Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake)

Name: Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake)
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 130 gr caster sugar; 250 gr all-purpose flour; 1/2 tbsp corn flour (you can omit this); 1/2 tsp salt; 1 tsp cake emulsifier/ovalett/sponge gel; 200 ml coconut water and 20 ml fresh pandan juice; 0.5-1 tsp pandan essence; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder (if your egg cannot rise after beating it with mixer, baking soda and baking powder will help raise the cake) - optional; Fresh shredded old coconut; 1 tbsp corn flour; 1/4 tsp salt/to taste

purple_acied @purple_acied

Singapore

Childhood snacks I miss when I am far away from home.. try to recreate them but in this recipe, I use coconut water instead of coconut milk so it tastes lighter.

Recipe is adapted from kue putu ayu Xander’s Kitchen (cookpad Indonesia)

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Childhood snacks I miss when I am far away from home.. try to recreate them but in this recipe, I use coconut water instead of coconut milk so it tastes lighter.

Recipe is adapted from kue putu ayu Xander’s Kitchen (cookpad Indonesia)

#myCookBook

purple_acied @purple_acied

Singapore

Childhood snacks I miss when I am far away from home.. try to recreate them but in this recipe, I use coconut water instead of coconut milk so it tastes lighter.

Recipe is adapted from kue putu ayu Xander’s Kitchen (cookpad Indonesia)

#myCookBook

Childhood snacks I miss when I am far away from home.. try to recreate them but in this recipe, I use coconut water instead of coconut milk so it tastes lighter.

Recipe is adapted from kue putu ayu Xander’s Kitchen (cookpad Indonesia)

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Ingredients

3eggs
130 grcaster sugar
250 grall-purpose flour
1/2 tbspcorn flour (you can omit this)
1/2 tspsalt
1 tspcake emulsifier/ovalett/sponge gel
200 mlcoconut water and 20 ml fresh pandan juice
0.5-1 tsppandan essence
1 tspvanilla extract
1/4 tspbaking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder (if your egg cannot rise after beating it with mixer, baking soda and baking powder will help raise the cake) - optional
For the coconut topping
Fresh shredded old coconut
1 tbspcorn flour
1/4 tspsalt/to taste

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Steps

1

Prepare your steamer. Use towel to wrap the steamer cover so that no steam water will drop into the cake. Make sure to add enough water and only steam the cake when it is very hot (lots of steam coming out from the steamer).
2

For coconut topping: mix fresh shredded coconut and corn flour and salt, steam for about 10 minutes, set aside. The corn flour is used to keep the coconut stick together
3

Prepare all ingredients. For flour mixture: mix the all-purpose flour, corn flour and salt in one bowl. Sifted the flour.
4

For the fresh pandan juice, take 10 pandan leaves, remove the tip (sometimes has sharp surface) and white part (because it is bitter). Cut into small pieces, add a bit water (not too much) and put it in your blender. Drain only the juice. You will get a concentrated pandan juice.
5

Coconut water mixture: mix the pandan juice, coconut water until 220 ml. Add pandan essence and vanilla essence
6

Beat the egg, sugar and cake emulsifier with your mixer, high speed until double in volume, white in colour and stiffer. This is a very important step to make sure that your cake will be soft and moist. Find a good article here: https://www.craftybaking.com/howto/eggs-beating-techniques-whole-eggs-and-yolks
7

Using mixer, lowest speed: add 1/3 of flour mixture, continue with 1/3 of coconut water mixture. Another 1/3 of flour mixture, 1/3 coconut water mixture, and the last 1/3 of flour mixture and 1/3 coconut water mixture. You can also gently mix it with spatula (folding technique). Do not overmix
8

Apply thin layer of cooking oil in your mould. Add the steamed shredded coconut and press down firmly. Pour the batter until it fill the mould
9

Steam in your preheated steamer for 10 minutes. You also can make it plain if you don’t like shredded coconut as the topping. Another option is to drizzle melted brown sugar on top of this yummy steam cake 🤤🤤 if you use pure pandan juice the colour will be slightly dull but it is healthier :)