Zaohua New Year cake is a kind of Han folk snack. It can be used as a gift during the Spring Festival. Because the shape is like a flower, the New Year cake is called Huagao, or Zaohua cake. Huagao is one of the most annual food during the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, every family will make all kinds of flower cakes with auspicious meanings. Today, I would like to share with you a magpie on the plum blossom. -
Step1:Prepare the ingredients. Common flour-500g, yeast-4g, non aluminum baking powder-1
Step2:Jujube-250g. After washing, put it into cold water and start cooking. Remove the controlled dry water immediately after boiling. Don't cook it too hot. Steam it at the back to avoid overheating.
Step3:Monascus powder - 2G; cocoa powder - 2G; edible pigment - appropriate amoun
Step4:Mix the yeast and baking powder into the flour. Mix well. Take a small amount of flour from it. Use cocoa powder and red koji rice water to prepare plum blossom and tree trunk with two colored dough.
Step5:Put the red dough and the coffee dough in different containers and cover them with wet drawer cloth. Ferment in the warm place respectively.
Step6:Make most of the remaining flour into a white dough with warm water. Cover the dough with a wet drawer cloth. Ferment in a warm place.
Step7:7. Let the dough ferment to the original One point five When it's twice the size, you can take the dosage. Cut some small dosage. Use it to make the border of the cake. Don't be too big.
Step8:Rub the dosage into small strips.
Step9:Take a jujube. Put the rubbed noodles around the jujube.
Step10:Squeeze the two ends of the noodles to form a water drop shape.
Step11:Make several of these shapes. Use them as the sides of the cake.
Step12:Take a piece of dough and use a rolling pin to roll out a round patch as the bottom support. The thickness is moderate and should not be too thin.
Step13:Make a circle around the border of the cake according to the arc of the round bottom tray. The center of the circle is full of dates.
Step14:Roll out another patch to cover the area covered with dates in the center of the circle.
Step15:Then spread a larger piece of dough as the top cover of the cake.
Step16:Roll the dough into thin strips. Put out the shape of plum tree trunk as you like.
Step17:Squeeze the red dough into little balls. This is the rudiment of the plum blossom petals.
Step18:Shape the ball into petals. Connect the petals. Tighten the bottom of the petals.
Step19:Five petals form a group, forming a plum blossom. Close the petals. Bring the petals together toward the center.
Step20:Use a toothpick to take a small amount of white surface to make a stamen. Fix the stamen in the middle of the flower. A plum blossom has achieved great success. According to this method, make several plum blossoms.
Step21:Take a small piece of white dough and rub it into strips to make magpies.
Step22:Knot the noodles. The noodles after knottin
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Cooking tips:1. Choose jujube. The cake will be more delicate and beautiful. 2. The surface should be a little hard and easy to shape. 3. Turn off the fire and cool for 3-5 minutes, then lift the lid to prevent the product from collapsing due to rapid cooling. There are skills in making delicious dishes.