Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, kue putu ayu (pandan coconut steam cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Putu Ayu or Putri Ayu is one of the Indonesian desserts/snacks originated in Java. It is basically a steamed pandan mini cake with grated coconut on top. Ayu which in Javanese means beautiful is indeed the visual point of this cake because the shape and color of Putu Ayu make a very pretty appearance. Grease cake moulds with a small amount of oil.
Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have kue putu ayu (pandan coconut steam cake) using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake):
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Take 130 gr caster sugar
- Take 250 gr all purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp corn flour (you can omit this)
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp cake emulsifier/ovalett/sponge gel
- Prepare 250 ml coconut water and fresh pandan juice
- Take 0.5-1 tsp pandan essence
- Get For the coconut topping
- Get Fresh shredded old coconut
- Take 1 tbsp corn flour
- Take 1/4 tsp salt/to taste
Indonesians also have another cake called Kue Putu. Both are made by steaming but Kue Putu has a tube shape with palm sugar filling. The tube shape comes from the bamboo tube that is used to mold the cake. Kue Putu Ayu has no filling. # Putu Ayu Cake
Steps to make Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake):
- Prepare your steamer. Use towel to wrap the steamer cover so that no steam water will drop into the cake. Make sure to add enough water and only steam the cake when it is very hot (lots of steam coming out from the steamer).
- For coconut topping: mix fresh shredded coconut and corn flour and salt, steam for about 10 minutes, set aside. The corn flour is used to keep the coconut stick together
- Prepare all ingredients. For flour mixture: mix the all purpose flour, corn flour and salt in one bowl. Sifted the flour.
- For the fresh pandan juice, take 10 pandan leaves, remove the tip (sometimes has sharp surface) and white part (because it is bitter). Cut into small pieces, add a bit water (not too much) and put it in your blender. Drain only the juice. You will get a concentrated pandan juice.
- Coconut water mixture: mix the pandan juice, coconut water until 250 ml. Add pandan essence and vanilla essence
- Beat the egg, sugar and cake emulsifier with your mixer, high speed until double in volume, white in colour and stiffer. This is a very important step to make sure that your cake will be soft and moist. Find a good article here: https://www.craftybaking.com/howto/eggs-beating-techniques-whole-eggs-and-yolks
- Using mixer, lowest speed: add 1/3 of flour mixture, continue with 1/3 of coconut water mixture. Another 1/3 of flour mixture, 1/3 coconut water mixture, and the last 1/3 of flour mixture and 1/3 coconut water mixture. You can also gently mix it with spatula (folding technique). Do not overmix
- Apply thin layer of cooking oil in your mould. Add the steamed shredded coconut and press down firmly. Pour the batter until it fill the mould
- Steam in your preheated steamer for 10 minutes. You also can make it plain if you don’t like shredded coconut as the topping. Another option is to drizzle melted brown sugar on top of this yummy steam cake 🤤🤤 if you use pure pandan juice the colour will be slightly dull but it is healthier :)
The tube shape comes from the bamboo tube that is used to mold the cake. Kue Putu Ayu has no filling. # Putu Ayu Cake Granulated sugar, according to taste * ½ tsp. Originally this cake is from Indonesia, called P. Puteri Ayu - Light and yummy cupcakes made up of pandan sponge cake with grated coconut topping in specially designed moulds for steaming.
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