Kueh Lapis Spekkoek

My mother baked several of these and gave them away to her friends for Chinese New Year. The perception is that baking spekkoek is a laborious task because one would have to stand by the oven and spread a new layer of batter every few minutes or so. It does not actually take as much time if you have prepped the oven temperature properly.

To judge if a spekkoek is of refined quality, one looks at the thinness of each layer. My mother would use a satay stick to prick any air bubbles f