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Default A sticky rice cake dessert with all sorts of good stuff and less sugar

On Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:20:09 AM UTC-7, jmcquown wrote:
> On 6/27/2013 10:44 AM, Cheri wrote:
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> > "Julie Bove" > wrote in message

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> >> "Biyd Ng" > wrote in message

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> >> This is a baked sticky rice cake just like any cake, but use sticky

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> >> rice flour instead of wheat flour. Because of the sticky rice

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> >> ingredient, it tastes like the Chinese "Year Cake", a dessert normally

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> >> made for Chinese New Year celebration. It used less sugar than normal

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> >> cake and added red paste, craisin, walnuts and almond slices added

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> >> which all together makes this cake so irresistible. Must try!

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> >> http://www.sociostudy.com/content/lo...rice-year-cake

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> >> Why in the world would it matter about how much sugar you put in?

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> >> Craisins have sugar. And sticky rice is loaded with carbs.

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> > I don't think the OP said it mattered, she was just saying it used less

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> > sugar, not one word about less carbs. Get it?

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> > Cheri

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> Exactly. Not everyone has a reason to count carbs. My world certainly
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> doesn't revolve around it. The thing that bothers me is the recipe says
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> "1 bottle" (?!) of cooking spray. I sincerely doubt it would take an
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> entire can (heh) of cooking spray to coat a 13x9 baking pan. Were I to
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> make this I'd just brush the pan with oil.
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> Jill


That's a good point. If I don't have the bottle, I would just use whatever measure to get the pan oiled. I'll suggest the author to add a few notes about this. Thanks!