Jembrana, Bull Racing Center

Balinese Cake and Pie

The Balinese have many kinds of ceremonies such as temple festivals. Cremation and wedding ceremonies. In all the ceremonies, there is always the ritual offering in leaves, flower and cake. The raw material for such a cake is rice both black and white rice. The cakes are made of rice powder. The shape and form of them are symbolic; having philosophy of the region. The main figures in the trinity are also created in the form of Balinese cake. Bird and other beasts, flower, leaf are the inspirations to create such a cake. It will be more interesting for tourist to watch Balinese people to make Balinese cake few days before the temple festival. From producing rice powder to frying the cake at the temple’s kitchen. The female members of the village wearing traditional costumer flock together in the temple for preparing temple festival.

In the other hand, there is other kind of offerings, which are dominated with cake locally known as canang meraka. In this case, Balinese brings the offering to the temple individually and after praying then they eat the cake in the family compound. The cake is not symbolic, it is made in conjunction with the function, for snacks. The cake is boiled or fried. There are two ways to arrange the offering: put in bamboo baskets or as cake arrangements, which, could be seen in the ‘’gebogan procession’’. For those staying in the Jembrana regency, it is suggested to visit temple festivals in the many temples such as: Jati, Candikumara, Mertasari, Majapahit, Rambut Siwi, Perancak and also at Jagatnatha temple in the town of Negara. The Balinese also create cake for only one purpose snack. The cake and pie for a snack could be found is the traditional market at Melaya, Negara, Mendoyo, and Pekutatan as the country town in Jembrana regency. The function of the cake is for offerings and snacks. (Lanus Sumatra)