Kuih Bahulu

By ThingsWeLike

To ease our homesickness+cravings for chinese new year delicacies, we decided to whip up some eggs and flour, to make the silenttiger's grandma's recipe of kuih bahulu. "Kuih" is a malay word that means cakes, pastries, biscuits, cookies etc in english and "bahulu" is the term coined for this recipe we're bringing to you today.
Apparently, kuih bahulu is a traditional Malay sponge cake, but thesilentiger's grandma does endless tins and cans of kuih bahulu for her family during chinese new year..........which is......a very exceptional mix of culture (that explains her wierd mixing of ingredients sometimes, don't be surprise if there's milo, green tea and even savoury bahulu later on)

Ingredients:
1 cup of eggs (roughly 4 to 5 depending on the sizes of the eggs)
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 cup of flour


1. Pour the eggs and sugar into the bowl and whisk till the batter becomes fluffy and white ( the fluffier it is the softer the outcome will be, we have yet to try out whisking machine, so do tell us if it works!)
2. Add in the flour and stir till combine.
3. Stir the batter instead of whisking it till it reaches the ribbon stage as shown in image 4.
4. Heat up the pop cake maker and brush with margarine on the heated surfaces.
5. Pour the batter inside and wait for around 3-5 minutes. (The first batch would be longer compare to  the batches after that, as the maker would be well heated after that)
6. The underside of the bahulu would be golden brown when it's ready, use a skewer to remove from the maker. Leave cool before keeping them into containers.

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And this was the breakfast we had before we made the bahulu. Homemade banana muffins with cappunico and latte. (Gluten overload for the day, maybe?)

I personally felt like a working adult reading newspapers and sipping coffee in the morning, but, in fact, I've got no work nor meetings to attend............not a single important thing to do for the rest of the day. *life as a student on holiday*