Dish cakes always receive enthusiastic support from the natural colors of various vegetables, including the green from pandan leaves. Today, let’s explore 25+ attractive, delicious, and fragrant pandan leaf cake recipes with the Cooking Tips section of TasteVN!
1 Steamed Pandan Cake
The beginning of today’s list will be a gentle “kick-off” with the steamed pandan cake. Made from simple ingredients that are easy to find everywhere, this dish is one that everyone will be fond of.
Made from rice flour, the cake has a very interesting chewy and smooth texture, especially with the characteristic green color from pandan leaves, complemented by a delicious, sweet, and creamy coconut milk layer, plus a bit of shredded coconut!
Moreover, thanks to the palm sugar, the cake will have a gentle sweetness that is not overpowering at all! With just that, how could one possibly overlook the steamed pandan cake!
2 Pandan Bread
Pandan bread promises to be a wonderful breakfast or snack that you must try at least once. From the first glance, the bread looks incredibly enticing due to being well-proofed!
Aside from its golden color after baking, the bread also features a hint of green from the pandan leaves. The bread carries a distinctive aroma with a soft, fluffy texture, and especially the rich coconut milk filling is just irresistible!
3 Pandan Tube Cake
Each pandan tube cake releases a wonderful aroma of pandan leaves. Moreover, the tube cake is best enjoyed hot, with its eye-catching green color and a bit of the nutty flavor from tapioca, complemented by a bit of rich coconut rice, it’s truly delightful.
4 Pandan sticky rice cake
Pandan sticky rice cake, also commonly known as husband and wife cake, is a dessert that has been around for a long time and often appears during family celebrations.
The pandan sticky rice cake makes a strong impression with its transparent outer layer colored green from pandan leaves. As a result, you can clearly see the mung bean filling and a bit of shredded coconut inside! Don’t rush past this chewy and delicious treat!
5 Pandan jelly cake
Pandan jelly cake seems to be a part of everyone’s childhood. Every afternoon, all the kids would gather at shops to shape colorful pandan jelly cakes into various forms according to their preferences.
Pandan jelly cake, with its soft texture and moderate sweetness combined with the beautiful green color from pandan leaves, is truly wonderful. Surely the little ones will love it.
6 Pandan glutinous rice cake
It’s hard to believe that pandan leaves can be transformed into so many amazing desserts. Next, let’s explore pandan glutinous rice cake.
With the main ingredients being glutinous rice, taro,… and of course, pandan leaves are essential for creating an irresistible fragrance and a mesmerizing green color!
Each glutinous rice cake is tightly wrapped; when you take a bite, the chewy and smooth grains of rice, not too wet nor too dry, blend perfectly with the nutty flavor of taro, plus a hint of creaminess from coconut milk makes it delightful.
7 Pandan Rice Cake
These days, whenever you feel a bit “peckish” and want to snack on something, what could be more perfect than pandan rice cake! Moreover, on cool evenings, enjoying this cake is simply delightful.
Pandan rice cake has a light, fragrant aroma from the pandan leaves that is truly enchanting. At the same time, the green color, the wonderful chewy texture combined with a bit of rich coconut milk, and especially a sprinkle of roasted sesame seeds is simply “out of this world”.
8 Pandan Layer Cake
Whenever I have the chance to visit my hometown, it seems that pandan layer cake is always the most wonderful treat. After a few simple transformations, the result is so delightful that everyone can’t help but want to grab more.
Pandan layer cake, with its many layers combined, looks utterly irresistible. Besides the green from the pandan leaves, there’s also the lovely yellow from mung beans that is incredibly captivating!
What’s more, the cake is chewy, firm, and fragrant, wafting through every corner, truly a “crowd-pleaser”!
9 Honeycomb Pancake with Pandan
Honeycomb pancake with pandan, also known as heart-shaped cake, is made with just a few simple ingredients and must be cooked over charcoal for the most fragrant and flavorful result!
