Ondeh-Ondeh Lava Cake
Malaysians should be familiar with Ondeh-Ondeh, right? I will make it into a cake, a small Ondeh-Ondeh cake with lava palm sugar filling.

- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 Egg Yolks (1 egg with a shell about 65g)
- 45 g Cake Flour
- 25 g Pandan Extract
- 10 g Milk Powder (can be omitted)
- 25 g Corn Oil/Cooking Oil/Butter
- 2 Egg White
- 20 g Caster Sugar
- 0.25 tsp Lemon Juice/White Vinegar
- 40 g Palm Sugar
- 100 g Water
- 5 g Corn Starch
- 1 Pandan Leaf
- 30 g Fresh Grated Coconut
- 0.5 tsp Salt
Instructions
- 1
Add some salt to the shredded coconut and fry until fragrant in a dry pan. Put it in a bowl and let it cool for later use.
- 2
Cook the palm sugar until boiled and melted with water and pandan leaves, add a little water to the corn starch and mix well, then pour it into the palm sugar water and mix well. Put it in a bowl and let it cool before putting it in the refrigerator for later use.
- 3
Add pandan extract, corn oil, and egg yolk to a bowl and mix well.
- 4
Add the sifted cake flour and milk powder to the egg yolk bowl, and mix until there is no dry powder.
- 5
Put the egg whites into a large bowl free of oil and water, and add lemon juice or white vinegar.
- 6
Beat the egg whites at high speed with a whisk until the egg whites appear coarsely foamed, then add caster sugar in 3 portions to beat the egg whites until stiff peak.
- 7
Scoop the meringue into the egg yolk batter and mix evenly.
- 8
Pour the evenly mixed batter into a small bowl and use chopsticks to flatten the batter.
- 9
Put it into the boiling steamer. Close the lid of the pot diagonally to leave a gap, steam on medium heat for 20 minutes, turn off the heat and wait for 2 minutes before taking it out.
- 10
Use a small spoon to gently push along the mold and then pull it out of the mold.
- 11
Put the iced lava palm sugar into the piping bag, then insert it into the cake and press until it is full or as much as you like.
- 12
Spread the grated coconut, cut a small piece of pandan leaf, and insert the cake for decoration. The cute Ondeh Ondeh cake is complete!