Chaosu, Guangdong.

Wife Cake is a traditional specialty of Chaozhou, Guangdong, made with ingredients such as sweetened winter melon, wheat flour, cake flour, caramel and sesame seeds. It is the least expensive, simplest and best known of the Cantonese mooncakes.

Introduction

Folding out the layers of fluffy "wife cake" of the wonderful taste, from the inner layers, as thin as cotton paper shortcrust; to make the layers of this is quite a lot of work, first of all, in the material, the oil dough and shortcrust to deal with the separate, bread the oil into the shortcrust, and then put it into the shortcrust, and then put the oil into the shortcrust. The first step is to separate the dough from the shortcrust, and then fold the dough into the shortcrust, and repeat the process twice, utilizing the immiscibility of water and oil to create a crispy and fluffy texture.

As for the sweet filling, the traditional Chiu Chow "wife cake" is wrapped in winter melon paste, so it is also called "winter velvet cake", and after it was introduced to Taiwan, the sweet filling was changed to simple sugar, and the sweet flavor is just as charming and delicious.