Today I made this recipe for
Bibingka – Filipino Coconut Cake. Turned out great, but not as I expected at all.
I've never baked with rice flour before so even knowing it's a very fine flour I was still surprised at just how fine and fluffy a cake can be. It's unreal how soft this cake is.
The image at the link shows a cake that looks extra moist and dense, but mine came out twice as tall and it's super fluffy, not gooey, but just enough moisture. I was hoping for a more dense and gooey cake but glad it came out so fluffy and fine.
The only other thing I did differently is I used coconut milk instead of milk. Since cow's milk and coconut milk are not even remotely the same thing despite the name, maybe that was enough of a deviation in chemistry to cause my cake to be so tall and light and so different from the image by the same recipe. No idea. I'm not Alton Brown.
It's weird that a coconut cake recipe would not call for coconut flakes. I wanted to make it by the recipe, but also wanted to add the flakes, so I just sprinkled them on half the cake.
Also, the pineapple can barely be tasted. Next time I make this, I will double the pineapple. I think a topping of pineapple, cream of coconut, and whipped cream would work so great for this.