Each pancake is adorned with a lovely green color that is simply delightful! Moreover, the cake is crispy, golden, sweet, and rich, making it impossible to stop eating!
10 Rice Cake with Pandan
True to its name, rice cake with pandan is primarily made from glutinous rice flour but has an irresistible, rich flavor. If you’re still in doubt, what are you waiting for? Let’s get cooking!
The rice cake has a slightly transparent green color that is truly “heartwarming,” and it also has a chewy, soft, and pleasantly sweet taste! This is indeed a wonderful cake to change up the flavors every weekend!
11 Pandan Leaf Cake
Although we have already gone through many different wonderful cakes made from pandan leaves, the list does not stop here, so please do not rush to leave!
Up next is the appearance of the pandan leaf cake, which can be transformed into many different types of fillings, but they all share one common point: they are delicious to the point of being hard to describe in words.
Apart from the sweet and rich coconut filling, you can also confidently showcase your skills by making mung bean or green bean fillings! It will definitely be fantastic when combined with the soft and chewy cake skin!
12 Pandan Leaf Sponge Cake
Surely there is no need to introduce the pandan leaf sponge cake too much, as the sponge cake has always been a part of the lives of our people.
The highlight of the pandan leaf sponge cake is that, in addition to the fluffy and sweet cake base that is not dry at all, you can also combine it with a little fresh cream to elevate the delicious flavor of the cake!
13 Pandan Leaf Bun
Perhaps the pandan leaf bun is the most unique cake on our list today. Because it can be transformed into a savory bun that even sweet buns also hold a deep connection to!
Depending on your preferences, you can choose to make fillings such as coconut milk, taro, or meat.
Moreover, the cake has a dough that is wrapped in a very attractive green color, combined with the appealing filling, making it a wonderful breakfast or snack!
At any party or gathering to pay homage to our ancestors, to make the solemnity more complete, how can we not mention the pandan leaf cookies!
After completion, the green cookies have a soft, chewy outer layer, combined with a filling that features grated coconut and peanuts!
Moreover, you will absolutely love the cookies because they use palm sugar, resulting in a light sweetness that is not overly intense.
15 Pandan leaf mochi
Next, TasteVN will immediately reveal the super delicious and attractive pandan leaf mochi recipe with a very simple way to make it.
The mochi has a light green outer layer that is chewy and very “fun to eat.” Additionally, the filling has a slightly nutty flavor from mung beans mixed with the creamy richness of coconut milk. This combination is truly “one of a kind.”
16 Pandan leaf tai yên cake
One of the rustic, familiar cakes in the kitchen for those who are far from home is the pandan leaf tai yên cake. To satisfy that longing, let’s quickly save the recipe below with TasteVN!
Not overly complicated, but the tai yên cake has an extraordinary charm. The cake features a crispy outer edge that combines with the fragrant dough of pandan leaves, especially alongside a bit of chewiness, softness, and creaminess that is extremely interesting.
17 Pork Ear Cake with Pandan Leaves
Just hearing the name of this cake, surely everyone knows it, right? But today let’s add a little twist with pandan leaves to create a completely different cake!
Pork ear cake with pandan leaves has a quite interesting yet simple preparation method. The result is hot, fragrant slices of cake that are appealing, eye-catching, and crispy on the tongue! Let’s get cooking!
18 Pandan Crepe
Pandan crepe with its eye-catching green wrapper and distinctive aroma will surely make you fall in love.
But how can we overlook the rich, sweet filling from banana cream, durian cream, or pumpkin? This perfect combination is truly indescribably “elevating.”
19 Pandan Tart
Does anyone feel restless and nostalgic every time they see a tart? Not only is the crust baked to a golden crisp, but it also has a very memorable pandan egg filling!
From afar, the fragrant smell of unsalted butter will immediately attract you to look right away. Biting into it, the crispy crust blends with the rich, buttery egg filling, and with a bit of grated coconut, what more could you want!
