I've been seeing some of my Filipino friends posting photos of yemacake the past few weeks, and I promised myself I will try to make it when I get the chance
I never seen this cake when I was a young and only showed up in the last couple of years, I first saw it on blogs then the Filipino bakeries here in New Zealand started to sell them afterwards
The term “palitaw” is derived from the Filipino root word “litaw” which means “to float, to be seen, to rise, to appear or to emerge on to the surface”
They would combine the shredded coconut with lukewarm water and then manually press everything to squeeze out that pure, white and greatly prized juice of the flesh of the fruit from the tree that we, Filipinos, highly regard as “puno ng buhay” (tree of life)
