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Steamed Vegan Rice Cakes (Banh Bo Hap)

Total Time
1h 10m
18m prep · 52m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

Easy recipe for steamed rice cake, banh bo hap, a spongy, sweet, and gorgeous-looking vegan dessert. It costs next to nothing to make and fun for the kids.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups rice flour
  • 2 cups lukewarm water
  • 1 , 14 ounce
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 4 teaspoons tapioca starch
  • 1.5 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 0.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 0.25 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons oil , or as needed

Instructions

  1. 1

    Whisk rice flour, water, coconut milk, sugar, tapioca starch, yeast, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl until smooth. Cover with a lid. Let batter rest until air bubbles rise to the surface, about 2 hours. Stir well.

  2. 2

    Grease cake molds with oil. Place a steamer insert into a saucepan and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Place cake molds on top and pour batter into each, leaving 1 3/4 inches of space at the top for rising. Bring water to a boil. Cover and steam until a toothpick inserted into a cake comes out clean, about 10 minutes.

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