Around the World in Valentine’s Day Desserts
| February 11, 2019
9. Kueh Lapis
Kueh Lapis is a popular Indonesian confection that’s extremely time consuming to make but is worth every second.
The batter is simple enough to make since it’s just a lot of butter, eggs, flour, and sweetened condensed milk, but it gets complicated when it comes time to put it together. The cake is made up of multiple thin layers, which are baked one by one. The first layer takes about 5-7 minutes to bake, then slowly, the chef adds a scoop of batter to the previous baked layer, smooths it out, and puts it back in the oven. This happens at least 15 times, then the cake is left at room temperature to cool before being served.
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