Steamed Coconut Rice cakes (Gluten, Egg, Dairy Free)

[containergirl]

Steamed Coconut Rice cakes

Ingredients
210g Rice flour
200ml Coconut milk
160ml Boiling water
80 - 100g sugar
1/4 tsp Vanilla essence
1 tbsp dry yeast

Mix flour, water, coconut milk, sugar and vanilla (speed 4ish for a few seconds).  Transfer to a bowl and set aside for an hour or more (overnight would be fine). 
Add yeast.  Leave to rise and bubble.  The yeast will make the mix thicken as it starts to do it’s stuff.  Once it has risen and started to bubble and thicken stir in 1 tsp baking powder.
Pour mix into moulds lined with baking paper.  And place on varoma tray and set aside for 10 mins or so while you heat 1 litre of water to varoma temp on speed 2 (I chopped some pandan leaf and popped it in the water).  Place varoma tray on TM and steam for 10 - 15 mins.  Depending on size of your moulds and how wet your mix was.

They are very soft and cake like.  I've got photos but couldn't upload....or remember where I had seen the advice on how to on the forum....mind you I couldn't find how I'd added recipes before either.  I must need a nap or a little more rice cake to stabilise my blood sugar

These are inspired by the ones our neighbour from the Philipines shares with us sometimes.  One of her friends makes them and I haven't been able to get the recipe out of her.  Here is what has pleased us.  I would love it if anyone has other recipes.  There were some when I was looking on the net that used rice that was soaked and fermented overnight and ground.  These seemed appealing however I was in a hurry to get some more of these into my belly and overnight seemed too long.

[Nay-nay]

These sound like a good option for a GF friend - I'll have something to offer when she comes! (other than the rice crackers out of the school snacks cook book) Do you make them in those silicone patty cake moulds? Would this mix make 12? What is pandan leaf? 

[Nay-nay]

Oh - ok - just looked up pandan leaf:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus_amaryllifolius
If I saw that in my back yard I would have thought it looked poison!! 

[containergirl]

I think the mix would easily make 12.  I did 4 large ones in stainless steel bowls and 2 small silicone ones today.  I think there would easily be 2-3 small silicone ones to the large ones.   When I work out how I'll attach the photos. 

[containergirl]

Senior PRINCE Spanner to the rescue .......  totottooootototot toooot toooot totototooooot   ...  Thats supposed to be a fanfair of trumpets herelding a most spunky and proficient Monarch to the rescue. The true Monarch of this house !!!!!



oh by the way ,.... this photo is of the wet mixture before steaming.

[containergirl]

next photo.
This is of the finished product.

You can tell by the following LACK of photos that we were all too busy being royalists ..... we were having our cake AND eating it too!

By royal decree I bid you all farewell and return to you the senior Princess.

Ta taa.

[containergirl]

Thank you my royal prince spanner. 

The wet mix is mighty fine raw, as evidenced by the little paw that reached in as I took the photo.

[Cornish Cream]

Containergirl I loved the running commentary of a recipe in the process of cooking.Keep up the "royal" work and looking forward to the next "royal decree".

[zebraa]

What a fabulous recipe! Thankyou.

[Thermomixer]

Great work CG - brilliant.  Love steamed buns/cakes.    Great that you mastered the photos.

[quirkycooking]

These look great, just what I need!!! How did I miss this recipe?? Trying it today! 

[Twitterpated]

Thanks for bumping the recipe Jo! Have a GF relative staying with us on and off for the next few weeks and have been worried about what to have with soup, etc. instead of bread. It's not easy when you're not used to it.   

[quirkycooking]

Another good one with soup is my gf pizza bases - yum!