CẤP CAKE

Shape is long and thin, like a finger. Ingredients are glutinous rice, coconut milk, pandan extract, salt, sugar. This cake does not have any filling. It is often used in offering to ancestors along with other cakes. Glutinous rice is washed and soaked overnight. Then the rice is cooked on a pan along with coconut milk, pandan extract, salt, and sugar. Then it is wrapped in banana leaves and boiled. It is used to be called bánh cặp (couple cake) since it is often wrapped in pairs. It is speculated that this cake originated from the Cham people since the cake is made with all natural ingredients as an offering to their god Yoni. The cake is chewy, fatty, sweet, and salty.

Collected by Linh Trang