Bánh bò literally translates to either crawling cake (since it crawls up the pan while baking) or cow cake (since its cross section looks like cow innards).

This is my favorite Vietnamese treat. It has a lightly sweet coconut flavor, which meshes with the traditional pandas aromatic flavor that is typically infused into the batter.

A well mixed and baked bánh bò will have a beautiful honeycomb texture, pictured in the below variations (some are crazy) that I have made.

1. Bánh Bò stuffed with Texas smoked beef rib:

2. Bánh bò stuffed with durian fruit:

3. Bánh bò 3 flavors in 1 – ube, durian, pandan:

Bánh bò (coffee flavor) stuffed with Texas smoked beef rib:

What’s the weirdest dessert food you’ve ever been given, and why is it always cake? Call me biased, but, to me, a birthday brisket would be just as good. Now, I have nothing against cakes and sweets, cause I sure as hell know that I like sweets a lil too much.

It may be cause I can easily count on one hand the number of birthday parties and birthday cakes I’ve had. All were memorable though, I’ll say – but maybe its cause I don’t have much experience with baking. For instance, as I grew my expertise in smoking meats, my appreciation and love for bbq also correspondingly grew.

Bánh Bò – Honeycomb Pandan Cake

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Recipe by harrisondtran Course: Dessert, SnackCuisine: Vietnamese, Texas BBQDifficulty: Medium

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

40

minutes

bouncy, airy, chewy, fragrant + lightly sweet & aromatic pandan coconut + a flakey crust.

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Ingredients

• 5 cups 5 tapioca starch

• 11/6 cups 11/6 rice flour

• 1 tsp 1 salt

• 3 cups 3 coconut milk

• 14/5 cups 14/5 sugar

• 4 tsp 4 vanilla extract

• 6 6 eggs

• 2 tsp 2 baking powder

• 2 tsp 2 baking soda

• 1/4 cups 1/4 water

• 1 tsp 1 pandan extract (or extract of choice fruit)

Instructions

• Batter
• Sift tapioca starch, rice flour, and salt.
• Separately mix coconut milk and sugar.
• Slowly and fully combine previous two mixtures.
• Mix in vanilla extract.
• Add eggs and mix for 30 seconds.
• Mix in baking powder.
• Separately mix baking soda and water.
• Slowly and fully combine previous two mixtures.
• Add pandan extract and rest 30 min to absorb flavors.
• Cooking in a Pan
• Cook covered on low heat until batter fully sets and top bubbles pop.
• Periodically wipe excess water from lid to prevent dripping.
• Baking in Oven
• Bake at 350° F for 45 minutes. Poke with a toothpick – if it pull out clean, it’s done; otherwise continue to bake and check every 10 minutes.

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