Instructions on how to make soft and sweet Binh Dinh pink cake at home

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Pink cake is considered to be a symbol of good news, often appearing on special occasions such as weddings, … The fragrant plasticity of sticky rice mixed with the crunchy texture of coconut mixed with ethereal sweetness create a unique feature. of pink cake. Let’s work with Bach Hoa GREEN at home!

Ingredients for pink cake

• 1kg of sticky rice
• 1kg granulated sugar
• 400g grated coconut
• 2-3 pandan leaves
• 140g tapioca flour
• 1.2 liters of filtered water

Good tip: To make Binh Dinh standard pink cake, you should choose the type of glutinous rice because when making the cake, it will be more flexible and delicious than other common types of sticky rice. If you don’t have sticky rice, you can use sticky rice with yellow flowers or sticky rice

How to make pink cake

Step 1Grind and knead glutinous rice flour

You prepare in advance a cloth bag wrapped in a bowl to grind sticky rice. In order for the sticky rice to soften completely, you must soak the sticky rice for 8 hours, then put the soaked sticky rice in the blender with a little water. The freshly ground sticky rice you put in a cloth bag, squeeze out all the water and let it dry for 3 hours.

After the dough has dried, you add a little water and then knead the dough thoroughly to create enough plasticity to separate them from each other.

Note: Do not add a lot of water to make the dough.

Grind and knead glutinous rice flour

Step 2Roasted tapioca flour

Tapioca is used as the outer layer to make the cake easier to cut to avoid the cake sticking together. Put the tapioca flour in the pan with 2-3 pandan leaves to make the dough fragrant. You use low heat to roast until the dough is cooked, then turn off the heat

Hot Tip: To know if the dough is done, look at the pandan leaves. If the pandan leaves are dry, you squeeze the blisters or you put a little powder in your mouth and feel it melt in your mouth without getting stuck in the powder, it means the dough is cooked.

Roasted tapioca and pandan leaves

Step 3Coconut snail

Put 300g of sugar and prepared coconut in the pot and soak for 30 minutes so that the coconut is absorbed in the sugar and clear. Then, you slug the mixture of coconut and sugar on a pan with low heat until the coconut is white in color, then turn off the heat. .

Coconut snail

Step 4Cook bread

First, boil 1.2 liters of water and add the remaining 700g of sugar to boil until the sugar water is completely dissolved.

Then, you shape the dough into small pieces and flatten it and put it in the pot of water above. Next, you crush the dough pieces and beat the flour slowly so that the dough balls blend together to form a large dough.

Then you add the coconut and mix well until the mixture does not stick to the pan, then turn off the heat.

Next, you twist the dough with grit and heat the dough on low heat until the dough is clear and shiny as you like, then stop.

Cook bread

Step 5Shape the cake

You put all the freshly mixed dough into the mold, press the dough down and coat the outside with a layer of tapioca flour. Now just wait for the cake to cool, then you can cut it to your liking and enjoy right away.

Press the dough into the mold

Finished Product

Shape the cake to your liking

Biting a piece of pink cake will immediately feel the suppleness, aroma of sticky rice and absorb the sweetness of sugar. Pink cake is not difficult to make, but it requires hard work and meticulousness.

With this sharing, Bach Hoa Xanh hopes to bring you and your family a delicious dish during the epidemic season!

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