Bolu Kukus

It is so difficult to make my husband to love Asian desserts. I notice that the French are chauvinist when it comes to their dessert and wine, they think that theirs are the best. Mr. Gorilla does not like something with jelly such as pudding, or agar-agar thing, and then he is not a big fan (or i can say dislike?) the relish of glutinous rice flour in the dessert, so only pisang goreng, kolak pisang, kue lapis legit (i have never tried making this, i heard it is sooooo difficult!) which stay as my chance to make him to like Indonesian dessert. But there is another dessert that he likes when i made it a year ago, Bolu Kukus muffin, one of the famous snack cake in Indonesia, which resembles a lot to muffin or cup cake. You can always easily find this cake everywhere in Indonesia.

Well this post is an old post, that i have on my old blog (in Indonesian) more than a year ago. Someone told me that she did not succeed making it, so i visited my old blog. It was my first time and I hope it is not my last time making it. Apparently it is quite difficult to make it, as many people does not have the blooming cake result in the end, but there is only one secret: do not open the lid of your steamer during the steam process. I used Melani's, (my friend) recipe to make it. I repost here and translate it into English. You will need the special molds to make it, (which picture she posted on her site) i bought 'em on the net, but i forgot which site. It was a Dutch site, quite expensive, but i was so eager to make it thus it was worth it!

Ingredients:

• 5 egg yolks
• 1 white egg
• 250 gr sugar
• 250 gr flour
• 125 ml sprite
• chocolate powder or other colourant
• bread paper, cut in squares (size enough to be put inside the mould)
  

Directions:

1. mix the eggs together with sugar until thick and well developed
2. Add the flour and the soda, part by part (not all once), and stir well.
3. Take half (or less) of the dough, and add the chocolate powder.
4. Pose the bread paper inside the moulds
5. Fill them with the white dough, and end it with the chocolate dough on top
6. Heat your steamer until the water boiled.
7. Cover it with a napkin, let it steam during 20 minutes (at this point i dont really remember if i really follow the recipe like it is written, because you know that i don't like doing it.... i don't remember if i just cover it with napkins, or i used the lid of the steamer to cover it and had it wraped with a napkin to avoid the steam fall down to the dough - however vaguelly i remember that i really followed the recipe).
   

Update March 2010:
I made this cake again, just before i went to Belgium to visit an Indonesian friend who lives there. I made her this, and i made it just having the casserole closed with napkins, with no lid above it. And it works.