Sweetheart Cake

Name: Sweetheart Cake
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 180g Medium powder; 50g lard; 15g Sugar; 50g water; 70g Glutinous rice flour; 30g White sesame; 10g Coconut

by Yoha Kitchen

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

2

Wife pie~ It sounds very soft and warm. Wife pie is a Chinese dim sum originated from Chaozhou, Guangdong. The outer skin is baked into an attractive golden yellow, and the layers of pastry inside are as thin as cotton paper, which is extremely loose. The crumbs fell all over the floor after biting, and every bite tasted sweet like honey! It's like my wife gives you a sweet kiss and hug!

There is also a story about the origin of the wife cake:
According to legend, in Guangzhou, there was an old teahouse founded in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. It is famous for all kinds of dim sum and biscuits; one day, a dim sum chef from Chaozhou in the teahouse brought home a variety of signature refreshments from the shop. My wife ate it. I didn’t expect that after his wife ate it, not only did he not praise the dim sum in the store, but even said disgustingly: "The dim sum in the teahouse is so plain and unremarkable. Nothing can compare to my family’s dim sum winter melon horn!"
After the master heard this, he was naturally not convinced, and asked his wife to make "winter melon horns" for him to taste! His wife used winter melon paste, sugar, and flour to make a unique "winter melon horn"; this Chaozhou master first Eat, the flavor is really sweet and delicious, I can't help but praise the old lady's dessert!
The next day, this Chaozhou master brought the "Winter Melon Kok" back to the teahouse for everyone to taste. The owner of the teahouse was full of praise after eating, and asked who made this dessert in which teahouse? The masters said, "Yes." Made by a Chaozhou wife!" So the boss casually said that it was a "Chaozhou wife cake" and asked the Chaozhou master to improve it and sell it in a teahouse. The result was very acclaimed! "Wife cake" got its name.
As for the sweet filling, the traditional Teochew "wife cake" is packed with winter melon paste, so it is also called "wong mushroom cake". After being introduced to Taiwan, the content of the sweet filling was changed to pure sugar, with a sweet fragrance. It’s just as charming and delicious! And the glutinous rice flour filling that everyone uses now is also called Macau wife cake; no matter what it is called, the current wife cake has been improved with a variety of fillings, such as brown sugar, white sugar, red bean paste, purple sweet potato, etc. Wait;

Ingredients

Sweetheart Cake

1. First make the filling, put 70 grams of sugar, 35 grams of lard, and 110 grams of water in the milk pot. At the same time, weigh out glutinous rice flour and coconut.

2. Put the milk pot on a medium-to-small fire and bring it to a boil. Pour 70 grams of glutinous rice flour and stir evenly. At this time, turn the heat to a low heat. The glutinous rice flour is raw and not cooked. Wouldn't it be cooked in this boiling water? Don't worry. . . .

3. Mix everything well, turn off the heat, add white sesame seeds and coconut paste, mix well

4. The well-mixed fillings are spread flat on the plate. The freshly made fillings are more sticky, cover them with plastic wrap and put them in the refrigerator.

5. Prepare 2 bowls, put all the ingredients for the oil crust and the shortbread respectively

6. Cut the puff pastry and mix into a dough, knead the oily skin into a smooth dough, and let the dough cover with plastic wrap for about 30 minutes.

7. Divide the oily skin and shortbread into 15 pieces and divide them evenly. After rounding, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for a while

8. Wrap the oily skin after standing still into the shortbread, squeeze and close the mouth tightly, finish all in order, cover with plastic wrap and let it stand for a while

9. The frozen fillings are divided into 15 portions evenly

10. Take a dough, flatten it, roll it out into a beef tongue shape, and roll it up from top to bottom, just like making egg yolk puff pastry. This is the first time to roll it.

11. Let the dough stand for a while, flatten and roll it out for the second roll

12. Take the dough and roll it out, wrap it in the filling, pinch tightly and close the mouth

13. Put the prepared wife's cake into the deep-fried blueberry of the air fryer. There is no need to spread oil paper in the deep-fried blueberry. The surface of the dough is brushed with egg wash, and then three holes are made with a knife to avoid bursting the filling during the baking process.

14. In the air fryer, press the function button to select egg tarts, set the temperature to 200 degrees, and set the time for 18 minutes. Long press the preheating button to start preheating. The default preheating time is 5 minutes. These 5 minutes do not occupy the set baking time. When preheating, don’t put the fried blue into it

15. When the preheating is over, there will be a prompt sound. Open the lid and put in the frying pan. After closing the lid, the fryer will automatically run until the end of the baking time; the fryer has a bright window, which will light up after a while, so that you can see the baked goods. Happening;

16. The baked product is good, eat one while it’s hot

Tips:

1. Wife cake is a Chinese dessert. Chinese pastry cannot be separated from lard. The pastry can be wrapped in large or small pastry. The above method uses small pastry. The operation methods of these two pastry methods are the same. , The small package of crisp is more detailed, the large package of crisp is faster;
2. If you have made egg yolk pastry, you are not unfamiliar with pastry, you must pay attention to moisturizing during the entire operation, and cover with plastic wrap to avoid drying the surface of the dough
3. The temperature and time of baking in the oven: the upper and lower fire is 200 degrees, and the baking is about 20 minutes. The oven needs to be preheated to the set temperature in advance, for reference only
4. The air fryer needs to be preheated. This air fryer has a preheating function, and the preheating time does not take up the time for baking. After the preheating is completed, open the lid and put the fried blue, and the lid will be closed. automatic running;