How to make a rustic cake with apricot leaves, a specialty of the West

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Rotten cake is a specialty cake of the West of the river with a delicious and strange taste. Today let’s see with Tnhelearning.edu.vn how to make simple rustic western specialty cakes at home.

Ingredients for making rotten cake (apricot leaf cake)

Very simple cake ingredients

• 100 pieces of jackfruit leaves
• 150g white sugar
• 400ml coconut milk
• 70g apricot leaves
• 200g rice flour
• 100g tapioca flour
• 50g cornstarch
• A little salt

How to make rotten cake (apricot leaf cake)

Step 1Prepare materials

Grind and filter apricot leaves, wash jackfruit leaves

Jackfruit leaves are washed and dried on both sides.

Apricot leaves are washed, then put in a blender with 450ml of water and pureed.

After grinding, prepare a sieve and a cloth to filter out the residue of leaves.

Step 2Prepare the dough

Mix flour to get a smooth dough

After filtering the juice of apricot leaves, slowly add the prepared powder to the apricot leaf juice, including 200g of rice flour and 100g of tapioca starch.

Use a spoon to stir the flour mixture until the dough is smooth. Continue to pour the flour mixture through the sieve to obtain a smooth and even flour mixture .

Step 3Make apricot leaf cake and steam it

Put the powder on the jackfruit leaves and steam the cake

Take a jackfruit leaf and turn the veins over, then use a spoon to stir the flour mixture. Put about 2 tablespoons of powder on the jackfruit leaves and spread out all the leaves.

You should put a lot of flour on the surface of the leaves so that when the cake is cooked, it will be easy to remove the cake. Do the same for the other leaves.

Prepare a steamer with boiling water, when finished, put each cake in the pot and steam for about 10 minutes . When the cake is cooked, it will turn black and have a characteristic aroma.

When the cake is cooked, take it out to cool and remove the cake from the leaves to enjoy.

Step 4Make coconut milk

Make coconut milk to serve with cake

While waiting for the cake to cool, go make the coconut milk sauce to serve.

Put 50g of cornstarch in a small bowl, add 50ml of filtered water. Then stir until smooth.

Put all 400ml of coconut milk into a large pot, add 150g of white sugar and 3 teaspoons of salt. The amount of sugar you can increase or decrease according to your family’s taste.

Stir well and cook until the coconut milk comes to a boil over medium heat . When the coconut milk boils, add all the cornstarch to thicken the juice. After the coconut milk has thickened and for a fragrant aroma, add a little chopped scallions.

Good tip
– Do not substitute cornstarch for tapioca flour because tapioca will make the coconut milk watery.
– Can replace cornstarch with rice flour or glutinous rice flour.

Step 5Finished product

Now, you just need to put the cake into a cup and then pour the coconut milk on top and enjoy right away. When finished, the cake will be black, chewy and have a characteristic aroma. When taking out the cake, the shape of the jackfruit leaf veins looks very special and attractive. The rotten cake dipped with coconut milk is very delicious here.

Finished product

Enjoy

The rotten cake has a delicious taste

When enjoying the loaf cake, you will feel the characteristic aroma of apricot leaves, accompanied by the fragrant aroma of jackfruit leaves . When eating, you can feel the characteristic flavor of the cake and the fatty aroma of water coconut milk.

Above is how to make banh bai, also known as apricot leaf cake, typical of the people of the West. If you have time, make it for your family to enjoy. Hope this information will be useful to you.

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