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Timorese Bibinka

Name: Timorese Bibinka
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Timor-Leste
Ingredients: 200g Rice flour; 400ml Coconut milk; 50g Shredded Coconut; 3 Egg; 150g Sugar; 30g Butter; 1 tsp Baking Powder

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Coconut, rice flour, and eggs baked together — East Timor's cake handed down from Portuguese times.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bibinka is a baked sweet found in former Portuguese territories such as Goa, Macau, and East Timor. In East Timor, coconut, rice flour, eggs, and sugar are mixed and baked until moist. It's made for celebrations such as Christmas and weddings and eaten with coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Christmas morning in East Timor, a freshly baked coconut cake is cut into squares and served to relatives with Timorese coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Rice flour 200g
Coconut milk 400ml
Shredded Coconut 50g
Egg 3
Sugar 150g
Butter 30g
Baking Powder 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Beat the eggs and sugar well.
Add the coconut milk and melted butter and mix.
Add the rice flour, baking powder, and desiccated coconut and mix.
Pour into a pan.
Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes until golden on top.

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