Every year on the 3rd of March of the lunar year, people make floating cakes, vegetarian cakes. This is a traditional custom that is very familiar to all Vietnamese people. Ingredients for cooking cakes are very popular and familiar. First, we must have delicious sticky rice. You can mix non-glutinous rice, but sticky rice still has to make up the majority. There is rice for the cake crust, it is necessary to add sugar to make it sweet. The traditional filling is made of honey with a rich aroma. Today, many families use alum sugar with a cool taste. To make a vegetarian cake filling, we need pureed green beans. In addition, need a little sesame, copra to sprinkle on two types of cake. The way to make the cake is quite simple. The first is to soak the rice for 6 to 8 hours, then rinse the rice. Finished washing, pour the rice out to grind the water. Be careful not to dry them as this will make the rice crumbs and the grains will be unevenly large and small after the grinding. After grinding, pour all the flour into the cloth bag, tie it tightly, compress slowly, gently to squeeze the water out. Avoid pressing hard hands will cause the bag to open. Squeeze all the water, you will have a sticky dough to make a crust. Next will be the cake mold step. The floating cake is round, moderately large. Put a sugar ball in, squeeze the flour sealed so that when boiled, the sugar does not come out. Vegetarian cake filling is green beans that are treated with peel, cooked food, and pureed. Cake and filling must follow a reasonable ratio. Do not let the cake or filling too big or too small will cause loss of appetite when eaten. The most delicate is boiled cake. Boil water and then put the cake in. Wait until the cake floats on the water, gently pick it up and drop it into clean and cold water. If left too hot the cake will melt, not sticky and delicious. Enjoying floating cakes, vegetarian cakes is an art. Floating cake is placed on a plate, sprinkled on a thin layer of sesame and a little coconut fiber. Vegetarian cakes are served in a bowl. Boil the sugar water mixed with tapioca flour and cover the cake surface. Above, sprinkle a few green beans, crushed, broken in half and peeled off. The clear color of the cake and the broth harmonize with the bright yellow of the green peas, making it look beautiful. These are both cold food cakes. The cake floats in your mouth, when you close it, you will feel the sweetness of the rice, the sweetness of sugar. And vegetarian cakes, using a spoon to scoop out the cake, bite lightly, you will see a cool, fragrant flavor. For both cakes, if you like, you can add a little grapefruit essential oil. Now, people do not make cakes as much as before, but most buy them when needed. But you have to cook it yourself and enjoy it to feel all the deliciousness of the cake. Banh drift, vegetarian cake will forever be two special traditional dishes of the Vietnamese people volume_upcontent_copysharestar_border