Bibingka or Rice flour Cake For Sweet Punch December 2011

Bibingka is a Filipino dessert which is baked with glutinous rice, rice flour, cheese and salted eggs.  Actually I was supposed to make this for Daring Baker's last month, which I skipped it since I couldn't find glutinous rice, next I found it quite peculiar using whole salted eggs for dessert.

We use eggs almost for most of our puddings and mousse, which is normally whipped up and get blended but this one is baked with whole salted eggs in the middle.  After skipping the process of using salted eggs and glutinous rice, I found this cake  as a very familiar taste to me, it was very much like a rice flour paniyaram which my mom used to make, except that this is been baked.  Anyways I loved this cake a lot, a best option for gluten free cake, so this recipe is my submission for Sweet Punch.  Oh! Yes, I forget to say, this month Sweet punch team has left to our choice to bake anything of our choice.  Hope you enjoy baking this cake in your home.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time:  30 minutes
Makes 4

Ingredients:
Rice flour-  150 g
Eggs- 2
Sugar- 75 g
Coconut milk- 60 ml
Butter- 3 tbsp ( melted )
Baking powder- 2 tsp
Cardamom powder- 1 tsp
Fresh grated coconut- 2 tbsp

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.  Mix together rice flour, baking powder and sugar in a large bowl.  Beat in the eggs, cardamom powder and  coconut milk into the rice flour mixture.  Finally add the melted butter into the rice flour mixture.  Grease and line four ramekins.  Pour the mixture equally into the ramekins and  sprinkle the grated coconut on top of it.  Bake it in the preheated oven  for 30 to 40 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.  Take it out from the oven, cool it in the wire rack for about 5 minutes.  Remove it from the ramekins and serve it while they are still warm.
Sending this to Cook, Eat Delicious Dessert- Coconut hosted by Raksha's Kitchen originally started by Raven  , Let's Cook- Baked Goodies, Cooking Concepts- Holiday Baking, A 100 Day Global Food Festival, SYF and HWS Series- Cardamom,  Jingle All The Way,  Christmas Delicacy, Sinful Delights and Bake Fest