Dessert and Sweet

Bola-bola ubi jalar , that's what this meal called. It is made from sweet potato, which Indonesian calls 'ubi jalar'. I usually eat it for snacking. In Indonesia we have different kind of snacks that usually are sold in the street or traditional...

Indonesians love sweet for dessert. There are many kind of traditonal sweets across the country. Bubur Candil is one of many varieties of Indonesian porridge. It is made of glutinous rice flour (tepung ketan ) then shape it like small ball and dip...

Green Soya or Mung beans (or Indonesian named it 'Kacang Hijau’) are commonly used in Chinese cuisine, as well as in Japan, Korea, India, Thailand and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, they are made into a popular dessert snack called es bubur kacang h...

Bubur sumsum is a popular dessert in Indonesia. It is a porridge made from rice flour and coconut milk. There are many varieties of porridge in Indonesia, made from different kind of ingredients. This bubur Sumsum is the simpliest one, yet very tasty....

Dadar Gulung is one of popular snacks in Indonesia, especially in Java. Dadar literally in Indonesian means 'pancake' while gulung means 'to roll'. Inside has sweet grated coconut as a filling, and usually the pancake has green-coloured which comes...

Getuk is a traditional Javanese dish (more like for snack or dessert). Therefore there are couple varieties of getuk - based on the main ingredients. Besides Cassava, can be also made from sweet potato (Indonesian known as 'ubi jalar'), taro (known as...

Kolak or Kolek  (fruit in coconut milk) is an Indonesian dessert made with palm sugar and coconut milk, with pandanus leaf for flavour. The dish later on known as Kolek Pisang . Pumpkin, sweet potato (ubi jalar ), jackfruit, and cassava (singkong ...

Kue Leker is one of my favourite childhood snack. The seller using cart goes around my kampong neighbourhood. Very cheap. I remember it costed only 1000 rupiah and I got 5 delicious kue leker. The seller cart was very simple ... he has a very small...

Indonesia also popular with delicious desserts and sweets. This layer cake, knowns as 'Lapis Surabaya ' or 'Spiku ' is very popular among others.  The cake consists of 3 layers and the real recipe is using 10 egg yolks each layer. So no wonder  t...

Martabak Manis (Indonesian sweet thick pancake) is one of popular snack in Indonesia. It is also known as 'Terang Bulan' (means 'shinning moon' in English) in Surabaya (East Java) or 'Martabak Bangka' in Bandung (West Java). You can easily find it along...

Fried Banana or Pisang Goreng is very popular in Indonesia. It can be eaten as a dessert or a light snack to company your tea time break. Fried Banana is easy to make. It needs only few ingredients and a short cooking time, you won't believe how...

Rujak manis is a salad made from different kind of fruits and serves with sweet spicy sauce from palm sugar, chillies and sometimes adds with fried peanut. The fruits are fresh such as young Mango, Pineapple, Cucumber, Papaya, yam Bean (Bengkuang) ...