So many attempts, so many trials and so much waste, until ...I learn how to do it propperly. Why is this cake so annoying? It came to my mind to give up on making them. Until one day I have them blooming beautifully... The cake called Bolu Kukus (Steam cupcake or others call it steam muffin).The texture is so light and the kids will love to eat them, the ingredients are easy to get, and cheap as well.


The Ingredients:
adapted from Fatmah Bahlawan's recipe


450 gr  sugar
500 gr  all purpose flour
1 teaspon baking powder double acting
4 eggs
300 ml sprite
1 tbsp emulsifier
1 sdt  chocolate paste

Direction:
Make sure you turn on your steamer before you start to mix the ingredients.

mix the sugar,eggs, and emulsifier until pale and thick (It take around 10 minutes, depend on your mixer). Add the dry ingredients, and the sprite alternately, while the mixer still running. Fill your Bolu kukus mould that has already been lined with the paper cup. Steam them around 10 minutes or more.

I want to share some of the tricks. I hope it will be useful for all of my friends who want to try to make this.
 

These are some of the notes from my experiments :
Step one:you have to creaming sugar and eggs until it's look like a meringue, and very white in colour. It will take around about 10 minutes or more, it depends on the strength of your machine.
 

step2: when you put the flour and liquid  into the egg mixture alternately , keep the mixer running on low speed. After all of them in, than beat in the high speed for just a couple of second.
 

Step3: is the most important one, make sure your steamer is really hot, the water in it has to be boiled vigorously, sometimes people put too much water in it, that will make the bolu kukus not bloom either.

Just put enough water in the steamer to steam a batch of them. Do not put too much in the steamer in one go, give some room for the steam to circulate, also make sure you cover the lid with some cloth so the water from the steam wouldn't go to your bolu kukus, it will cause the cake wouldn't bloom either.Keep the lid on at least for the first 5-10 minutes.

Have fun with your bolu kukus experiment.