Ingredients for making Huzhou sesame cakes

How to make sesame cakes: Take 500 grams of neutral flour as an example (make 20 pieces). First, add 300 grams of flour, 60 grams of fat (salad oil or lard can be used) and 120 grams of boiling water. Water and oil surface. Add 200 grams of flour and 100 grams of fat (salad oil or lard can be used) and rub it into a dry pastry. The second is to cut the water and oil noodles and dry pastry into 20 pieces each, then wrap the dry pastry into the water and oil noodles, flatten it and roll it into an oval shape, roll it up and turn it 90 degrees, roll it out into an oval shape and roll it again. Get up (this is called the double rolling method). The third step is to use a rolling pin to roll the dough vertically from the center to all sides, and roll it into a medium-thick dough with a diameter of 8CM and thin sides. Turn the dough over and wrap it with 8 grams of filling (you can choose sweet or salty filling as you like). ), close and press into an oblate round cake shape with a diameter of 6CM. Fourth, brush the surface of the sesame cake with egg wash, dip it in shelled white sesame seeds and put it on the baking sheet. Fifth, the oven temperature is 250-280°C, place it in the baking pan and wait for 20 minutes until the surface turns golden. Features of the product: golden color, beautiful shape, pine and crispy, melts in your mouth. This is a dessert with high technical requirements and is also part of the assessment for pastry chefs. It is also called crab shell yellow in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. If 500 grams of flour is made into 5 pieces and rolled into an oval shape, it is called Changzhou’s famous snack: hemp cake.