Malaysia

Kuih bahulu

Name: Kuih bahulu
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Malaysian
Ingredients: 3 egg; 1/2 cup sugar; 3/4 cup plus 1 tbsp maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); Cooking oil (vegetable oil), for brushing the moulds

Tiny flower sponges, crisp outside and cloud soft inside. Hari Raya in a tin.

45 minTime

4 gProtein each

mildSpice

Festive mini sponges2 chapters · 1 min read

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

132kcal

4 gprotein

0 gfibre

45minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Egg3

Sugar½ cup

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)¾ cup plus 1 tbsp

Baking powder½ tsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)½ tsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for brushing the moulds

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 200 C and put a bahulu mould or mini muffin tray inside to get very hot.
2Beat the eggs and sugar on high until very thick and pale.
3Sift in the maida and baking powder in three goes, folding gently, then fold in the vanilla.
4Brush the hot moulds with oil, fill to the brim and bake.
5Pop them out straight away and cool on a rack. Store in an airtight jar.

Serve it like this

Pile them in a small heap on a plate and serve with hot tea or coffee.

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Kuih bahulu

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