Super simple hawthorn cake

Overview

Hawthorn cake is sour and sweet, appetizing and digesting, and is a delicacy that many people like. Chinese New Year is coming soon, so hawthorn cake is indispensable, and it goes well with cooking and soup. Especially the gourmet yogurt hawthorn balls that are now famous on the Internet, it is the protagonist. The hawthorn cake I made is super simple. It only requires hawthorn and white sugar. It only uses three simple steps and has zero failure. Even a novice in the kitchen can easily make delicious hawthorn cake. I have a sister who is a pastry chef, and she told me that the usual take-out hawthorn cakes only use 1:1.5-2 of hawthorn and white sugar, which means that 1.5-2 pounds of sugar is added to one pound of hawthorn. I think this contains too much sugar, so the sugar content of my own cake is 70%, which is 7 taels of sugar per pound of hawthorn. I have done many experiments and found that this amount has the lowest sugar content. This amount can ensure that it will coagulate naturally without adding any coagulants and taste slightly sour. If you like it sweeter, you can increase the amount of sugar. If you reduce the amount of sugar, you need to use a coagulant to solidify, such as gelatine, agar, etc.

Tags

• snacks
• afternoon tea
• winter recipes
• hawthorn pulp
• white sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash fresh hawthorn.

   

2. 2 Remove the core. Be sure to remove the core completely without leaving any residue. Washing and removing the core is the first step. The amount in the formula is the amount of pure pulp, that is, the weight of hawthorn that has been pitted.

   

3. 3 The second step is to steam it in a basket for 15-20 minutes. When steaming, cover the pot with a drawer cloth to prevent steam from flowing into the pot during steaming and increasing the water content, which will affect solidification.

   

4. 4 Steamed hawthorns will also have soup flowing out naturally, and this doesn't matter.

   

5. 5 The third step is to pour the steamed hawthorn into the food processor while it is hot, add the required amount of sugar, and stir for 10 seconds. Just stir it into a puree. No need to over-stir. The color will become lighter after stirring for a long time, but other things will have no effect. If you don’t have any food processor at home, just crush it with a spoon. Once the hawthorn is cooked, it is easy to crush it. Just stir it with the sugar evenly while pressing.

   

6. 6 Pour the mixed hawthorn mud into a basin and let it cool to solidify naturally. Just cut it into pieces when eating. Isn’t it very simple!

   

7. 7 Cut it open and take a look. It's sour, sweet and delicious.