Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey

Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey

Overview

Toad spits honey, also known as bean paste sesame cake. Bean paste sesame cake is a common variety in Beijing snacks. It is named because it is filled with bean paste. During the baking process, there is a natural opening on the edge of the sesame cake, and the bean paste spits out and hangs on the edge of the sesame cake, so people vividly call this kind of sesame cake "toad spits honey"

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare materials

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 1

  2. Add 2 grams of baking soda to the sifted flour, add an appropriate amount of water and make a smooth dough

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 2

  3. Cover the kneaded dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 15 minutes

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 3

  4. Divide the dough into small portions of 50 g each

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 4

  5. Take a small piece of dough and roll it into a thin sheet, then squeeze in the bean paste filling

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 5

  6. Wrap the edge tightly with a tiger's mouth, remove the excess dough, flatten the dough gently, and roll it into a round shape

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 6

  7. Dip some water around it and roll in sesame seeds

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 7

  8. Place them one by one on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 8

  9. Connect the oven settings to the mobile phone and preheat in advance. Turn the heat up and down to 185 degrees for 25 minutes. Bake for about 10 minutes and the dough will crack and spit out honey. After cracking, bake until the skin is slightly yellow

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 9

  10. Finished product pictures

    Old Beijing snack - toad spitting honey step 10