Okjubu's Shanghai Butter Rice Cake
A chewy glutinous rice dessert with a crispy exterior and rich buttery flavor that fills your mouth—a unique twist on traditional rice cakes.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ Those who want a soft and filling snack using glutinous rice without flour.
- ⭐ Those who want to enjoy a unique dessert with a baked feel using an air fryer easily.
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Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings
- glutinous rice flour 150g
- 1 egg
- sugar 70g
- a pinch of seasoned salt
- milk 200ml
- butter 60g
- potato starch (or tapioca starch) 50g
- a little melted butter for greasing the mold
Recipe 🍳
- In a bowl, combine 150g glutinous rice flour, 1 egg, 70g sugar, a pinch of seasoned salt, 200ml milk, and 60g butter.
- Microwave the bowl briefly to completely melt the butter, then mix until smooth with no lumps.
- Add 50g potato starch to the batter and whisk until it reaches a thick, yogurt-like consistency.
- Grease the inside of a bread pan or air fryer container evenly with melted butter.
- Fill the prepared mold with batter to about 80% full, considering that it will rise during baking.
- Bake in an air fryer or oven for about 15–18 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
- Mix glutinous rice flour, egg, sugar, salt, milk, and butter; melt butter in microwave.
- Add potato starch to make a thick, yogurt-consistency batter.
- Fill buttered mold to 80% full.
- Bake in air fryer or oven for 15–18 minutes until done.
Cooking tips 💡
- Using tapioca starch instead of potato starch yields the original recipe's characteristic extra-sticky and chewy texture.
- The key is to adjust the batter to a thick, glue-like or yogurt consistency—not too runny.





