Orange permissible food coloring Methods Method -step 1 1) Sieve and combine Ingredient A 2) Heat up a sauce pan add in ingredient B warm up stir sugar dissolve (Do not boil) 3) Turn off heat remove the pandan leaves set aside to cool, set aside. Method -step 2…

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How to make Rainbow Kueh Lapis, or Singapore Nine Layer Steamed Cake.

With so many kopi places now going retro and offering old school biscuits and cakes, it was only a matter of time before someone starts offering traditional Nonya/Malay kuehs as another option to satisfy your need for a sweet delight in between meals.

I thought I won’t be baking KeK Lapis this year. But after seeing so many BCL members shared and posted, I decided to do one for ourselves and Mom. And this was so tiring. The feeling was so …

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made with glutinous rice flour, The nonyas had included layers of colours which made it lovely to look and its stated the green colouring used to be from pandan, blue from bunga telang and white is the original coconut milk flavour with no colouring and so on...