Do You Love Rice?

Rice for Cakes
Instead of cooking rice to be served with its garnishes, use rice for sweets preparation, such as rice pudding, rice cake Javanese style, etc

Kue mangkok, is steamed rice cake which is very popular in Java for snacking.  It is served cold or room temperature, it is a colourful, yellow, pink or green pretty cake.

I cooked this cake with the twist.  Serving the cake usually is plain, but I stuffed the cake with sweet coconut filling, then roll cakes jelly, and finished it off by rolling them in desiccated coconut. The process is exactly as when you would prepare jelly cakes.

Jelly Cake Using Rice Flour

The texture is a little dense, firm but delicious

Green kue moho or steamed green rice cake
coconut caramel for the filling, and desiccated coconut

Cut the cake, and add the filling.

Put the other half of the cake on top to enclose the filling.

Deep and roll the cake onto agar jelly

Roll the cake onto the desiccated coconut

Place all the cakes on a clean plate to set the Jelly.

The jelly is firmed and set, the cake is ready to be served

It started off with the Kue mangkok that did not open correctly in the cooking process.  I could not serve the cake as it is.  It comes to the idea of fixing the cakes to become jelly cakes (traditional English cake).

The Recipe:

Kue Mangkok

Ingredients

75 g self-rising flour

175 g rice flour

150 g sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

Food colouring

125mil soda water

100mil water

Same salt – a dash of salt

Method

Oil mini cups to steam for the cakes

Set the steamer, fill it up with water, put over medium heat and bring the water to boil.

Mix together the self - rising flour, rice flour, sugar, baking powder, water, soda water, vanilla and the salt, to make a smooth mixture.

Add in the food colouring, and mix it well

Pour the cake mixture to the ready cups, and fill them up almost to the top.

Put in the steamer and cook for 25 minutes.

Take the cups out and let them stay until cooler before turning out to cool.

Kue mangkok-with plain tops
They are pretty green.

The cakes can be a treat for people who are suffering from Celiac, it is delicious and healthy enough, it does not contain any cream or butter and is made out of rice instead of wheat flour.

Kue mangkok is pretty as a flower
the tops are open beautifully

I love rice to cook for Javanese food, also arborio rice to cook for cooking Italian risotto,  and also I love short grain rice to cook for Japanese food-sushi.  But this one, the sweet cake from rice is new cooking to me, and I decided to love it. 

Rice can make delicious sweets and also for the main meals served with garnishes.

If you love rice, and cooking rice, give the recipe a go for a chance to make a sweet treat.  Happy cooking!

Until Next Post

Susy