I made a friend called Shrek

Please meet shrek who has a smily face to greet his visitors.

In order to overcome our chinese new year craving, my friend and I decided to attempt 2 local delights (Shrek aka Kueh Salat or Otherwise known as Mr Green & Kek Lapis)

The kueh salat is basically made of two ingredients – glutinous rice and pandan custard. This is one of my favourite local kuehs which I always have to eat when I’m back home. I’m so glad that i finally am able to make it.

It was definitely a very wise idea to make it together if not making the kek lapis would have taken forever.

We followed the receipe from Nonya food which is a sister site of Rasa Malaysia. It is a really cool site which always makes me “lao nua” at the author’s beautiful pictures.

http://nyonyafood.com/kek-lapis-indonesian-layer-cake/

Unfortunately, we had a bit of a baking disaster that turned out to be quite alright. We misread the recipe and used castor sugar instead of icing sugar!! Plus, futher down the track we realised that we forgot to put the all spice in. We managed to salvage it by mixing it with the rest of the batter.

It was definitely quite an experience making the local delights and having a taste of home.

Hopefully with my new additions of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from my Home to Yours and Pierre Herme’s Chocolate Desserts in my cookbook collection will result in me expanding my repetoire!

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