Cassava Cake Recipe

Cassava cake is one of the most popular and most delicious homemade delicacies here in the Philippines. Making this cake, won’t take much of your time, because this is so easy to do. All you have to do is to make sure you got all the needed ingredients, which are: the most essential, grated cassava, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, coconut milk, coconut cream, eggs and grated coconut. Making this cassava cake, involves two sections: making the cake and preparing the toppings. In making the cake, you just have to follow the given instruction below. Take note of the required oven temperature.

Lastly, on preparing the toppings for the cake, you must make sure that the cake, is already done before you put the topping. To know, if the cake is already done, the top should be golden brown. So there you have it! This cassava cake also comes with different health benefits. Do you know that cassava is the third-largest source of food carbohydrates in the tropics? Well, yes. And with just eating a slice or two of this cake, you will eventually feel full enough. So, really hope you’ll bake this! Have a nice try!

Cassava, which is usually boiled, is another common meryenda in barios, along with saging na saba and kamote. You will just need some sugar as dip. This root crop is also known as kamoteng kahoy or balinghoy.

This cassava cake recipe here is one of the best classic kakanin or desserts in the Philippines. It is made of grated cassava. Have you tried this cassava cake before? This is similar to Vietnam’s banh khoai mi, a cake that is made from grated cassava, sugar, coconut milk, and a small amount of salt. However, our recipe uses condensed milk, not sugar. We will also use coconut milk and cream. Commonly, this kakanin is topped with grated cheese, which can perfectly complement the cassava cake.

During those days, cooking cassava cake is almost play time for the kids. Why? They can play around while grating cassava. Making cassava cake can be of two parts. The first part is grating. The second one is topping preparation. Nowadays, there are cleaned kamoteng kahoy available in the market. In barrios, they commonly dig it first and clean it prior to grating. Well, yeah. A bit laborious. But the finished kakanin will be so rewarding with its awesome taste.

Cassava Cake Recipe

 

 

 

Ingredients

• 2 Lbs Grated Cassava
• 1 14 oz. Can Sweetened Condensed Milk (Reserve ⅓ cup for Topping)
• 1 12 oz. Can Evaporated Milk
• 1 14 oz. Can Coconut Milk (Reserve ⅓ cup for Topping)
• 1 13 oz. Can Coconut Cream (Reserve ⅓ cup for Topping)
• ⅔ Cup Sugar
• 3 Eggs plus 3 Egg Whites
• 1 Cup Grated Coconut
• Topping:
• 3 Egg Yokes
• ⅓ Cup Reserved Sweetened Condensed Milk
• ⅓ Cup Reserved Coconut Milk
• ⅓ Cup Reserved Coconut Cream

 

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350° f.
2. In large mixing bowl combine cake ingredients.
3. Mix well. Pour equally into two large greased rectangular pans.
4. Bake until top is no longer liquid (approximately 40 minutes to 1 hour).
5. Mix topping ingredients well and spread evenly on the two cakes.
6. Bake an additional 20 to 30 minutes. Cool cakes completely.
7. Slice each cake into 24 equal squares.

source: panlasang pinoy