June is Delight Month and to have fun, the cooks Seleste Tan and Mogan Anthony — the homeowners of Girl Wong, an East Village bakery that focuses on Southeast Asian confections — supply a blinding steamed Indonesian rainbow cake. The petite stack of skinny, multicolored, barely spongy gelatinous layers is supposed to be eaten by peeling them off one after the other. It’s made out of coconut milk and palm sugar, and the layers are dyed naturally, with beets, turmeric and pandan; the flavour is good, however not cloyingly so, with a whisper of coconut. Twenty-five p.c of gross sales of the cake shall be donated to the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBTQIA+ Youth. Related snacks, known as kuih, are offered on the store, as are wealthy desserts like a pandan tiramisù, a cassava cake and a ardour fruit-calamansi cake.
Indonesian rainbow cake, $3.25, Girl Wong, 332 East Ninth Avenue (Second Avenue), 646-422-7189, ladywong.com.
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