Literally translated, the name means “liver cake”. Don’t worry this cake contains no liver; it’s only called that because, depending on how you make it, the appearance should somewhat resemble a piece of liver. Don’t let the looks and name scare you into missing out on some really yummy eats! This cake is served cold, and has a texture much like western flan. The flavor is rich and creamy due to the coconut milk, with a hint of star anise, coffee, chocolate, and brown sugar. Ingredients:-12 eggs (approximately 600g)
-1 tsp
tapioca starch-2 1/4 tsp
baking powder (not double acting)
-pinch of
baking soda-1 tsp instant coffee or
coffee flavor (extract)
-1 tsp
baking chocolate-1 can (400ml)
coconut milk-8
star anises-375g
Chinese brown sugar (aka bar sugar) or dark brown sugar
What to Do: Boil together sugar, coconut milk, and star anises until sugar dissolves, cool completely before removing star anises.
Lightly beat eggs with baking powder, baking soda, tapioca starch, chocolate and coffee.
Add syrup mixture and mix evenly.
Grease a 9 inch cake pan and preheat (pan only, no batter) at 350’F for 5 mins, before pouring in batter.
Bake at 350’F for 30-35 mins.
Cool and serve cold.
Notes: The above recipe renders a cake with “short” tunnels and a texture similar to Flan.
If a higher tunnel affect is desired, simply double the amount of baking powder (to 4 ½ tsp) and increase the amount of tapioca starch to 4 heaped tbs or up to 8 heaped tbs (depends on how chewy you like the texture to be).
Reference:Cute from www.datviet.com
