Strawberry Honey Comb Cake (Banh Bo Nuong Dau)

 

 

The Vietnamese honey comb cake (banh bo nuong) is one of the many favorite item in our house for dessert/snack.  My family has been requesting for me to make a strawberry flavored honey comb cake, so I decided to experiment, which is normally only made as a pandan flavored cake.  Amazingly it turned out quite tasty and was a big hit with everyone.

 

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups of tapioca flour

4 oz (1/2 cup) of coconut milk

1 bag of Alsa Brand single acting baking powder

6 large eggs

1 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of strawberry extract

30 drops of red food coloring

 

Baking Instructions

Turn on the oven and preheat to 350F.

Combine the flour and baking powder together and set aside.

In a large bowl, lightly mix the eggs and the sugar with a fork.  Remember to mix just enough to homogenize the whites and yolks.  DO NOT over mix, it may cause the cake to be flat.  

Once the eggs and sugar are mixed, stir in the tapioca flour mixture, coconut milk, food coloring and strawberry extract.  Mix well.

 

Brush oil on the baking pan and put it in the oven on the 2nd lowest rack to heat up. The baking pan should be in the oven for about 5 minutes.

Use a basket to strain the mixture into another bowl.  Then use a strainer to strain the mixture into yet another bowl.   Straining the mixture a second time optional, just once should be sufficient, but I like to do it twice.

 

 

Pour the mixture into the hot baking pan from the oven.  You should hear the sizzling sound.  

Bake it for about 10 minutes at 350F. Then reduce the heat to 300F and bake for additional 30 minutes.  If your oven is not a convection oven, bake it for a little bit longer. To test if the cake is done, insert a toothpick and it should come out clean.

Once the cake is done, turn the oven off but leave the cake in the oven for an additional 10 minutes, before removing from the oven.

Once you remove the cake from the oven, let it cool down before cutting and removing from baking pan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIP:  This is a great dessert to bring to a house party/dinner with friends and family.  You can also bake in aluminum foil pan or put on a nice plate as a gift to the party host.