Course Dessert or snack Main ingredients Glutinous rice Place of origin Philippines | Serving temperature Room temperature Food energy
(per serving) 100 kcal Main ingredient Glutinous rice | |
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Similar Kutsinta, Maja blanca, Palitaw, Suman, Ube halaya | ||
Sapin sapin
Sapin-sapin is a layered glutinous rice and coconut dessert in Philippine cuisine. It is made from rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, water, flavoring and coloring. It is usually sprinkled with latik or toasted desiccated coconut flakes sprinkled on top.
Contents
Traditional recipe of sapin-sapin calls for different flavors mixed in each layer such as ube halaya in the purple layer, langka in the yellow or orange layer, but the white layer is only plain flavored. The commercial version has all the layers with plain flavored but only added food coloring to reduce the cost.
Sapin sapin
Etymology
Sapin means "layers" while sapin-sapin means "layered" and the dessert is recognizable for its layers, each colored separately. It has been referred to as "a blancmange of several colored layers, sweetened and flavored with coconut milk".
