Balapis Manado/Layered cake balapis

This Balapis Manado is a traditional cake from Manado with strong flavour of pandan leaves. Manado is the capital city of the North Sulawesi province in Indonesia. Manadonese cuisine is famous throughout Indonesia because : Manadonese eat absolutely anything and the flavor of choice is very, very spicy ...LOL...Manadonese cuisine uses a lot of chilies and nicely scented herbs like kaffir lime leaf, basil leaf (daun kemangi), lemon grass and ginger.

And yeah i'm proud to be a Manadonese/Minahasan (actually half of Manadonese hehehhe and half of Javanese).

Here's the recipe of "Balapis Manado".....modified by me.

Ingredients :

• 200ml of thick coconut milk , mix with 500ml of water and 400ml of fresh milk
• 250gr rice flour
• 50gr of tapioca starch
• 200gr granulated sugar
• 1tsp of pandan paste (becoz I cant find Suji leaves here to make green liquid paste)
• 1/2sdt salt
• 3 of fresh pandan leaves.

Directions:

• Bring to boil in a saucepan over medium heat the coconut milk, pandan leaves and salt. let it cool until warm for around 30minutes.
• Mix in big mixing bowl all dry ingredients of flour, tapioca starch and sugar and divide by 2 each in different medium mixing bowls.
• Divide coconut mixture between 2 medium bowls (550ml each) and add pandan paste into one of the bowl and mix well.
• Now, pour in white coconut milk into one bowl contains of dry ingredients and stir well until smooth. And pour in the green coconut milk into another bowl of dry ingredients and stir well until smooth.
• Grease 20cm of cake pan with oil and put inside the hot steamer.
• Pour in 50cc of white coconut mixture and steam for around 5minutes, and continue with ....
• Pour in 50cc of green coconut mixture and steam for around 5 minutes.
• Repeat the process untill no more mixture left ...in the end of the process steam a bit longer for around 20minutes.
• Take out the cake pan from the steamer and let it cool.