20 Pandan Cake
Holding a hot and fragrant pandan cake with the aromatic scent of white sesame wafting is indeed intoxicating, surely no one can resist it, right?
Tearing off a piece reveals the soft and chewy texture of the eye-catching green cake skin combined with the enticing flavor on the tip of the tongue, truly worth the effort to find and buy.
21 Steamed Rice Cake
For the “foodie” enthusiasts, how can they overlook the simple yet perfectly delightful combination of steamed rice cake with pandan leaf?
The steamed rice cake is filled with so many bamboo roots that just looking at it is captivating! Not only that, but alongside the gentle green color is the softness of each layer of cake.
With each bite, the sweet, fatty, and nutty flavor will entice you to keep going without being able to stop.
22 Sticky Rice Cake
Every year, during the Lunar New Year, everyone eagerly awaits to enjoy traditional dishes made by the skilled hands of our people. Among them, how can we miss sticky rice cake?
The traditional sticky rice cake, tightly wrapped with banana leaves, is extremely enticing! Each grain of glutinous rice soaked in pandan juice has a truly mesmerizing green color.
Above all, we must mention the attractive filling made from mung beans, pork belly as well! Let’s make it right away for the family to enjoy!
23 Pandan Waffles
If the honeycomb cake has made your heart flutter, then TasteVN is sure that the unique twist with pandan waffles will not disappoint you either!
Waffles with the cake batter mixed with pandan leaves, durian brings an aromatic fragrance, and the colors are incredibly enticing! Additionally, the cake is soft and chewy, sweet and delicious, truly you can eat it forever without knowing what it means to feel bored.
24 Pandan Sticky Rice Cake
During the Duan Ngo Festival, our people have a tradition of savoring sticky rice cake to feel complete. Therefore, today TasteVN will suggest to everyone the pandan sticky rice cake to showcase your skills!
Perhaps the crucial step that determines the success of the sticky rice cake is the wrapping process. Because you need to wrap it tightly, only then will the end product be firm.
Moreover, each grain of sticky rice has an eye-catching green color, smooth and chewy, combined with the fragrant mung bean filling, plus a bit of crunchy sweet coconut that will definitely make you reluctant to part with it.
25 Pandan Rice Rolls
Next, TasteVN will immediately reveal to you the unique flavor change from a wonderful breakfast dish cherished by many, which is none other than pandan rice rolls!
Depending on your preference, you can enjoy savory or sweet bánh cuốn, both are perfect. The cake’s outer layer is adorned with a captivating green color from pandan leaves, and the filling is rich in flavor or coconut milk that is creamy, and before long, this will become your favorite dish!
26 Pandan Mochi Cake
If in the past during the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone could only enjoy the characteristic mooncake. However, now you can immediately try the pandan mochi cake to create something special for your loved ones.
Just a casual glance, the mochi with its chewy texture and the attractive green color of pandan leaves will captivate you.
Moreover, the filling is rich, sweet from mung beans, and durian is truly “one of a kind”.
27 Pandan Flan
One of the desserts that everyone goes crazy for just by mentioning its name is flan. Besides traditional flan, mango flan,… today TasteVN invites you to add the pandan flan to your collection.
Normally, flan already has a fragrant aroma of eggs! But now, when combined with pandan leaves, not only does it gain color, but the fragrance also becomes much more elevated.
Add some ice and coffee, then savor the creamy, sweet flan!
28 Bánh bà lai
Finally, the bánh bà lai – a specialty of Phan Thiết will be the perfect candidate to conclude our list today. Not only is it wonderful in terms of visual appeal, but its deliciousness is equally impressive.
From familiar, rustic ingredients of the S-shaped land, the final product is a cake with 3 contrasting layers that is very eye-catching.
Cacao has a mildly bitter taste blended with the creaminess from milk and the distinctive flavor from pandan leaves, which is truly wonderful!
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With 25+ pandan cake recipes in just a moment, I hope you can add many “vibrant” cakes with a mesmerizing green color to your collection! Wish you success.
