Bánh da lợn, steamed pandan coconut layer cake
A dessert from Southern Vietnam: alternating layers of tapioca and coconut milk dough and green pandan dough, steamed, with an optional layer of mung bean…
The pork cake, a soft and elastic multi-layered cake, is made with tapioca starch, sugar, coconut, and pandan. It is steamed, layer by layer, and then cut into diamond shapes.
Ingredients and directions
- Prep time30 min
- Cook time45 min
- Resting1 hr
- Total2 hr 15 min
- DifficultyEasy
- Cooking methodsteam
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten-free
Ingredients
people
- $10.21
- $0.31
- $2.30
- $0.97
Optional: Layer of beans
- $0.08
Directions
- Cut the pandan leaves, mix them with a bowl of water, and press to extract the juice. ≈ 8 min
- White dough: In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, 1/4 cup of coconut milk, and vanilla. ≈ 4 min
- Green dough: Mix a bowl of flour, a bowl of sugar, a bowl of pandan juice, cold water, the coloring agent, and a little baking soda, which prevents the color from bleeding. ≈ 4 min
- Bring the water from the steamer to a boil and heat a non-stick baking dish. ≈ 3 min
- Pour each layer, pour a layer of white batter, cook it until it is almost set, then pour a layer of green batter, and so on.
- Allow to cool completely before cutting.
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