Kue pukis or simply called Pukis is an Indonesian ''

kue Kue are bite-sized snacks or desserts originally from what is now Indonesia but have since spread throughout Southeast Asia. ''Kue'' is a fairly broad term in Indonesian to describe a wide variety of snacks including cakes, cookies, fritters, p ...

'' or traditional snack made of a

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-based batter and cooked in a special mold pan. It is a commonly found snack in Indonesian traditional markets. The mold pan is similar to muffin tin but has rectangular basins instead of rounded. It took form of a row of rectangular basins of small tubs with a rounded half-moon bottom, thus create a half-moon or boat-shaped hot cakes. Pukis mold is quite similar to waffle mold. The special grill-like metal mold used in making kue pukis is also used in other Indonesian traditional ''kue''; including kue pancong (also known as bandros in West Java) and kue rangi (which is made with grated coconut and

tapioca Tapioca (; ) is a starch extracted from the tubers of the cassava plant (''Manihot esculenta,'' also known as manioc), a species native to the North Region, Brazil, North and Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast regions of Brazil, but which has ...

starch-batter instead), thus the shape is quite similar to those cakes. Although kue pukis mold is usually bigger than kue rangi mold. The taste however, is more akin to Indonesian kue cubit, Dutch

poffertjes ''Poffertjes'' () are traditional Dutch batter cakes. Resembling small, fluffy pancakes, they are made with yeast and buckwheat flour. Typically, ''poffertjes'' are sweet treats served with powdered sugar and butter, and sometimes syrup or ...

and Japanese dorayaki, due to similar wheat flour-based batter.

Ingredients and cooking method

Pasar Terapung Lok Baintan penjual kue terang bulan dan kue pukis

The batter is made from the mixture of

, water,

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, eggs, sugar, thick

coconut milk Coconut milk is a plant milk extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. The opacity and rich taste of the milky-white liquid are due to its high oil content, most of which is saturated fat. Coconut milk is a traditional food ingred ...

, and salt; with

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butter Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of Churning (butter), churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 81% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread (food ...

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used to grease the cake mold to avoid it being stuck. Sometimes the top of the cake is sprinkled with chocolate sprinkles, bits of peanuts, grated

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or fermented cassava

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Kue pukis, kue pancong and kue rangi are quite similar, thus the three hot cakes are often mistakenly identified. The general differences between those three hot cakes are as follows:

References

External links

Kue pukis recipe

Kue pukis video in youtube
{{Indonesian cuisine Kue Foods containing coconut Street food in Indonesia

Ingredients and cooking method

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See also

References

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