Sapin Sapin Roll

Sapin Sapin Roll is a colorful chewy and fun snack that are so easy to cook it just needs 6 ingredients to make. Simply mix together glutinous rice flour, all purpose flour, sugar, salt, milk, and food coloring or flavoring. Steamed in layers for a few minutes before being rolled in sesame seeds and it’s ready to be enjoyed.

Sapin Sapin Roll Recipe :

• 1 cup glutinous rice flour
• ¼ cup all purpose flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup coconut milk
• Food coloring and flavoring
• Sesame seeds

Steps:

1. In a bowl, mix glutinous rice flour, all purpose flour, sugar, and salt together. Make a well in the center and pour in coconut milk. Mix until there are no more lumps.
2. Strain the mixture. Divide into 3 bowls and add a different food coloring or food flavoring to each bowl. Here we’re using yellow, purple (ube flavored), and green (pandan flavored).
3. In a baking pan lined with parchment. Pour the yellow batter in. spread and place this in a steamer. Cover and steam for 5 minutes. Pour the green batter in, spread and steam for 8 minutes.
4. Pour the last-purple batter and steam for 12 minutes. Take it out to cool for a bit. Remove the parchment and start rolling. Cover or roll in sesame seeds.
5. Slice and serve!

What is Sapin Sapin?

Is a colorful chewy layered Filipino snack made of glutinous rice flour or rice flour, coconut milk or cream, water, sugar, food coloring, and flavoring. These are jazzed up with an array of toppings like ‘latik’ or ‘coconut crud’, freshly shredded coconut, coconut sugar, cheese, or any other toppings you’d like.

The name ‘Sapin-sapin’ comes from the Tagalog word ‘sapin’ meaning ‘underlayer’ like one would describe a cushion or blanket. Thus the word repeated twice emphasizes the many vibrant layers the dish has. Sometimes depending on the color it already has a specific flavor ingrained in many Filipinos’ taste buds; purple being made of ube halaya or ube flavoring, yellow sometimes a darker orange color for langka ( jackfruit ), with white staying as a non-flavored. If you do buy commercial sapin-sapin in the grocery stores there is a big chance that it might just be made with food coloring with no flavoring to cut costs. It would be best to buy at the local market or side street stalls where you can also ask for the flavor and ask for a certain topping you’d like to include since most of the time the coconut sugar and shredded coconut is packed separately.

How to make Sapin Sapin Roll?

To make this subtly sweet and fun kakanin or ‘rice’ based snack. All you need is to mix up a dry batter of glutinous rice flour, all purpose flour, sugar, and a bit of salt to help boost the flavors. Then pour in the coconut milk which gives off a bit of flavor and subtle nuttiness. Mix these until you have a nice smooth batter. To make sure there are no lumps, simply strain these before dividing them into 3 different bowls, or depending on how wide the tray is and how many layers you plan to make. Add your selected flavoring and or coloring to each bowl. In this recipe we’ll be using yellow food coloring, purple for ube flavoring, and green to make it pandan flavored. Pour your first batter in a tray that’s lined with parchment. This makes it easier to remove, you can also oil the bottom and the side to make it easier to remove later on. Place the tray in a steamer to steam for 5 minutes before pouring in the next batter. Make sure the first later is a little bit soft but not liquidy to avoid the colors from muddling together. After steaming these for 8 minutes, pour in the last batch and steam these for 12 minutes. Let these cool for a bit before taking the sapin-sapin out. 

Roll the sapin-sapin into a log before sprinkling one side with sesame seeds. You can also just simply roll the log in sesame seeds. Slice and Pair this delicacy up with hot or iced coffee, latte, hot cocoa or the traditional FIlipino tsokolate, tea, or even a nice cool glass of Sago at Gulaman or a Buko Pandan cooler.

Questions

• Does sapin sapin need to be refrigerated?

You can simply place this in a cool and dry place at room temperature for a day . But make sure to keep these in an airtight container. If you plan to keep this for a longer time ( a week or two ) place this in an airtight container in the fridge or a chiller. To reheat, steam for 5 – 10 minutes or place this in the microwave and heat these 1 minute at a time until it softened. 

• Can I cook sapin sapin in the oven ?

You can try the ‘bain-marie’ method which is similar to steaming but using an oven. 

1. Use a small or medium sized baking tray to pour your batter in.
2. The baking tray will be placed on top of a bigger tray. 
3. Pour water onto the bigger tray. If you can make it halfway high on the smaller tray.
4. Time it as normal as when you steam. Do make sure to preheat it 200°C or 390°F. Add more time if the layers are not slightly solid yet.

• Additional Sapin-sapin recipe ingredients

You can top the layers with cheese if you like a slight bite. Traditionally it’s topped off with latik which adds a different texture and more flavor into unflavored sapin-sapin. Others choose to use toasted coconut shreds or fresh coconut shredding with a mix of sugar to add more flavor. You can also ind people making chocolate sapin-sapin by mixing these with cocoa or chocolate milk powder then topping it with more powder or some shredded chocolate.

Try our other Yummy Colorful Filipino snacks : 

• Cheesy Ube Palitaw Balls ( colorful purple chewy mochi-rice cakes filled with cheese and covered in shredded coconut, sesame seeds, and sugar)
• No Oven Bibingka ( a fluffy Filipino rice based cake topped with cheese and salted eggs )
• Mango Graham Recipe
• Pastillas de Leche Recipe ( a sweet Spanish-Filipino milk based candy )
• Mango Ice Candy

Sapin Sapin Recipe Tagalog

Mga Sankap:

• 1 tasa glutinous rice flour
• ¼ tasa harina
• ¼ tasa asukal
• 1 kutsaritang asin
• 1 tasa gata ng niyog
• Food coloring at flavoring
• Sesame seeds

Paano Lutuin :

1. Sa mangkok, haluin ang glutinous rice flour, harina, asukal, at asin. Gumawa ng balon at ibuhos dito ang gata. Haluin ng mabuti.
2. Salain ang tinimplang batter. I-hati sa 3 at haluan ng ibat ibang food coloring o flavoring sa bawat isa. Dilaw, lila ( pang ube ), at berde ( pang pandan flavoring ).
3. Sa baking pan na may parchment. Ibuhos ang dilaw na batter. Ilagay sa steamer at lutuin ng 5 minuto. Ibuhos ang berdeng batter at i-steam ng 8 minuto.
4. Ibuhos at ikalat ng pantay ang lila na batter at lutuin ng 12 minuto. Tanggalin at palamigin ng konti bago tanggalin ang parchment. Irolyo at takpan ito ng sesame seeds.
5. Hiwain bago ihanda.