Steamed Rice Cake with brown sugar

My mom loves to cook "biko" or steamed rice cake. Everytime we were home, she eagerly prepare the ingredients and find way to cook it in the right way. Every occassion or even weekdays Biko is always present in our table. Cooking rice cake is not easy. There are lots of ways of cooking and style of the Biko. It has to be a lot of effort and patience to mix sugar and rice to have a better appearance and taste. Here is the list of ingredients needed for cooking:

glutinous rice

4 cups water

1 tbsp. vanilla extract

1 cup brown sugar

banana leaves ( optional )

grated coconut meat from 4 coconuts (reserve coco milk)

Cook glutinous rice in water just like you do with plain steamed rice.
In saucepan, pour brown sugar, coconut milk, and vanilla extract.
Mix, stir and let boil. Add cooked glutinous rice to coconut milk mixture and cook until thick.
Spread evenly on platter (or bilao) lined with banana leaves.
Slice and serve.

Note: It is best serve with hot native coffee or a cold softdrinks.