STEPS OF PREPARATION
Lightly greased your desired steamer tray.
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Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until fine. Sift into a non stick pan. Heat the batter under low heat. Constant stirring is required to avoid lumps forming too fast.
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Stir until the batter starts to coat the sides of the pan and wooden spoon but still in liquid form. In this process, you will feel that the batter is getting stickier to stir. Off the heat and transfer the sticky liquid batter to the greased tin. Steam under high heat for about 10-15 minutes or until the green layer is set. The cooked green layer shall have a darker shade of green and the top surface shall be dry.
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Put all the white layer ingredients in the non stick pan. Stir until well mixed. Put the pandan and cook under low heat until the white layers slightly thickens but still in liquid form. Throw away the pandan leaves. Transfer to the steamed green layer. Steamed at high heat for another 10-15 minutes or until the white layer have set. Use a skewer to pierce on the centre to ensure that white layer is cooked. Cooled completely before unmoulding and cut into desired pieces.
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Notes:
If you like this shade of green colouring, you will have to add some pandan green colouring.
Constant stirring is very important in the step of pre-cooking the batter. The liquid can turn solid rather fast. Close supervision is required. If you wish, you can use double boil method to let the boiling water steamed the liquid batter. If the batter become lumpy too fast, you are advised not to proceed. Otherwise your cake with have uneven, wavy layers.
This recipe yields the same height of green and white layer. If you want a shorter white layer like what is sold commercially, you can consider reducing the white layer ingredients by half. It will also faster to steam.
For steaming of the second layer, make sure that the middle is totally cooked. The centre of the cake can be uncooked though both sides, top and bottom are cooked. Skewer test is a must. If you withdraw your skewer, some white floury substance sticks to the skewer, it means the centre is not cooked.
Steaming time is for your reference and It very much depends on your steamer tray and your steamer.
To avoid water condensation dropping into your cake, you can either cover it with a piece of cloth or clingy wrap or aluminium foil during the steaming. However, it will take a much longer time for the cake to set.
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CONCLUSION
I am happy with this attempt. The texture is slightly springy for the bottom layer and it is not an overly sweet kuih. If you are adventurous enough, the basic recipe is there, you can always toy with colour and flavour of the kuih.