Recipe of Layer Cake (Kue Lapis) in 30 Minutes for Beginners

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, layer cake (kue lapis). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Layer Cake (Kue Lapis) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Layer Cake (Kue Lapis) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Kue lapis is an Indonesian kue, or a traditional snack of steamed colourful layered soft rice flour pudding. This steamed layered sticky rice cake or pudding is quite popular in Indonesia, and also can be found in the Netherlands through their colonial links. The steamed kue lapis is so much "easier" to make compared to the baked version.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have layer cake (kue lapis) using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Layer Cake (Kue Lapis):

1. Make ready 700 ml coconut milk
2. Prepare 150 gram rice flour
3. Make ready 75 gram tapioca flour
4. Make ready 150 gram sugar or as desired
5. Get 1 tbsp cocoa powder
6. Prepare 1 tsp vanili
7. Take 1 pinch salt
8. Make ready 1 pandan leaf

The cake directly translates to Layer cake, because as you see it is made up of multi layered thin… Kek Lapis is a well known cake in southeast asia especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, usually serve during festive occasions and holidays. In Indonesia, the cake is popularly known as (kue) lapis legit, literally "delicious layers (cake)", because it consists of many thin layers of cake. Leave Kuih Lapis to cool completely after steamed and invert the cake pan to knock out the kuih. Grease knife with little oil before cutting.

Steps to make Layer Cake (Kue Lapis):

1. Heat up coconut milk with pandan leaf and salt. Wait until bubbles appears. Set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix coconut milk, sugar, and flour. Wisk throughly until incorporated and there is no lump.
3. Divedid mixture into two parts. Add cocoa powder in one of mixture.
4. Grease mold with oil. Prepare the steamer. Pour about 50 ml chocolate mixture, and steam for 5 minutes. Open the lid, and add white mixture on chocolate mixture. Steam for 5 minutes. Repeat until finish.
5. Transfer the cake from steamer. Let it cool and slice it. Serve and enjoy !

You may also brush a little oil on the surface as gloss finishing. Lapis legit/spekkoek/Indonesian thousand layers cake is a must for special celebrations such as Chinese New Year, Christmas, or Eid. Malaysian layered cake, Indonesian layer cake, Kue Lapis, Kek Lapis or simply traditional layer cake. Of course, the recipe is not exactly the same in all countries but the outcome is quite similar. So, a few days ago I came across this recipe and decided to try it out.

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