Kueh Lapis

Name: Kueh Lapis
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 500g butter; 20 egg yolks; 2 cups sugar; 2 tbsp mixed spices

Kueh Lapis/koo-eh LAH-pis/

Also known as: Spice Layer Cake

About this dish

A dense, multi-layered spiced cake, baked one thin layer at a time.

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Ingredients

🧈500g butter

🥚20 egg yolks

🍬2 cups sugar

🌰2 tbsp mixed spices

Method

Serves 3

Cream butter and sugar until light, then beat in egg yolks and spices.

Pour a thin layer of batter into a baking pan and grill or bake until set.

Add another thin layer on top and bake again, repeating many times.

Continue layering until the cake reaches the desired height.

Cool completely before slicing to reveal the layers.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Kueh lapis is a traditional layered cake found across Singapore's Peranakan community, prized for its painstaking layering technique.

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