Kueh Lapis(Steamed Layer Cake)

Kueh Lapis or nine layer dessert, one of the delicious kuih muih in Malaysia. We can choose whatever colour we like to make this dessert look fantastic. The children love it because they can peeling each layer with different coloured. My monster request to have more layer to peel next time like 15 to 18 layer.

Adapted from: Nasi Lemak Lover
(with minor changes of the colour layer)

400 ml water
70 gm coarse sugar
5 pandan leaves, knotted
400 ml coconut milk (I'm not using fresh coconut milk, just from can)
180 gm rice flour
120 gm tapioca flour

Red food colouring
Green food colouring

Method:

1. Boil water, sugar, pandan leaves and coconut milk until sugar dissolved. Discard pandan leaves and set aside to cool completely.
2. Add in rice flour and tapioca flour, stir to mix well. Strain the batter.
3. Grease a 7" steam pan with a little oil. Place the pan in a steamer and steam until hot. 
4. Divide batter into 3 portions, measure by scale to make sure all the portions is even.
5. Add in food colouring to 2 portion. The last is plain batter.
6. Pour 1st layer with green batter into steam pan, and steam for 3 minutes over medium high heat.(around 120++gm for each layer)
7. Pour 2nd layer with white batter into steam pan, and steam for 3 minutes.
8. Pour 3rd layer with red batter into steam pan, and steam for 3 minutes.
9. Repeat until all 8 layers set. Add a drop of red food colouring to let red batter to become dark pink batter and steam for 15 minutes.
10. Leave the kueh to cool completely (take about 6 hours) at room temperature before cutting (use a plastic knife to cut).