Date flower cake, rice cake, date steamed bun (Flower style steamed bun and flower steamed bun)

Overview

Date flower rice cake is a Han folk snack and can be given as a gift during the Spring Festival. Because the shape is like a flower, this kind of rice cake is called flower cake, or jujube flower cake. Today I will share with you a flower cake shaped like a magpie ascending a plum blossom.

Tags

• staple food
• pasta
• home cooking
• steamed bun hanamaki
• aluminum-free baking powder
• cocoa powder
• food coloring
• jujube
• red yeast rice
• yeast
• plain flour

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients. Ordinary flour: 800g, yeast: 6g, aluminum-free baking powder: 2g

   

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 Red yeast rice: appropriate amount; cocoa powder: appropriate amount; food coloring: appropriate amount

   

4. 4 Press the red yeast rice into powder, add water and boil, filter out the residue with gauze, leave the red yeast rice water, and set aside to warm. You can also buy ready-made red yeast rice powder and mix it directly with the noodles. I feel that the red yeast rice water I make is more reliable.

   

5. 5 Mix yeast and baking powder into flour and mix well. Take two small amounts of flour and mix them with cocoa powder and red yeast rice water to form a two-color dough to make plum blossoms and tree trunks.

   

6. 6 Place the red dough and brown dough in separate containers, cover them with moist drawer cloths, and let them ferment separately in a warm place.

   

7. 7 Mix most of the remaining flour with warm water to form a white dough, cover the dough with a moist drawer cloth, and ferment in a warm place.

   

8. 8 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.

   

9. 9 Cut the mixture into small strips.

   

10. 10 Take a jujube and wrap the rolled noodles around the jujube placed vertically.

    

11. 11 Pinch the ends of the noodles to form a drop shape.

    

12. 12 Pinch out a few of these shapes and use them as borders for the flower cake.

    

13. 13 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.

    

14. 14 .Surround the flower cake into a circle according to the curvature of the circular base. The center of the circle is filled with jujubes.

    

15. 15 Roll out another dough piece and cover the area covered with jujubes in the center of the circle.

    

16. 16 Spread another dough piece larger than step 15 as the top cover of the flower cake.

    

17. 17 Use brown dough to roll into long and thin strips, and arrange them into the shape of a plum tree trunk as you like.

    

18. 18 Knead the red dough into small balls, which are the prototypes of plum blossom petals.

    

19. 19 Shape the ball into a petal shape, with the petals connected, and pinch the bottom where the petals are connected.

    

20. 20 Add another petal.

    

21. 21 Five petals are grouped into a group to form a plum blossom.

    

22. 22 .Gather the petals so that they gather toward the center.

    

23. 23 Use a toothpick to take a small amount of white flour to make a stamen, and fix the stamen in the middle of the flower. One plum blossom is done, follow this method to make several plum blossoms.

    

24. 24 Take a small piece of white dough and roll it into a long strip to make the magpie.

    

25. 25 Tie the noodles into a knot.

    

26. 26 Stretch both ends of the knotted noodles outward, making one end the magpie's head and the other end the tail.

    

27. 27 Flatten the magpie's tail and shape it. Use a knife to cut out the texture of the tail feathers, just make the knife mark without cutting it off.

    

28. 28 .Pinch out a pointed mouth on the head of the magpie.

    

29. 29 Use two red beans or mung beans to make the magpie's eyes. Press the beans firmly once secured.

    

30. 30 Place plum blossoms and magpies on the top of the flower cake. After everything is fixed, secondary fermentation is carried out.

    

31. 31 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 20 minutes.

    

32. 32 Use chopsticks to dip in food coloring and garnish according to personal preference. (END)

    

33. 33 The flower cake means that life is prosperous and getting better and better every year. It has many shapes and can be used as auspicious ornaments with different meanings, expressing our hope for a better life.

    

34. 34 Chinese folk regard the magpie as a symbol of good luck and good luck; plum blossoms, also known as "primroses" in ancient times, are said to have four virtues and symbolize the five blessings, namely joy, happiness, longevity, smoothness and peace. "The magpie ascends the plum blossom" has the meaning of joy and good luck.