Sweet Wet Cake - A Playful Dish in Bến Tre Province

The sesame-infused dough shell, enclosing a mixture of smooth mung bean and finely shredded coconut, has created an irresistible charm for the Western-style cake.

Sweet Wet Cake - A Playful Dish in Bến Tre Province

Bến Tre is known for its many crispy rice cracker and famous rice paper factories. The locals here often utilize coconut and rice paper to create countless delicious and unique traditional dishes, among which sweet wet cake must be mentioned.

This is a type of cake with a shell made from moist coconut rice paper, not yet dried. Then rolled with mung beans and shredded coconut to create an enticing delicacy.

The secret to making delicious coconut cake lies in the dough spreading stage. The shell must be truly chewy and translucent to meet the requirements. To make the dough, you mainly need rice flour mixed with coconut milk, sugar, salt, water, and roasted sesame seeds. The dough should have a slightly sweet taste so that when eaten with the filling, it is neither tough nor cloying. If you want the shell to be chewier, the cook can mix in glutinous rice flour or tapioca flour.

To enhance the visual appeal of the sweet rice cake, bakers also add a bit of pandan leaf extract, pineapple, or beetroot powder to the dough, creating shades of green, yellow, and purple. The filling is also simple, just choose mung beans, soak, boil until soft with coconut milk. The dried coconut is then finely shredded.

After mixing the dough, it is evenly spread onto a smooth cloth stretched over a pot of boiling water. The cake is slightly thicker than regular rice cakes. When the sweet rice cake is cooked, it is rolled out using a cylindrical tool onto a tray that has been brushed with oil. Continue spreading until all the dough is used.

In the next step, the cook will layer mung bean filling and shredded coconut in the middle, spreading them evenly and rolling them into a long roll. If you want shorter cakes, cut them in half after rolling, otherwise, leave them whole for a more pleasing appearance.

Unlike savory rice cakes, sweet cakes are still delicious when eaten cold, with a shiny surface and the texture of mung beans... The flavor of this dish easily captivates those who have never tasted it before, with its delightful sweetness. The cakes can be served with sesame salt or peanuts. In Bến Tre markets, they typically sell for between 2,000 and 3,000 dong per roll.

According to Vnexpress

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Reference: Travel guide by Mytour