Sapin-sapin

Sapin-sapin is a layered Filipino steamed cake made with glutinous rice and coconut milk. Lalaine Manalo’s recipe mixes glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk and sugar. The batter is divided into three portions: purple ube-flavoured, yellow jackfruit-flavoured and plain white. Each layer is steamed until set before the next is poured over it.^[1]

The cooled cake is brushed with coconut oil and topped with latik, browned coconut solids obtained by reducing coconut cream. Manalo suggests adding cooked mashed ube to the purple layer and chopped jackfruit to the yellow one. Sapin-sapin is cut into portions for a snack or dessert.^[1]