Comments on: Rainbow rice cake (mujigae ddeok)

By: hyojlee

hyojlee — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:32:53 +0000

I am a Korean and planning a wedding – most guests won’t be Koreans. Do you think this can work as a wedding cake? I want to bring some Korean idea into our wedding but I realized that we don’t have a place to order ddeok in my town.
A few concerns are
1. Will it be easy to cut and be served?
2. How long will it be good? I think I need to make this by myself with some help of friends. To make cakes that will be 100-200 small pieces… I may need at least couple days.

Thanks!!

By: mokpochica

mokpochica — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:19:39 +0000

I use the steamer basket that came with my rice cooker to make mujigae ddeok. I steam it right in the rice cooker and it works great. I just cover the bottom of the plastic steamer insert with a paper towel cut in a circle–I do this because it has holes in it. I can’t make the cake quite as tall as I might if I had a better steamer, but it works.

By: Maangchi

Maangchi — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:00:19 +0000

I don’t know the answer without seeing your rice flour. Check this out please. http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/mepssalgaru

By: teesh

teesh — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:51:51 +0000

Hey Maangchi, I really want to make this rainbow cake and i even bought rice flour.. the condition where the flour was stored was quite cold but it wasn’t frozen rice flour…
Do you think that would still work??

By: SAJMALG_

SAJMALG_ — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:13:09 +0000

i want to try it .. but i have question can use my own flour ?

By: Maangchi

Maangchi — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:40:13 +0000

“we had an awful fight!so that’s my way to apologize..” cute~ : )
I think you need a steamer to steam the rice cake. You can use a small bamboo steamer, too.

By: Renana

Renana — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:57:04 +0000

Hi Maangchi!!!
first of all i have to say that i absolutely lovvvvvvveee your site!!!and your videos! they’re so fun and cheery!!!and its seems like you’re really putting you heart into it!
so thank you for that=]
and second…i really want to make this cake to my brother’s birthday today and its really important too ,cause we had an awful fight!so that’s my way to apologize=](and also its one of the few recipes i can make…see i eat only kosher food!=] but i’m finding my own ways to try them=])
but i don’t have that big of a steamer like yours…there’s maybe another way to do this awesome cake without a steamer??

By: slice79

slice79 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:30:59 +0000

Maangchi.. I bought frozen rice flour from a different korean store today. I’ve made this dduk before but with a rice flour that had no salt. This one has ingredients listed as: Flour, Water, Salt. Will the dduk turn out salty or do you think I can use it? You commented to someone else to use one without salt so I wasn’t sure if it’s worth the time to try it. If this is not the right rice flour, what can I do with it? Also, Do you think I can make this in a steamer that fits on top of a pot? Before I borrow my Emo’s huge steamer like the one in your video, but I was wondering if I could just fill the steamer basket that came with one of my pots. I know that all the holes are covered then so i was just wondering if you’ve ever tried it.

By: jlove212

jlove212 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:58:28 +0000

i made this for my korean project but instead of food coloring i used natural ingredients it was really good. i also used eun heng and dae chu for the topping

By: alsk20

alsk20 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:05:30 +0000

I don’t have a steamer is there a way to make this without one?