Apam Harun Manis brings back my childhood memories. I have not seen this traditional Malay kuih being sold anywhere. Thus, I have to make them myself to savour them as well as to introduce them to my children. The method of making them is easy - just mix and steam. However, you need to have the small porcelain or plastic cups them.
Ingredients:
- 140 g gula Melaka
- 160 ml water
- 2 eggs
- 70 g sugar
- 170 g all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- A pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 pisang raja, sliced thinly
- 25 porcelain or plastic cups, greased
Method:
- Prepare a steamer with boiling water.
- Boil gula Melaka and water till the gula Melaka dissolves. Sieve and set it aside to cool down.
- Beat eggs and sugar with a whisk till the mixture is double in volume
- Sieve flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a mixing bowl.
- Add egg mixture to the flour and mix till no flour can be seen.
- Add gula Melaka syrup and vanilla essence to the flour and mix till the batter is smooth. The batter should not be too thick nor thin. You may add a bit of water if it is too thick and a bit of flour if it is too thin.
- Scoop the batter to the greased cups (up to 2/3 of each cup).
- Place a slice of pisang raja on top of the batter.
- Steam the batter for 20 minutes.
- When done, let the kuih stay in the cups for about 5 minutes before removing them from the cups.
- The kuih should be flat or a big sunken on top. (I had filled my batter to the brim in order to steam all in one batch and I had not allowed the kuih to rest in the cups for 5 minutes before removing them. Thus, the kuih had a rounded top.)