The South is one of the cradles nurturing the diverse cuisine of the Vietnamese people with many traditional cakes that are delicious and varied. Today, the Cooking Tips section will go over 20+ simple ways to make traditional Southern cakes to treat the family!
1 Bánh tét
Bánh tét is a traditional cake of the Southern people that is indispensable during the Tet holidays. Not stopping there, this traditional cake also wins the hearts of many foreign tourists when enjoyed.
Similar to bánh chưng, traditional bánh tét is also made from familiar ingredients such as sticky rice, mung beans, and pork.
The finished product has a bright green color and a fragrant banana leaf aroma, with sticky rice, creamy mung beans combined with the rich taste of belly pork making it extremely delicious. Besides mung bean filling, you can also replace it with banana or salted egg filling for an intense flavor!
2 Bánh bò
Bánh bò is one of the beloved childhood cakes of many people, from adults to children, making anyone who has tasted it want to enjoy it many more times.
This cake is mainly made from rice flour, sugar, and yeast, which sounds simple but the process is quite elaborate and the flavor is irresistibly delicious.
The standard bánh bò will have many bamboo roots inside, a gentle aroma of yeast, a chewy and airy texture, along with a moderate sweetness. All of this combines to awaken all the senses.
3 Steamed Layer Cake
Steamed layer cake is a very famous snack in the morning markets of the southern provinces. This sweet cake is used in breakfast, desserts, and is very diverse.
When eating, you will feel the chewy texture of the outer layer made from tapioca flour, along with the unique aroma of pandan leaves, and the mung bean filling inside that is nutty and incredibly sweet and appealing.
4 Baked Banana Cake
Baked banana cake is a rustic snack that holds the childhood memories of many people. Let’s take a look at a few simple and quick ways to make baked banana cake with TasteVN, but with an incredibly delicious flavor!
Each piece of baked banana cake when finished has a beautiful golden color, fragrant, sweet, and extremely soft and fluffy, making it very appealing. Quickly save this recipe to show off your skills and make it for the whole family to enjoy!
5 Baked Cassava Cake
Baked cassava cake is a rustic and familiar dish not only for many families in the South but also loved by many tourists across the country.
This cake has a beautiful golden color, made from grated cassava and soft, chewy tapioca flour, combined with the rich sweetness of mung beans and the creamy flavor of coconut milk, making it extremely delicious.
6 Moringa Leaf and Jackfruit Leaf Cake
To continue exploring the characteristic cakes of the South, let’s check out the recipe for the unique and delicious moringa leaf and jackfruit leaf cake with TasteVN.
The distinctive feature of these cakes is that they are made from fragrant rice flour, tapioca flour, and glutinous rice flour wrapped in fresh jackfruit and moringa leaves. When eaten, drizzle a little coconut milk to enhance the appealing flavor of this dish.
7 Rice Paper (Tay Ninh Rice Paper, Dew Dried Rice Paper,…)
If you have the chance to visit Tay Ninh, it would be a miss to overlook Tay Ninh rice paper or dew dried rice paper!
Rice paper is considered the culinary essence of the people of Tay Ninh in particular and the South in general, and it has become famous throughout the country.
Each beautiful, round, smooth, and fragrant rice paper is one of the essential ingredients in the mixed rice paper dishes or grilled rice paper that are so enticing!
8 Tằm cake
Sweet tằm cake
Do you know what the sweet tằm cake – a traditional cake from the South is made of? If not, let’s take a look at a few simple suggestions below with TasteVN!
The chewy cassava tằm cake combined with the rich taste of coconut milk and a layer of salty and sweet peanut sprinkle on top enhances the flavor of the dish incredibly.
Salty tằm cake
In addition to the sweet tằm cake, the provinces in the Southwestern region are also famous for the salty tằm cake or tằm bì with a unique flavor that anyone who has tasted it will remember forever.
The fragrant tằm cake, with its chewy texture, paired with tender meat soaked in rich flavors, creates an incredibly appealing dish. Let’s get into the kitchen and show off your skills to make this dish for the family!
9 Pandan tube cake
If you are a fan of sweet cakes, then the pandan tube cake with its delicious and attractive flavor will be a wonderful suggestion for you!
The aroma of pandan leaves is fragrant, the cake is fluffy, soft, and chewy, with a sweet, rich, and warm taste. Be sure to check out the detailed recipe below!
10 Cống cake
This cống cake is definitely familiar to those in the South, especially in Sóc Trăng, right? Let’s check out how to make this delicious dish with TasteVN!
Cống cake is characterized by its fragrant crispiness, the buttery taste of mung beans and taro, and the sweet and aromatic stir-fried shrimp and meat. This dish must be served with sweet and sour fish sauce, along with fresh herbs like lettuce, water spinach,… to achieve the authentic flavor!
