Khanom piak pun, black Thai coconut cake
A traditional Thai dessert: rice soaked overnight in lime water, then ground, cooked with palm sugar, and colored with coconut charcoal powder, cut into s…
Discover this delicious rice paste, known as “khao piak puun.” It’s perfect for traditional desserts.
Ingredients and directions
- Prep time30 min
- Cook time15 min
- Resting12 hr
- Total12 hr 45 min
- DifficultyEasy
- CostBudget
- Cooking methodSaucepan
- Estimated cost$0.24 $0.04 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
Ingredients
people
- $0.18
- $0.06
Prices from US supermarkets for 1 of 2 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.
Directions
- Soak the rice in lime water overnight, then rinse it with this water.
- Melt the palm sugar and then strain the mixture into a frying pan.
- Add the charcoal powder, mixed with a little water and filtered, to the mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until the dough is almost firm.
- Pour servir, pour in a dish and let it cool.
- Cut into squares and roll them in the shredded coconut. ≈ 10 min
The bill
Khanom piak pun, black Thai coconut cake
- 1/4 cup of white rice$0.18
- 75 g of palm sugar$0.06
Total$0.24
that's $0.04 per person
Estimated price; varies by store.
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