Ingredients

• 340 gm- Wet Rice Flour or Rice Flour
• 225 gm- Sago Flour
• 1/4 tsp- Salt
• 855 ml (1.5 coconut)- Coconut Milk
• 425 ml- Water
• 450 gm- Sugar
• 8 Screw pine Leaves (if unable to obtain screw pine leaves, use vanilla essence 1 tsp)
• Red food colouring

How to Make Nyonya Cakes

• Mix flours, salt and coconut milk till smooth. Set aside. Boil water, sugar and screw pine leaves till sugar dissolves. Leave the syrup to thicken a bit then strain.
• Pour the hot boiled syrup gradually into the flour mixture, stirring all the time till it is well blended.
• Divide the flour mixture into two portions. Set aside one portion (uncoloured) and add red colouring in another portion.
• Grease a round or square tin. Place it in a steamer and pour 140 ml of uncoloured batter in the tin.
• Steam each layer for six or eight minutes. Pour alternatively the red and uncoloured batter and steam till mixture is used up.