Kuih Badak Berendam is 100 calories a ball, which sounds harmless until you realise you just had four of them without thinking. The glutinous rice dough is dense with carbs (47 calories in just 20g of cooked dough), the gula melaka and coconut filling adds another 30 calories of pure sugar and fat, and then there is the santan pooled at the bottom that you are going to spoon up anyway. It is the kind of kuih that feels light because it is small, but the calorie density is actually pretty high for its size. If you are a regular kuih snacker, this is worth knowing about.
What changes the numbers most is the santan. A thin, diluted coconut milk sauce puts you at 80 calories per piece. A thick, festival-grade coconut cream version pushes you to 130. That is a 60% swing from the same basic kuih, just from how the gravy was made. The filling matters too: more gula melaka means more calories, obviously, but the coconut in the filling also carries fat. Nobody is saying avoid this lah, it is a genuinely good kuih. But if you are tracking, count the santan separately because that is where the invisible calories live.