Make A Two-color Hair Cake with Pumpkin to Welcome Halloween

Name: Make A Two-color Hair Cake with Pumpkin to Welcome Halloween
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 150g Pumpkin puree; 300g Flour; 2g yeast; 100ml Light cream; 150ml milk

by Little Gourmet Master

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h

Serving

5

Halloween is coming soon. Halloween is a traditional holiday in the West, on November 1st every year. Because on Halloween, children will carry pumpkin lanterns, wear all kinds of weird costumes, and go from door to door to ask for candies. So Halloween is also called the Pumpkin Festival. It is a traditional feature to make pumpkin lanterns and eat pumpkin cakes on Halloween.
It’s the season for eating pumpkins. Let’s make a two-color hair cake with Chinese characteristics from pumpkins.
Pumpkin is a good thing. It has the functions of replenishing qi, reducing inflammation and pain, detoxification and insecticide. Pumpkin itself contains special nutrients, which can enhance the body's immunity, prevent vascular arteriosclerosis, and have the effects of cancer prevention, beauty, and weight loss. Eating more pumpkin can make the stool smooth and the skin plump, especially for women. Eating more pumpkin can also prevent and treat high blood pressure, diabetes and liver disease, and improve human immunity. Chen Xiuyuan, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said: "Pumpkin is a wonderful product for nourishing blood."
The two-color hair cake is full of milk, wheat and pumpkin sweetness, very delicious! very healthy!

Ingredients

150g Pumpkin Puree
300g Flour
2g Yeast
100ml Light Cream
150ml Milk

Make A Two-color Hair Cake with Pumpkin to Welcome Halloween

1. First steam the pumpkin (the pumpkin skin contains a lot of nutrients, so there is no peeling), and press it into a puree

Make A Two-color Hair Cake with Pumpkin to Welcome Halloween recipe

2. Pumpkin dough: 150g cooked pumpkin puree, 300g flour, 2g yeast, and 100g light cream. Put all the ingredients of the pumpkin dough into the bread and knead it into a smooth dough

3. White dough: 300g flour, 2g yeast, 150g milk, 100g whipped cream. Put all the ingredients of the white dough into the bread machine and knead it into a smooth and elastic dough

4. Cover the mixed dough with plastic wrap and leave it in a warm place for fermentation. When the two kinds of dough have doubled in size, fermentation is complete; knead the developed dough into a smooth and bubble-free dough

5. Roll 2 doughs into rectangular dough pieces of the same size, and brush a layer of oil on the white dough pieces

6. Then put the yellow noodles on top, brush a layer of oil on the yellow noodles, and stack them together.

7. Roll up the two dough sheets, after rolling them, flatten them with a rolling pin

8. Cut in the middle and divide into two

9. Fold it into a pie

10. Put it on a steamer covered with greased paper

11. Put enough water in the steamer, boil, turn off the heat, put the steamed cakes in the steamer for secondary fermentation, for 30 minutes. Two fermentations are very important and cannot be omitted

12. After the second fermentation is over, turn on the heat, turn the high heat to medium heat and steam for 20 minutes, turn off the heat, and take out after 5 minutes.