Being Filipino, it is natural for us to have a passion for cooking and eating "kakanin". In fact, "kakanin" is also one of the ways to earn money for us locals."Kakanin" is what we name for the various types of rice cakes made from glutinous rice or sticky rice and even different kinds of flour. By the way, Kakanin or rice cake is also derived from two words which are kain which means eat, and kanin which means rice.
During the times when I don't have a formal job yet, I usually make different kinds of rice cakes. Sometimes I used to sell it around my neighbors and also post it online and usually, I make it as a snack at home. To be honest, I also shared it in my previous blogs here at HIVE if some of you notice.
And since I'm already busy at work, I also miss eating kakanin, so when I saw one of my friends selling kakanin online, I messaged them and that's when I ordered a set.
Fortunately, I was very happy that I decided to buy this set from her because aside from its not being very expensive I was also able to taste five kinds of kakanin in a box for just ₱100 or $1.81.
So let me introduce you to these rice cakes.
- First I have here the Masi. These glutinous rice balls are filled with roasted crushed peanuts and muscovado sugar but in their style, they are coated with desiccated coconut which is also new to me. ☺
- Next is the Puto cheese. It is either made of rice flour or all-purpose flour steamed cake. Other ingredients are sugar baking powder, milk, butter/oil, and egg, and once done it is topped with cheese.
- This one is what we call Pitsi-pitsi it is also made from glutinous rice flour or you can also use cassava flour mixed with sugar and lye water. For the coating is cheese.
- The fourth one is what we call Palitaw. The ingredients for making it are glutinous rice flour, white sugar, and water. And for its coating, it could be just grated coconut and sugar but here they used sesame seeds.
The fifth one is my favorite. This is the cassava cake. It cannot be denied that it is made of grated cassava, coconut milk, and condensed milk. Usually, it has custard layer toppings and this time they made another style like using cheese for toppings.
Imagine all that stuff for ₱100 or equivalent to $1.81 that I bought. It's filling and worth what I paid for. Next time I go home when I have time I will cook at least one rice cake because homemade food is also delicious and the best.
So, how is it? Did you like any of the rice cakes I introduced to you? or do we have similar recipes too? 🙂