Espasol is a soft, chewy Filipino rice cake prepared with a combination of toasted glutinous rice flour and grated green coconut that is slowly cooked in coconut milk. The mixture turns into soft, pliable dough that is shaped into long cylinders or triangles before each cake is coated in rice flour. Laguna's Espasol is one of the must try delicacy when you visit Laguna.

HOW TO MAKE ESPASOL

Ingredients

• 3 cups glutinous rice flour toasted

• 1/2 cup sweet rice flour toasted

• 2 cups sugar

• 3 cups coconut milk

• 1 1/2 cups grated coconut toasted

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

1. In a cooking pot, pour-in the coconut milk and bring to a boil.

2. Add the sugar and stir continuously for 10 minutes.

3. Put-in the toasted grated coconut and cook for 5 minutes.

4. Add the vanilla essence and toasted rice flour and cook for 40 minutes to 1 hour or until the mixture becomes really thick while folding.

5. Remove the mixture from the pot and allow to cool down.

6. Dust the toasted sweet rice flour in a flat surface.

7. Divide the mixture into parts and roll over the dusted sweet rice flour until a cylindrical shape is formed.

8. Slice according to your preference.

9. Put in a serving plate or wrap in paper or banana leaf.