Bengawan Solo Kek Lapis Prune

• June
• 9

6:06 am Shopped This, Tea Time Treats

I had never eaten this kek lapis prior to this, and this being around late last year. Shocked?

Well, don’t be. I have not really seen this type of cakes to be served around where I lived. And then I moved to the US, later on to the UK, making it more impossible to be acquainted to this torte.

The first time that I saw this, albeit online, was probably a couple year ago after the explosion of food blogging on the internet. I wandered how it would taste like. Would it taste weird because it contained cinnamon powder? But then I am used to cinnamon buns, so that would be ok, right?

And what about the amount of egg yolks used? Most recipes that I found online would ask for about 20-25 egg yolks per cake. Yes. Really. Wouldn’t the cake smells too egg-y? Yolk-y? But that is where cinnamon powder comes in handy, perhaps?

Anyway, upon first bite, cloyingly sweet taste burst in my mouth, and puts me off a little bit. Not much, but just a tad bit. I knew that I like this cake, but I don’t enjoy the sweetness. And I knew that a lot of people attempted, and succeeded in baking this, but I am not sure whether I would.

It takes a lot of patience, which I don’t have. I have a kid who trails after me all the time, so spending six hours baking one torte would not be viable.

Probably when Pumpkin is older.

Perhaps