Bowsprit Cake ( Kue Cucur )

Name : Cici Afriani

NIM : F1021141003

Bowsprit ( "Cucur" Cake )

Bowsprit or “Cucur” is one of the traditional cake in Indonesia, that usually, we will find it in some party, especially in Central Java. Round-shaped cake with it’s edge like rather is burnt, it has a sweet taste that combined with the tasteful coconut is very typical. In Kalimantan exactly in West Kalimantan, name of "cucur" cake is tumpi usually served by the natives resident when the big day or a custom party. Bowsprit is one of the favorite wet cake. This traditional cake is very delicious although only using materials that are very simple. This cake is usually sold in the markets, the wet cake shops or food stalls. This cakes bowsprit is very be loved by various groups, begin from children to adults. Bowsprit cake is very easy to be made into a delicious cake, to make this cake does not require a lot of materials, but when the process to made it requires patience, because it must be processed one by one. Hopefully bowsprit cake recipe that I show in this beloved blog can benefit for us all. Ingredients for making this bowsprit cake do not need a lot of materials. Among them are rice flour, wheat flour and brown sugar.

The ingredients to make bowsprit cake :

1. 125 grams of rice flour

2. 30 grams of wheat flour

3. 125 grams of brown sugar
4. 2 pieces of pandan leaves
5. 1/4 teaspoon of salt
6. 230 ml of water

How to make the delicious bowsprit cake:

1. The first step that we will do is boil water as much as 230 ml, pandan leaves and brown sugar until sugar dissolves and boil. Then strain and let until warm (not too hot).

2. Then we mix rice flour, salt and wheat flour. Then we pour a solution of sugar little by little. 

3. After the dough of bowsprit cake is rather coagulate. Hit it for approximately 30 minutes while given a little brown sugar solution until exhausted.

4. After that we let the dough of bowsprit for approximately 40 minutes.

5. We heat the cooking oil as much as 4 tablespoons into bowsprit cake molds ( small concave pan ).

6. Pour the dough of bowsprit into molds then flush with hot oil until the bowsprit cake expands and fibrous.

7. Stab the middle of the bowsprit cake with tooth puncture. Do it while rotated in order to crude part on the bowsprit cake participate mature. We are turning the bowsprit cake for a while and take away. Please try :)