Angku kueh (red tortoise cake) - First trial

Phew....I finally made this kueh. I bought all the ingredients for quite a while but kept on delaying of making this. Since making this kueh is quite time consuming, I can only make it when there's no martabak order.

It took me almost 2 hours making these goodies.

There were some errors I made:

1. Instead of buying mung bean, I bought yellow split peas :( Luckily I still had a little bit of mung beans in my pantry but with skin on. According to the instruction in the internet, the skin will be easily peeled off after they are soaked overnight. Somehow I couldn't get all the skin peeled off,  resulting in 'dirty' looking filling. I'll buy the peeled mung bean next time to save time.

2. I didn't mash my sweet potatoes properly which made my angku skin not really smooth.

Despite all those errors, they taste good. The skin is chewy and soft. The filling is good too, even though I can feel the skin.

Anyway, I need to look for a proper mould.

Be careful of what you wish for!

Remember the other day I mentioned that I was considering to sell lapis legit?

Crazily, someone sent me a message and asked if I could make a lapis legit right after I published the post.

As she needed it quite urgently, I didn't have time to get all the ingredients and bake the cake for her.

The following day, I gathered all the ingredients that I need and bake it. I have baked this cake few times but never used my own oven. Since every oven works differently, it was really a trial and error in baking the first layer. I had to scrap the first layer as it's slightly burnt.

The cake was not tall enough. I'll use smaller cake tin next time. And, I'll scoop more batter for each layer.

Overall, I am satisfied with the taste of the cake. Just need an improvement on the texture.

And, GOSH, according to myfitnesspal (an app to keep track of daily calorie intakes,) one small slice contains 307 calories! It equals to my one normal meal!

Now I need to burn more calories after eating a few slices.