A little celebration for the lunar new year, which happened at the end of January. My sis mentioned she was going to try to make Nian Gao, aka New years cake and that triggered the idea for me, too. It helped that for once I had the ingredients on hand. I did another baked version this year, though someday I will try the steamed version. The recipe I tried was an individual cake recipe, so I used a muffin pan. I didn’t get the brown chewy crust like it should have. They were okay, not great, possibly due to the changes in pan. Steamed next time. For reals.

For comparison here is last year’s cake.