Plum blossom cake is a Wuxi flavor snack. It uses the best flour, baking powder and water into a paste, into the hot plum blossom mold, into the bean paste, fresh meat, lard, roses and other fillings, and then injected into the top syrup, sprinkled with sugar, red and green melon wire, with a hot iron plate covered in the cake mold baked to be completed. The baked plum blossom cake is golden yellow in color, shaped like a plum blossom, fluffy and tasty, suitable for both young and old.

Raw material recipe (to make 100 plum blossom cake, for example): 4 kilograms of white flour, 3.5 kilograms of bean paste, 150 grams of sugar, 500 grams of sugar lard, 75 grams of red and green silk, 15 grams of soda, 25 grams of soybean oil.

Method of production:

1, take 2 kilograms of flour into the barrel, add an equal amount of warm water, stirring with a long-handled iron spoon, let stand for 5-6 hours, and then add 2 kilograms of flour and 3 kilograms of warm water, and stir vigorously until the batter is uniform, viscous and no lumps. Dissolve the soda ash and pour it into the bucket and mix it well, then pour it into the copper kettle and wait for use. Another soybean oil into the container, add 50 grams of water into the water oil.

2, the mold with the iron cover on the stove with medium heat, with a brush dipped in water oil will be painted mold holes once, take the copper pot will be injected into the batter in order to mold holes (only half of the holes), and then the mold will be lifted up, slowly rotating, so that the batter is uniformly adhered to the wall of the holes, and then placed on the stove, will be inserted into the holes in the bamboo slice to the hole in the batter scraped to the hole in the four walls. Then add 35 grams of bean paste in each hole, 5 grams of sugar lard, and then take 15 grams of sugar evenly sprinkled in each hole, and then fill the holes with batter, sprinkle about 15 grams of red and green silk, cover and burn for 2 minutes, open the lid and then evenly sprinkle 15 grams of sugar, cover the lid and then burn for 3 minutes that is cooked. Open the lid with a spatula to separate the plum cake from the mold, pick up the plate.