Indonesian Traditional Cakes: Colorful Snow Ball Cake ( klepon )

By tempestteapot

Ingredients

• Cake colouring (choose your fave colour)
• 50 gr of brown palm sugar (sliced)
• Boiling water
• 115 gr of gloutious rice flour
• 60 gr of potatoes (one medium size potato)
• 1 teasp of salt
• 100 gr of coconut gratin (steamed)

Details

Adapted from strawberrycream84.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

How to prepare:
• Boil or steam the potatoes. Peel the skin then smash them until smooth.
• Mix the flour with the potatoes and 1/2 tea sp of salt. Devide the dough into two or depends on how many colours do you want to create.


creating marbles
• Add the colouring in the dough. Add water little by little while you mix it until the dough is compact and not sticky (use your hand for better result)
• Take one table spoon of the dough, flat it then put some sliced palm sugar. Cover the palm sugar with the dough then roll it until it become a marble. Do it until you finish all the dough.


• Boil water in a medium boiler, meanwhile steam the coconut gratin by adding 1/2 tea sp of salt.

Boil the marbles
• Put in the marbles in to the boiling water. When the marbles float, pick them up and drain. Then rolled them in the steam coconut gratin.
• It’s ready!
Can be served warm or cold.