Puto Lanson

Puto Lanson

This delicious cassava cake from Iloilo is known by a lot of different names. Puto Lanson, Aripahol, Puto Taktak, and perhaps some other name in other regions of the Visayas. I would describe it as a spongier version of the usually dense cassava cake found in Laguna. The reason for this is the particular cooking method that is employed when making this cake. The uncooked ingredients are placed in tins that have perforations at the bottom and steam is forced up the mixture. This results in a sticky cake that although is still quite dense, is filled with a lot of holes inside where the steam passed through. The cakes are then usually topped with young coconut meat strips and rolled in 3s or 4s using a banana leaf.