Ant's Nest Cake / Kek Sarang Semut

Ant's Nest Cake, 2014

The ant's nest cake is a traditional Malay caramel (gula hangus) cake baked instead of steamed. The sticky and bouncy texture of this dessert should be more closely related to a kuih, than the usual crumbly buttery cake. It resembles the texture of Pak Tong Gou (Steamed White Cake), which I am more familiar of. This is the first time I tasted Ant's Nest Cake myself.

Being an anti-caramel person, surprisingly this cake tastes really good. I like that it is baked to have the exterior dark golden brown, and I promise, it does not taste overly sickly sweet as much as it sounds. The best part is, it hardly needs any beating or mixer involve equipment - which saves a lot of cleaning and dreadful dish washing.