Examples include buns, Chinese steamed cakes etc.

And fukuregashi, a kind of steamed cake with brown sugar, flour and baking soda, has also been produced in the area for a time.

Yet what the English refer to, generically, as pudding, Americans call steamed cake.

A steamed cake consolidates flavors in a pleasingly mushy fashion and insures moisture.

Manjū, a steamed cake filled with red bean paste.

Khaman dhokla look like little diamonds of corn bread, and with the first bite the steamed cakes have a similar density.

Nagasari is a traditional steamed cake made from rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with slices of banana.

Tiny seeds ground, mixed with corn meal and made into steamed cakes.

One evening dhoklas ($4), steamed cakes of chickpea flour flavored with cilantro and chili, were bland and dry.

The Zuni also grind the seeds, mix them with corn meal and make them into steamed cakes.