Wife Cake – Sweetheart Cake
This ancestor to the wife’s cake is a kind of Chinese dim sum (We call it lao po bing in China). The outside is toasted into a seductive golden color, and the layers of the pastry are as thin as cotton tissue.
Servings 3
Ingredients
- 110 g of water
- 60 g of fine sugar
- 30 g of salad oil
- 70 g of glutinous rice flour
- 30 g of fried white sesame seeds
- 40 g of melon sugar
Water and Lard Dough:
- 100 g medium-gluten flour
- 20 g fine sugar
- 50 g warm water
- 25 g lard
Lard Dough:
- 80 g flour
- 45 g lard
Instructions
- First prepare the glutinous rice filling and prepare the melon candy.
- Break into pieces.
- Prepare sauteed white sesame seeds.
- Next we prepare glutinous rice flour.
- Put 110 grams of water in glutinous rice filling formula, 60 grams of fine sugar, and 30 grams of salad oil into the pot.
- Bring to a boil.
- Turn off the heat, pour glutinous rice flour, stir quickly and evenly.
- Pour in the melon candy and sesame seeds, stir well, let cool and put in the refrigerator for later.
- Beginning the production of water and lard dough, the lard dough, and building the treats.
- Add all ingredients from the water and lard dough into a bowl, and knead into a soft uniform dough.
- Divided into 10 even pieces, ball up, cover with plastic wrap, let it relax.
- To make the lard dough, put the ingredients stated above into a bowl.
- Knead.
- Divided into 10 even pieces.
- After 20 minutes of relaxing the dough, the first balls you made and flatten it, take a ball from the second dough and place onto that.
- Wrap into a ball and place the pinched side down
- Press down on it to flatten it out into an oval.
- Roll towards you
- Turn 90 degrees and flatten out again
- Roll up, turn 90 degrees, and flatten out again
- Continue this process for all 10 portions
- Take one of the pieces, roll into a ball and flatten. Place a small portion of the filling in the middle.
- Wrap the dough around the fillings, and place the pinched side down
- Continue this for the rest of the portions
- Brush the top with an egg-wash, sprinkle with sesame seeds, cut three slits in the surface layer of the cake. Then….time to bake! (180 degrees, 20 minutes )