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Steamed Zebra Cake

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I found another steamed cake recipe that's for keeps. It's called Mah Lai Goh, a Malaysian version of steamed cake.
5 from 2 votes
Course Sweets, Sweets and Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Grease an 8" round pan with coconut oil or butter (or spray with baking spray).
  • Line the bottom with parchment.
  • Prepare your steamer, preheat by bringing the water to a boil with the lid on.
  • Beat eggs and brown sugar in a mixer on med-high speed for 5 minutes.
  • Add the coconut milk, vanilla and coconut oil or melted butter to the egg mixture and beat for 1 minute.
  • Sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a bowl.
  • Resift the flour mixture over the prepared batter.
  • Gently but quickly fold in all the flour, careful not to deflate the air too much.
  • Divide batter into 2, mix 1 teaspoon of the pandan (screwpine leaves) essence or any flavoring with color of your choice into one half of the batter.
  • Spoon about 3 tablespoons of white batter into the center of the cake pan.
  • Next, spoon 3 tablespoons of the pandan (or colored) batter into the center of the plain batter, this will cause the batter to spread out.
  • Continue to alternate batters, in bulls-eye fashion until all batter is used.
  • Cover loosely with foil and steam for about half an hour.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
  • Lightly cover the pan with foil and place the pan on the steaming rack.
  • Cover and steam for about 30 minutes.
  • Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the middle.. if it comes out clean, cake's done.
  • Remove pan from the steamer, invert on a rack after about 5 minutes.
  • Cool the cake completely before serving with a dusting of powdered sugar or drizzled with chocolate sauce or just serve plain.
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