11 Pia cake
Next, we have a traditional, characteristic, and familiar cake from Soc Trang that is absolutely delicious: the pia cake.
The cake has a soft, fluffy crust with a sweet, buttery mung bean filling, fragrant durian, and salty, creamy salted egg that makes anyone who has tasted it once remember it forever.
12 Layered rice cake
With a simple and quick preparation method, you won’t find it hard to enjoy the authentic flavor of layered pandan rice cake at home! Let’s take a look at the suggestion below and roll up your sleeves to cook together!
The layered pandan rice cake reaches perfection when completed, showcasing beautiful green and white stripes along with the distinctive aroma of pandan leaves.
When the cake is in your mouth, you will immediately feel the chewy, crispy, and soft texture combined with the rich coconut flavor and the sweet aroma from the syrup, which is incredibly enticing.
13 Filter cake
Filter cake is the next suggestion that TasteVN would like to introduce to you in today’s list of delicious traditional dishes.
The filter cake is chewy, fragrant with pandan leaves, eaten with rich coconut cream and a few refreshing ice cubes. Discover the recipe for this filter cake to relive a beautiful and nostalgic childhood!
14 Sticky rice cake
Sticky rice cake is a traditional dish, familiar to the rural waterway regions of the South, and is loved by many for its soft, chewy crust and rich filling of mung beans, fatty pork belly, and appealing salted egg.
This cake can be enjoyed as a snack or used for a fancy meal, making it quite suitable!
15 Spicy Cake
On weekends, treat your family to this unique specialty cake that is incredibly delicious called spicy cake!
The cake is golden and crispy on the outside, with soft and chewy cassava inside, absorbing rich flavors and a mild spiciness from the chili that is very stimulating to the taste buds. On a dull lunchtime, having a delicious, hot spicy cake would be wonderful.
16 Crispy Cake
The crispy cake is crunchy and attractively golden brown, promising to delight all family members, especially children.
This cake is made from golden-fried cassava, crispy and crunchy to the ear, coated with a thin layer of sweet, slightly sour caramel which is very tasty. Get in the kitchen and try it out now!
17 Savory Pancake
Savory pancake is a dish with its own regional characteristics. Unlike other places, southern savory pancakes are usually larger, with more filling and a greater variety of fillings than elsewhere.
The savory pancake has a golden, crispy outer layer, with a generous filling of shrimp and meat, and a buttery flavor from mung beans. This dish is rolled with lettuce, mustard greens, herbs, and dipped in sweet and sour fish sauce, making it absolutely delicious!
18 Orange Cake, Round Cake
If you grew up in the southwestern provinces, you are surely familiar with the golden orange cakes and round cakes, right?
The characteristic of these cakes is their crispy and airy texture that lasts a long time, not easily becoming soft like other cakes, and their incredibly delicious flavor.
The round orange cake is evenly shaped, encasing a sweet and nutty mung bean filling inside, while the round cake is flat and ring-shaped, without filling. Both types are covered with a thin layer of sweet candy and fragrant roasted sesame on the outside,
19 Steamed Rice Cake with Coconut and Mung Bean Filling
Besides the sticky rice cake, the steamed rice cake with coconut and mung bean filling is also a traditional dish that has existed for a long time and is very popular among the people in the South.
The steamed rice cake has a soft, chewy outer layer, fragrant with pandan leaves, while the filling inside has a moderate sweetness, a nutty flavor from mung beans, and a fatty, chewy texture from shredded coconut, stimulating your taste buds and making you want to eat endlessly.
20 Gan Cake
Gan cake is a rather unique and novel dish for many people, but TasteVN believes that if you have the chance to try it, you will fall in love with this cake!
Chewing each soft and fluffy piece, lightly fragrant with star anise and sweet flavors melting in your mouth, perfectly blended with mildly bitter cocoa and rich coconut cream is simply irresistible.
21 Offering Cake
Offering cake, although made from simple, rustic rice flour, is loved by many people and often appears on many special occasions for the people of the Southern region.
Each offering cake is long and emits a fragrant aroma of banana leaves. When eaten, you will feel the chewy texture of the rice flour and the rich flavor of coconut cream, creating an incredibly delicious and appealing taste.
22 Bird’s Nest Cake
Equally enticing as any of the suggestions above, bird’s nest cake is the final promising candidate that TasteVN wants to introduce to readers in today’s article.
The cake has a bright yellow color and an enticing aroma. When eaten, you will experience the crispness of the outer edge, the chewy softness inside, and the incredibly appealing fragrant coconut cream.
Hopefully, with 20+ how to make traditional southern cakes that are easy to make and delicious shared by Điện máy XANH, your menu will become rich and colorful. Get into the kitchen and start right away, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
