KOMPAS.com – Before Chinese New Year, generally cake traders in the market will sell various basket cakes. Usually basket cakes are sold in various packages.
Some are wrapped in plastic and some are wrapped in banana leaves. The packaging is also adjusted to the buyer’s needs, some are sold retail, some are sold in the form of hampers.
At first glance, all basket cakes look the same, but if you look more closely, there are several things you need to pay attention to to get a good basket cake.
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Tips for choosing a good basket cake
According to the owner and manager of the Dodol & Cake production house, Ny. The third generation Lauw (LKW) is called Iin, a good basket cake can be seen from its consistency.
A worker takes basket cake dough to put into the furnace at the Dodol and Ny Cake production house. Lauw (LKW), in Tangerang, Banten, Friday (17/1/2025).
“Actually, those that are a bit hard (are better), if the basket cake is soft, it’s actually not good, (it’s soft because) it gets in the water,” said Iin when Kompas.com met her in the Ny Dodol & Cake production kitchen. Lauw (LKW), Tangerang, Banten, Friday (7/1/2025).
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Meanwhile, he continued, if you look at the color of the cake, Iin suggests choosing red basket cakes, and avoiding white basket cakes.
A number of workers package dodol and basket cakes at the Ny Dodol and Cake production house. Lauw (LKW), in Tangerang, Banten, Friday (17/1/2025).“People want red basket cakes, if the cake is white it’s not good,” said Iin.
He added that basket cakes which have a hard consistency can be softened. To do this, steam it briefly in a steamer, then the basket cake will become chewy again.
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