One of the hardest things to resist when you’re at a kopitiam (new concept coffee shop) is the kaya toast, or coconut jam toast. The bread is so airy and light that when it’s toasted, it tastes so good with all that butter and kaya oozing out at every crunch.

But I’ve only ever ordered it once or twice in all the times I’ve been to a kopitiam. I just don’t believe in paying rm2-3 for two slices of bread, no matter how good it tastes.

And it’s so-oo easy to replicate at home too. I can get a whole loaf of this airy bread for around rm3 at Tesco or around rm2 at the market. Yes, a whole loaf, not two slices!

One loaf is enough for our family of five to have one heck of a teatime party, I tell you. It’s perfect too for when visitors or my nieces/nephews drop by. It’s cheap, it’s yummy, everybody loves it especially the kids.

The trick to getting it to taste like the ones at the kopitiam is to slob on lots of butter and kaya. That’s what makes theirs so yummy (and fattening too !).

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