Date flower cake, rice cake and steamed bun

Overview

A few days ago, I shared a recipe for making a flower cake that is very popular with my eyebrows. Everyone liked it very much, and I was very happy! Today I will share with you a relatively simple flower cake that is very easy to learn. After mastering this method and giving full play to our imagination, we can make various styles of flower cakes. The Chinese New Year is almost here, let’s take action!

Tags

• staple food
• pasta
• home cooking
• aluminum-free baking powder
• food coloring
• jujube
• yeast
• plain flour

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients. Ordinary flour: 500g, yeast: 4g, aluminum-free baking powder: 1g

   

2. 2 Jujube: appropriate amount. After washing, put it into cold water and start cooking. After the water boils, immediately remove the water and drain it. Don’t cook it too high, and steam it later to avoid overcooking.

   

3. 3 Food coloring: appropriate amount

   

4. 4 Pour the yeast and baking powder into the flour, mix evenly, mix with warm water to form a dough, cover with a moist drawer cloth, and ferment in a warm place.

   

5. 5 When the dough has fermented to 1.5 to 2 times its original size, you can add the ingredients. Cut a few small pieces to make the edges of the flower cake, not too big.

   

6. 6 Cut the mixture into small strips.

   

7. 7 Take a jujube and wrap the rolled noodles around the jujube placed vertically.

   

8. 8 Pinch the ends of the noodles to form a drop shape.

   

9. 9 Pinch out a few of these shapes and use them as borders for the flower cake.

   

10. 10 Take a piece of dough and use a rolling pin to roll it out into a round shape as the base. The thickness is moderate but not too thin.

    

11. 11 Make a circle around the flower cake according to the curvature of the round base. The tip of each small edge must be pressed slightly to secure it. The center of the circle is filled with jujubes.

    

12. 12 Roll out another dough piece and cover the area covered with jujubes in the center of the circle.

    

13. 13 Spread another dough piece larger than that in step 12 as the base for the second layer of flower cake.

    

14. 14 Repeat step 11, arrange the edges and cover the center with jujubes.

    

15. 15 Repeat step 12, roll out a dough sheet and cover the area covered with jujubes in the center of the circle.

    

16. 16 Repeat step 13 and lay out a larger dough piece than step 15 as the base for the third layer of flower cake. You may ask, why do you have to cover it with two layers of dough every time? Isn’t it superfluous? In fact, it is not the case. The first layer of slices covers the jujube in the center to make the height of the center and the surrounding edges consistent to prevent the center of the flower cake from collapsing. The second layer of slices is the link between the past and the next.

    

17. 17 Repeat this method to add layers, the number of layers is arbitrary, and based on the principle that one layer is smaller than the other, it will form a tower-like shape.

    

18. 18 Make the flowers on the top cover. Take a small piece of dough and roll it into thin strips.

    

19. 19 Roll both ends toward the center in opposite directions at the same time.

    

20. 20 Roll them together until they form an "8" shape. The roll should be as tight as possible so that the flowers will look good.

    

21. 21 Use chopsticks to pinch the centers of the two circles to form a four-petal flower.

    

22. 22 Make a cut along the center line of each petal without cutting off the center, and the flower will become eight petals.

    

23. 23 Place the prepared flowers in the center of the flower cake top, and insert a small jujube into the core to secure it. Carry out secondary fermentation.

    

24. 24 Observe that the flower cake has increased in size and the surface of the dough is fluffy and rises. Steam it in a pot and cook it for 25-30 minutes. Because I made this one with more layers, I steamed it for 30 minutes. If the number of layers is small, the steaming time can be shortened accordingly.

    

25. 25 Use chopsticks to dip in food coloring and garnish according to personal preference. The top cover of this flower cake adopts the color spraying method: take a little food coloring and add an appropriate amount of water and mix it thoroughly, dip a toothbrush in the mixed coloring, and brush it through the sieve (sieve) at the location that needs to be colored. (END)

    

26. 26 My rice cakes grow every year.

    

27. 27 On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steamed buns with applique flowers.