KOMPAS.com – Lapis Legit is believed to bring layered luck when the Chinese New Year.
Lapis Bolu is widely sold before Chinese New Year, both as Hamper and guest and family treat at home.
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According to monitoring Kompas.com In a number of shops on line on Wednesday (1/29/2025), The price of Chinese New Year Legit Lapis ranges from Rp. 100,000 to Rp. 1 million, depending on its size.
The size of the legit layer also varies, usually consisting of 10 centimeters (cm) x 10 cm, 10 cm x 20 cm, 10 cm x 15 cm, and 20 cm x 20 cm.
Why is the price of Lapis Legit expensive?
Lapis Legit Illustration.At least, there are three reasons for the price of expensive legit layers, namely the use of many eggs, selection of butter, and the duration of manufacture that is not short.
This was conveyed by Lapis Legit and Hotel Chef Entrepreneurs in the News Kompas.com On Monday (1/31/2022).
“By using premium ingredients, automatically the price is expensive,” said Executive Pastry Chef Le Meridien Hotel Jakarta, Yuri Komalasari.
The egg part used to make a legit layer is egg yolk, without the white part.
The number of legit layer egg yolks reaches 25-30 grains for one pan measuring 20 cm x 20 cm. That is, it requires more than one kilogram of eggs to make a legit layer.
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Lapis Legit, premium cakes that are usually served during Chinese New Year. Furthermore, the main fat ingredient for making legit layers is premium butter with a mixture of margarine.
The owner of the Legit Swancakery Lapis Shop, Gandhi Arifin Tjeng, added, the price of butter to make the legit layer is fairly expensive.
“It’s expensive because it uses Butter Wijsman. Wijsman’s butter is a butter from the Netherlands which is quite expensive around Rp. 340,000 per kilogram, “he said.
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In addition to the raw materials of layer legit, the process of making it also affects the high price of this food.
The layer is cooked one by one to reach 16-20 layers. If each layer is roasted for five minutes, the total duration reaches three hours for one legit layer pan.
“Why is it so expensive, yes because pastry it’s something that is Art Yes, like art. Different from cooking chicken, the important thing is delicious sobut if you play with pastry yes playing with Art“said Yuri.
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