Lapet Cake Recipe

Lapet is a traditional snack made from rice, glutinous rice, or a combination of the two and contains brown sugar and coconut. It has a sweet taste with a chewy texture and a distinctive fragrance. When visiting Sumatra, Lapet cake will be very easy to find. But if you're not a Sumatran and miss this snack market, follow our easy recipe for making Lapet cake.

Ingredients

Skin Dough:
Glutinous flour - 250 grams
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Hot coconut milk - 200 ml
Stuffing:
Grated coconut - 200 grams
Brown sugar - 150 grams
Water - 50 ml
Pandan leaves - 1 sheet
Salt - a pinch
Other:
Banana leaves for wrapping - to taste
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Plans

Stuffing: Comb finely brown sugar, then mix with water, pandan leaves, and salt. Cook while stirring until the sugar dissolves. Add grated coconut, cook until well mixed and sugar is absorbed.
Skin: Mix glutinous rice flour, salt, add warm coconut milk little by little. Knead until the dough is smooth. Divide the dough into 10 parts.
Take one part of the dough, fill it with stuffing and then round it again. Do it until the dough runs out.
Take one sheet of banana leaf that has been smeared thinly with cooking oil, shape the leaf into a cone, enter the lapet dough then wrap and fold tightly. Do it until it runs out.
Steam for 25 minutes until cooked.

How long does it take to cook lapet? Prepare a steaming pot and then arrange the lapet in it. Steam for 1 hour. Lapet is ready to be served.