How to make delicious and chewy pink cake in Binh Dinh standard

Pink cake is one of the famous specialty cakes in Binh Dinh. To enjoy the special taste of this cake, let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to make delicious and chewy pink cakes with Binh Dinh taste!

Prepare materials and tools

Ingredient:

– 1kg Ngu sticky rice ( soaked in water for 8 hours before making cakes)

– 1 kg of granulated sugar (the amount of sugar you can change according to the amount of powder ratio 1:1)

– 400g grated coconut

– 100g to 200g tapioca flour

– 2 to 3 pandan leaves

– 1.2 liters of filtered water

Tools : pan, pot, flour mill or blender,…

Steps to take

Step 1 : Grind and knead glutinous rice flour

– After soaking the glutinous rice for 8 hours to soften completely, put it in the blender with a little water to make a powder.

– After finishing the work of grinding glutinous rice, you put all the glutinous rice that has just been milled into a cloth bag, gently squeeze to let the water out, then hang the bag up to let the water drain down into the bowl until the flour is drained. This process takes about 3 hours.

– Put in the dry dough on a little water and then knead it thoroughly so that the dough has a sufficient plasticity that we can separate them from each other, do not pour too much water to make the dough dough.

Step 2 : Roast the tapioca flour

Tapioca flour is used here to make the cake, making the cake not sticky and more eye-catching.

– Put the tapioca flour into the pan and 2-3 pandan leaves, turn on the stove and roast.

– Roast until you can feel the aroma of pandan leaves, crispy dried pandan leaves and ripe flour, then turn off the heat and take out the pandan leaves.

Step 3 : Coconut slug

– Mix coconut and 300g of sugar prepared together and then soak for 30 minutes to let the sugar penetrate into the coconut.

– Turn on low heat coconut slug with sugar on the pan until the coconut is white in color , then stop.

Step 4 : Cook the cake

– Pour the prepared 1.2 liters into the pot, bring to a boil until boiling. Then pour the remaining 700g of sugar and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.

– Shape the dough into small pieces and flatten and then put in the pot of sugar water.

– Crush the dough into small pieces and beat slowly to dissolve the dough and mix into the sugar water.

– When the flour is evenly dissolved, lower the heat to low and continue to stir, until the dough comes , add the coconut and mix until the dough no longer sticks to the pan, then turn off the heat. If you do not know when the dough will come, touch the dough with your hands, the dough will not stick to your hands, the dough has arrived .

To increase the flexibility and help the cake have a more beautiful glossy color, when the dough does not stick to the pan anymore, roll the dough with grits and heat it on low heat. Then you stir the dough with your hand until you see the dough is clear and shiny according to your liking

Step 5 : Shape the cake

– Put all the freshly mixed dough into the mold and press it down.

– Sprinkle the flour evenly on the surface of the cake and let it cool.

– Finally, you just need to bring them to a cutting board to cut them into the shape you want and then display them on a plate and enjoy.

Finished product

So, after the above operations, we can enjoy a plate of supple pink cake with our family, which is very attractive. To preserve the cake, put the cake in an airtight bag or sealed container and then put it in a cool place or put it in the refrigerator .

Although it takes a bit of time to make this cake, in return you will have a delicious, chewy, crunchy dish. Hope that you will do it right away and succeed after reading this article!

*Refer to photos and recipes from Kitchen Co Minh YouTube channel.