We received this cake from a Malay friend who got it from her home-baking relative as a festive gift for Ramadan. Unfortunately, her relative does not sell this commercially, and I couldn't find any other place selling anything similar online despite trying. Still, it is such a good idea, and it should be simple enough for home bakers to try, so I thought to post about it. While there was no official name for this cake, I felt it was totally like an Ondeh Ondeh Marble Cake, or a Pandan Gula Melaka Marble Cake. (Even from the name, you can imagine that it has all the makings of something really awesome.) Ondeh Ondeh refers to the Malay dessert made of pandan-flavoured glutinous rice balls (a local type of mochi) filled with melted gula melaka (a type of Southeast Asian palm sugar) and coated in freshly shaved coconut. The green streaks you see in the 2nd photo below are the pandan-flavoured batter, while the dark brown streaks are the gula melaka flavoured batter. First of all, I...
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