Chinese Steamed Rice Flour Cake

This will ensure that the rice flour and water are mixed well until smooth.

Chinese steamed rice flour cake.

Chinese steamed rice cake is nostalgic. Although the ingredients are similar the two types of steamed rice cakes are different. Chinese steamed rice cake or called white sugar rice cake 白糖糕 bai tang gao is a traditional chinese pastry. There are two types of chinese steamed rice cake one is made from pure rice flour with large spongy like holes and the other one is made with rice flour and plain flour with small holes.

Chinese steamed rice cake bai tang gao china sichuan food yeast oil warm water sugar water rice flour another singapore malaysia hawker food chwee kueh or steamed rice cake with preserved radish guai shu shu. Easy chinese steamed rice cake which needs just rice and yeast. This is so soft and taste amazing. Pour the hot syrup into the rice flour mixture very slowly and stir it constantly to prevent lumps.

Add butter coconut milk egg and water and mix all of the ingredients thoroughly with a wooden spoon or whisk. If you want to make puto or a filipino steamed rice cake start by sifting together your rice flour sugar and baking powder into a bowl. The cake is sweet and sometime slightly sour in taste due to fermentation of rice batter. It must have been more than a decade since i last sink my teeth into a piece of 白糖糕 bai tang gao steamed rice cake since both sets of my grandparents are cantonese i grew up eating tons of this soft and chewy cake.

Cut only when the steamed rice cake bai tang gao is completely cooled at least 1 2 hours for a 9 inch square tin multiply the recipe by 1 5x. The texture of this steamed cake is spongy slightly chewy and moist. 2 cup warm water. I grew up eating this chinese steamed rice cake for breakfast and for that reason it s such a nostalgic treat for me to have.

1 bag rice flour 3 1 2 cups rice flour.