Kek lapis Sarawak

There was a Malaysian Street Festival today at the Queen Victoria Market which I went to check out despite the rain. Luckily the sun came out not long after we got there but that wouldn't have stopped us from lining up at the various stalls selling Malaysian goodness.

After checking out the talent, we decided to start with some fruit rojak and a teh peng (iced teh tarik/tea) which came in a plastic bag with string from Chilli Padi. Oh how it reminded me of being in Malaysia!

Next, I lined up to buy mee rebus from a really busy stall whilst M went next door for satays, both run by the same group. After finally getting our mee rebus,I walked up to M who was almost near the front of the queue but to my despair, the stall declared that they were so busy, the wait for satays was over an hour. I guess good satay, well satays in generally, is hard to come by in Melbourne as not a lot of people can do it well and in the traditional way over charcoal.

We walked past a stall selling little packs of cakes called Kek Lapis Sarawak which is actually what I wanted to blog about. These colourful little slabs of cake are made up of layers upon layers of cake, each baked one layer at a time and tinted different colours to create a pattern. I know that to make of these require plenty of time and patience and it's defnitely something I'd love to try to make one day.

There were cakes with different patterns, made up of various flavours including coffee, strawberry, honey and masam manis (which I think is the fruit Haw Flakes are made of). They are very similar to the Indonesian layer cake, Lapis Legit.

Honey kek lapis Sarawak

The honey kek cut up

Masam manis kek lapis