Kue delapan jam, eight-hour cake
The eight-hour cake is an Indonesian dessert that is steamed for eight hours using eggs, sugar, milk, and clarified butter, before being baked to give it …
The eight-hour cake, or “eight-hour cake,” gets its name from its long steaming cooking process.
Ingredients and directions
- Prep time15 min
- Cook time8 hr
- Total8 hr 15 min
- DifficultyHard
- CostBudget
- Cooking methodSteaming
- Estimated cost$3.72 $0.47 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.
- Vegetarian
- Gluten-free
Ingredients
people
- $1.60
- $0.03
- $0.05
- $0.28
- $1.76
Prices from US supermarkets for 3 of 5 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.
Directions
- Whisk the eggs with the sugar until the sugar is completely dissolved. ≈ 4 min
- Add the milk and clarified butter, then mix until smooth. ≈ 4 min
- Pour la cuisson, pourer the dough into a mold and steam it for eight hours. ≈ 3 min
- Once baked, remove the cake from the oven and place it in a preheated oven to brown it.
The bill
Kue delapan jam, eight-hour cake
- 4 eggs$1.60
- 50 g of sugar (1/4 cup)$0.03
- 5 cl of milk (1/4 of a glass)$0.05
- Margarine or oil, in sufficient quantity$0.28
- 50 g of clarified butter (ghee, 1/4 cup)$1.76
Total$3.72
that's $0.47 per person
Estimated price; varies by store.
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