You might be wondering how is baking related to Pilates? Totally connected! Baking keuh lapis is a patient game where you add and grill one layer by one layer to build up the cake.
By the time it almost reaches completion, it will take a toll on the arms and wrist joints as you need to get the piping hot tray out of the oven and back in again with each layering. Mind you, this cake has a load of eggs and it gets heavier with each layer added on.
It could take you hours depending on how thin each layer is! With that, you'd need foot-to-core engagement to upright your spine so you won't end up with upper or lower back pains when the cake is ready. Ankle mobility is important as well since you really want to get the tray from the oven to the table as quickly as possible without dropping or breaking anything. Of course, my arms and wrists too - the pivotal parts connecting with the object of concern.
Not only was the kueh lapis my first bake for the New Year, it was quite an endurance workout! The morale of this short story: Doing Pilates is really to prepare us for functional activities like these, so we can all grow gracefully into the golden years.
Perhaps, if I were not a rehab instructor, I'd be a less less less sugar baker 😉.
Time to savour every layer now. Yummy!
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