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Palauan Tapioca Cake

Name: Palauan Tapioca Cake
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Palau
Ingredients: 500g (frozen) Cassava; 300ml Coconut milk; 120g Sugar; 1 Egg; 20g Butter; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Grated cassava and coconut milk baked until set — an island sweet of Palau.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In Palau, cassava is often called tapioca, and a cake of grated cassava baked with coconut milk and sugar is brought to gatherings and church events. Its chewy texture and sweet coconut aroma are its hallmarks.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a gathering day in Palau, a chewy cake baked in a square pan is cut and laid out on the table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Cassava 500g (frozen)
Coconut milk 300ml
Sugar 120g
Egg 1
Butter 20g
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Thaw the cassava, remove the core, and grate.
Mix with 200ml coconut milk, the sugar, eggs, melted butter, and vanilla.
Pour into a buttered pan.
Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes.
Pour the remaining coconut milk over the top, bake another 10 minutes, cool, and cut.

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