When mentioning dishes made from gấc, people often only remember the fragrant sticky rice with gấc. Therefore, in today’s Cooking Tips section, TasteVN will refresh your cooking notebook with 8 gấc cakes with an attractive orange-red color and delicious, appealing flavors!
1 Steamed Gac Cake
The round, plump steamed gac cakes with their eye-catching orange-red color will be the “opening” dish for today’s incredibly vibrant list that TasteVN wants to introduce to you!
The cake skin is chewy, soft, and fragrant with the distinctive flavor of gac. A light bite will let you feel the sweetness of gac along with the crunchiness of toasted sesame, blended with the soft and smooth filling of mung bean, creating an irresistible taste. This dish is even better when enjoyed with hot tea!
2 Gac Xu Xe Cake
Xu xe cake is a square-shaped cake with a green skin that you can easily see in the traditional wedding trays of Vietnamese people. However, today Điện máy will introduce you to another variation of the xu xe cake, which is the gac xu xe cake that is just as appealing!
The gac xu xe cake has an eye-catching red color, characteristic of gac. The shiny, translucent skin allows you to see the “hazy” yellow filling inside. Pulling a piece of cake, you can feel the chewy texture of the skin; once in your mouth, the sweet, nutty flavor melts on your tongue, making you fall in love from the very first taste.
3 Gac Cake Wrapped in Banana Leaves
With just a few simple steps and ingredients, you can make gac cakes wrapped in banana leaves yourself, surprising your family with your skillfulness.
Opening the banana leaf package reveals a gentle aroma of banana leaves and gac blending together. Biting into the soft, chewy gac cake, with a bit of crunch from the toasted sesame, is delightful. The filling is a combination of mung bean and coconut rice, rich, sweet, making it hard not to fall in love, right?!
4 Gac Sticky Rice Cake
If you are a fan of the dish sticky rice cake filled with Vietnamese pork sausage, then you definitely cannot miss the “upgraded” version of that sticky rice cake, which is gac sticky rice cake.
The cake skin is chewy, sweet, and fragrant with gac, while the filling inside is soft-cooked mung beans mixed with grated coconut, giving a pleasant texture in your mouth. When eating, just take it out, steam it hot, and enjoy. Additionally, if you don’t want to eat it with mung bean filling, you can just make the cake skin and pair it with sausage, which is equally delicious!
5 Gac Pyramid Cake
Gac pyramid cake is wrapped in banana leaves with a conical shape and will be the next dish you need to head to the kitchen to try!
Unlike other gac cakes that only extract the gac juice for coloring, the skin of the gac pyramid cake includes both the gac flesh mixed in, so when you eat it, you will experience the rich sweetness and fragrant aroma of gac combined with soft glutinous rice that absorbs the color evenly. The mung bean filling is cooked to a smooth and sticky consistency, making it hard to stop eating!
6 Gac Pork Skin Cake
Gac pork skin cake is rolled up resembling a snail shell with an enchanting orange color, and it will conquer all taste buds in your family from children to adults.
The cake skin is chewy, soft, and slightly glossy, rolled with smooth and sweet mung bean filling. Not only is it delicious, but the method of making this cake is also extremely easy. Let’s get started!
7 Gac and mung bean cake
The gac and mung bean cake is shaped like a tomato, with the body being a bright orange color from the gac, and the stem made from green tea powder, which is very eye-catching.
The gac and mung bean cake is steamed just until cooked, so the cake skin retains its chewy texture along with a slight sweetness from glutinous rice flour. The mung beans inside are rolled into balls, wrapped inside. Taking a bite, the sweet and fragrant flavor fills your mouth, making you nod in approval as you eat.
8 Gac steamed bun
Another beautifully shaped cake that will conclude today’s list is the gac steamed bun.
The gac steamed bun is made to look like a small pumpkin, with a soft, fragrant, and light fluffy skin. When eaten, it has a bit of creaminess from coconut milk. Especially, the steamed bun has no filling, so you can eat as many as you like without worrying about getting full!
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Hopefully, based on the article summarizing 8 ways to make gac cake delicious and appealing with super quick and simple steps from TasteVN, it will help you have more special options for your family!
