Recipe of Favorite Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake)

Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake)
Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake)

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Choose from the world's largest selection of audiobooks. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to 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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake):
  1. Prepare 3 eggs
  2. Take 130 gr caster sugar
  3. Get 250 gr all purpose flour
  4. Take 1/2 tbsp corn flour (you can omit this)
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
  6. Get 1 tsp cake emulsifier/ovalett/sponge gel
  7. Take 250 ml coconut water and fresh pandan juice
  8. Get 0.5-1 tsp pandan essence
  9. Prepare For the coconut topping
  10. Prepare Fresh shredded old coconut
  11. Get 1 tbsp corn flour
  12. Get 1/4 tsp salt/to taste

Kue Putu Ayu has no filling. It has a shape of cupcake with grated coconut. The mixture is traditionally steamed in bamboo tubes, while the center of the cake is filled with palm sugar. When steamed, the cake is usually dusted with freshly grated coconut.

Steps to make Kue Putu Ayu (pandan coconut steam cake):
  1. 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).
  2. 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
  3. Prepare all ingredients. For flour mixture: mix the all purpose flour, corn flour and salt in one bowl. Sifted the flour.
  4. 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.
  5. Coconut water mixture: mix the pandan juice, coconut water until 250 ml. Add pandan essence and vanilla essence
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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 mixture is traditionally steamed in bamboo tubes, while the center of the cake is filled with palm sugar. When steamed, the cake is usually dusted with freshly grated coconut. Kue putu and similar varieties of these convenient green-colored snacks are also found in Malaysia and the Philippines, and some believe that they might have been inspired by puttu —a similar snack of Indian origin. Mini Steamed Pandan Coconut Cake (Putu Ayu) My second attempt of making this cake, now that I have the right mold for this cake. The first one I did almost months and months ago, wasn't completely satisfying.

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