How to Make and Process Chinese New Year Basket Cakes

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• How to make basket cake
• How to prepare basket cake

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Chinese New Year doesn’t feel complete without basket cakes or nian gao. This typical Chinese food made from sticky rice flour is believed to bring good luck if eaten when Chinese New Year.

You can make it yourself at home by following recipe following. Apart from being eaten just like that, basket cakes can be processed into other shapes.

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Nian gao consists of two words, namely nian 年 or year and gao 糕 which has the same pronunciation as gao 高 or high. When put together, it means nian gao has the meaning of a higher year or a more prosperous year.

People who celebrate Chinese New Year usually buy basket cakes during Chinese New Year as a form of hope for a better year.

However, how to make and process basket cakes is very easy and can be done at home.

How to make basket cake

Here’s how to make basket cakes that you can copy.

Materials needed:

• 375 ml hot water
• 400 grams of granulated sugar
• 300 grams of mashed oats
• 300 grams of sticky rice flour
• 75 grams of sago flour
• 300 ml coconut milk
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ tablespoon cooking oil for greasing

How to make basket cake:

Prepare a bowl and add hot water.

Add granulated sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.

Put the ground oats, sticky rice flour and sago flour into a separate container.

Add the filtered sugar water to the flour mixture and stir until evenly mixed.

Add coconut milk and salt, then stir until smooth and even.

Prepare a basket cake mold, grease it with cooking oil so that the dough doesn’t stick.

Pour the mixture into the mold.

Steam the basket cake mixture for 30 minutes until cooked.

Remove and serve.

To make basket cake easier to consume, cut it into small sizes and serve it to family or guests.

How to prepare basket cake

Basket cake has a sweet taste with a sticky texture and is usually served with tea.

However, for some people, the taste is too sweet, making them unable to finish one serving of basket cake.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for basket cakes to be reinvented into other preparations so that they taste better and are not boring. For example, processed basket cakes are fried in flour or add steamed coconut.

For those of you who are curious about how to process it, here are the steps you can follow:

1. Processed flour fried basket cake

Ingredients needed:

• 250 grams basket cake
• Sufficient cooking oil
• 100 grams of wheat flour
• 30 grams of rice flour
• 1 tablespoon starch
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 250 ml of water

Cooking method:

Cut the basket cake into small sizes, about 3x1x1 cm

Coat the cake pieces with flour

In a separate container, make a dough by mixing wheat flour, rice flour, starch, baking soda, ground cinnamon and granulated sugar together.

Pour in the water little by little and stir until smooth.

Once the mixture is thick enough, leave it for 15 minutes.

Heat oil in a frying pan using medium heat.

Dip the basket cake pieces that have been coated with flour into the mixture, then put them in the hot oil.

Fry until the basket cake turns golden yellow.

Lift and drain.

Serve while the food is still warm.

2. Processed coconut steamed basket cake

Ingredients needed:

• 250 grams basket cake
• 4 tablespoons grated young coconut
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Cooking method:

Steam young coconut with salt for 20 minutes, set aside.

Steam the basket cake slices until soft.

Once the cake has cooled, cut it into small pieces.

Cover the cake with young coconut.

Serve food.

Isn’t it easy to make and process the basket cake above? Good luck!

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