Lapis Surabaya is very famous, legendary, authentic and everyone’s favorite for special events like Christmas, Chinese New Year, Eid al-Fitr, Birthdays, and other special events.
Surabaya layer cake is one of the moist cakes that is often used as a souvenir from the City of Heroes, Surabaya in Java Island, Indonesia.
Surabaya layer cakes consist of three layers, yellow, brown, and yellow again.
Made from simple ingredients plus eggs, this gives Lapis Surabaya a soft texture and sweet taste, special and soft on the tongue. The soft, savory and sweet taste of the strawberry jam attracts and is a favorite of local and foreign tourists.
This is a brief history.
In Surabaya this layer cake is called Spiku, comes from Dutch, namely spec and koek.
The word spec means pork fat. Meanwhile, the word koek means cake. Even so, this layer cake does not use pork in its making.
This layer cake is associated with pork fat not without reason. The name arose because the cake has many layers that look like fat on pork belly.
Spiku was develop during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia, inspired by European layer cakes. Dutch colonist often produces this cake.
Then it was modified and adapted by Chinese descendants in Indonesian.
So go ahead and jump right into this historic cake adventure.