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Soft and smooth wife cakes are a symbol of enduring love between couples, making them an essential part of wedding banquets. Refer to the recipe below.
With the meaning of enduring love, make this cake to gift to those you love. Below is a simple recipe for making two-tone wife cakes.
1. How to Make Red Wife Cakes
Ingredients for Red Wife Cakes:
Filling
- Peeled split mung beans: 100g;
- Sugar: 4 tablespoons;
- Grapefruit essence: 1 teaspoon (optional);
- A pinch of salt;
- Mochi flour or roasted glutinous rice flour (optional);
- Finely chopped young coconut: 4 tablespoons.
Pastry Shell
- Tapioca flour: 125g;
- Water: 240ml;
- Sugar: 1 tablespoon;
- Cooking oil: 1 teaspoon;
- Small bitter gourd: 1 fruit;
- Grapefruit essence: 1 teaspoon.
Steps to Make Red Wife Cakes
Step 1: Soak mung beans in water for about 1 hour until they swell, then steam until cooked.
Step 2: Pour the beans into a bowl or mortar, mash with sugar, cooking oil, salt, then finely grind the remaining ingredients until smooth, adding shredded coconut (if available).
Step 3: Shape the filling into small balls.
Step 4: Split the gac fruit, extract the seeds, squeeze the gac seeds with water to obtain a red color, then strain. You can add a few drops of alcohol to the gac seeds for a deeper red color. Take 240ml of the strained liquid, mix with cooking oil and grapefruit essence (if available), slowly stir in tapioca flour until dissolved.
Step 5: Let the dough rest for 30 minutes. Then put the dough in a pot and stir over low heat until it thickens and becomes elastic and sticky. If using shredded coconut, add it in.
Step 6: Brush a thin layer of cooking oil onto the mold. Spoon a tablespoon of dough into the mold, place a filling ball in the center, then cover with another tablespoon of dough to completely encase the filling (the dough is very sticky, so use 2 spoons to avoid sticking to your hands).
Beautiful Red Gac Wife Cakes
Step 7: Place the cake molds in a steamer to steam the cakes. Make sure to wipe the steamer lid to prevent water from dripping onto the cakes. Steam the cakes until cooked, then allow to cool before removing from the molds. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on parchment paper, place the cakes on top, then wrap them up.
Step 2: Ingredients needed for pandan leaf wife cakes:
Step 2: Ingredients for making pandan leaf wife cakes:
- Green beans: 100g;
- White sugar: 150g;
- Tapioca flour: 200g;
- Pandan leaf juice: 3 tablespoons;
- Cooking oil: 3 tablespoons;
- White sesame seeds: 2 teaspoons;
- Salt: ½ teaspoon;
- Grated coconut: ½ fruit;
- A touch of fragrant pandan leaves.
Steps to make pandan leaf wife cakes:
Step 1: Soak green beans in water for at least 1 hour until swollen, then drain and cook until tender. Mash or blend the cooked beans until smooth. Mix in sugar, cooking oil, and salt, then finely grind the remaining ingredients until smooth. Add shredded coconut if available, then shape the mixture into small balls.
Step 2: Mix tapioca flour, 100g sugar, vanilla, grated coconut, salt, cooking oil, pandan leaf juice, and a pinch of fragrant pandan leaves. Place the mixture in a pot, cook over low heat, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens.
Step 3: Spread the pastry dough on a clean surface, then use a knife to cut it into small pieces just enough to wrap the filling. Place the filling in the center and wrap it up tightly.
Steps to make pandan leaf wife cakes
Step 4: Toast white sesame seeds until golden brown, then sprinkle them over the cakes. Wrap the cakes tightly with plastic wrap. Flatten the wife cakes and steam them for another 10 minutes until cooked.
Finished product of making pandan leaf wife cakes
Wishing you success with these wife cake recipes to give to your loved ones!
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