This recipe is for the Ingredients:
-300g basic pau starter (use all purpose flour instead of cake flour)
-240g sugar
-4 eggs (200g)
-60g cake flour
-1 tbs custard powder (optional)
-30g oil
-1 tsp double acting baking powder
-1/2 tsp vinegar
-dash of lye water (about ¼ tsp)
What to Do:
Mix together by hand, sugar and pau starter until sugar dissolves. Then add eggs one at a time, followed by the addition of oil, custard powder, flour, vinegar, lye and baking powder; mix until smooth. Grease an 8” cake pan with some oil. Steam the empty pan for 5 mins before pouring in batter. Steam cake on high heat, lifting the lid to release excess steam every 10 mins. until done (about 30-40 mins).
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u r right. this is definitely Chinese. The difference is in the vinegar. For actual MA LAI Ko in malaysia, theu used brown sugar or palm sugar and thus darker.
I was so ignorance, since young, when I heard this kueh being called "ma lai kor" I relate it to "malay cake" in cantonese.
jc
foodcrazee,
thanks for clarifying. Does the Malay version taste like the chinese version at all?
jc,
I was like you too....still don't know why it's called Malay cake when the cake is actually chinese. weird huh?
tt
i was just about to ask you about ma lai koh cos i was asked if i had one that has big big holes. i asked around and donlung gave me a recipe to try. i did not like it cos it was too yeasty. after mixing in starter dough, mixture with eggs is to rest for another 4 hrs of which i said that if you are making this in the tropics, won't the eggs go bad.
your recipe looks more promising. the original should be made with lard and caramel.
tt,
This is definitely a Chinese cake. I read somewhere it is so called due to the brown colour of the cake which resembles the dark skin of Malay people, don't know how true it is though ;p
looks like ma lai ko fever is on...
a different version from fonia, looks delicious too.
Yup, looks delicious to me as well!
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Everything on your site looks delicious! Do you have a recipe for a sweet called com ruou?
Hi,
CAKE IS VERY YUMMY.
VINEELA
Hi Wow, this one is sure gonna make it's way into my list of must tries...Thanks for this yummy steamed recipe :)
Hiya, I'm new here, happened upon your site when searching for a recipe for ma lai koe. yours definitely looks promising. However, being an amateur cook, I was a little confused with the pau starter part of the recipe. Do you mix it into a dough first and let it rise first and then measure it and work in the rest of the ingredients? If so, how do you dissolve sugar into dough? Or do you keep everything separate and mix it that way? Please help, Thank you!
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PT
PT,
to answer you question about the pau starter part.
-make pau starter according to its recipe (recipe is linked) then use that starter to make the cake.
-sugar is very submissive to liquids, it will begin to "melt" as soon as it comes in contact with a liquid. The pau starter contains liquid, thus, dissolving the sugar in the starter dough is easier then you may think. A
s always, play with your food, don’t be afraid to try new things and make mistakes it's the best way to learn!
When I was young, I thought this cake was made by horses. Seriously!
what? why?
do u know where i can buy the custard powder and what kind is it? and for the vinegar...what kind of vinegar i should use? since there are so many kinds..and i wonder about the dash of lye water? what is it? and can u tell me where i can but it, okay. thank you.
you can find all the ingredients at well stocked asian grocery stores. Play with your food! why not experiment with different kinds of vinegar and figure out which works best?
Thanks for your yummy and easy recipes, I'm a fans of your blog. I'm a malaysian
chinese whose now living in Netherlands.
I can solve your clue --hong kong style Mah Lai Koh is different with Malaysian Mah Lai koh.Here you are ---http://jodelibakery.netfirms.com/. The reason hong kong people say Mah Lai koh because in the past Mah lai Koh is
brown colour,not yellow one. While Malays has brown skin, Koh is mean cake and Mah Lai is mean Malays.Malaysian style Mah Lai Koh use santan(coconut milk) in stead of water or other liquids. Can I ask you a question, why my Mah Lai KOh has no smooth surface? Help me please.....I am a food lover, likes to do experiment with my food.
probably because you steamed it too long or because there's too much leavening in the batter or too much flour.
Thank you,I'm looking for this cake long time ago.Do you now how to make Bo Bia Ngot ?
i fell in love with a green version of malaiko. i found it in this one bakery in the chinatown in paris. it definitely tasted different from the vanilla-colored version. any ideas what they could've added?
probably pandan
Hi Hoang Tam ,
-dash of lye water
i do not know what is it /
please help me , i realy want to try to do this cake .
thanks !
Hi!! HT
I would like to know where to buy the custard powder!! Can't find it where I live please help thanks. Julie
Julie,
your best bet would to search/buy it online.
Thank you, chị HT have a mery Xmas and a wonderful new year.