Lotus cake
Overview
Because of its shape, you can call it lotus cake or lotus cake. In fact, they are all traditional snacks from Suzhou and Hangzhou. Because the method is simple, it is very suitable for novices like me.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Materials are ready.
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Mix 250g of flour, 125g of water, 25g of sugar, and 40g of lard to form a water-oil dough. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts, add pink food coloring to one part and make it into pink dough, wrap the 2 pieces of dough in plastic wrap and let them rest for 30 minutes.
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Then mix 200g of low flour and 100g of lard to form a shortbread dough, wrap in plastic wrap and rest for 30 minutes.
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Divide the pink and white oil dough into 10 equal parts, and divide the pastry dough into about 20 equal parts.
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Flatten the pink water-oil dough and wrap a piece of puff pastry dough inside to close the mouth.
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Then flatten the white water-oil dough and wrap a piece of puff pastry dough inside to close it.
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Flatten the wrapped red dough and roll it into an oval shape.
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Flatten the wrapped white dough in the same way and roll it into an oval shape.
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Roll everything up from top to bottom and let rest for 10 minutes.
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Turn the dough 90 degrees and face it upright.
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Then roll it into an oval shape, and do the same with the white roll. After rolling out, roll it up from top to bottom and let it rest for 10 minutes. It is best to wrap it in plastic wrap when it is relaxing to prevent it from drying out. Repeat this 3 times.
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Roll the relaxed dough of the two colors into rounds respectively, place the white dough on the bottom and the pink dough on top, and wrap them with red bean paste filling.
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After wrapping, close and roll into a round shape.
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Use a knife to cut out the petals, making the edge just deep enough to reach the filling.
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Put oil in the pot, the oil temperature is 3-40%, put it in the pot and fry on low heat for about 4-5 minutes.
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Just put it on the plate.
