The most famous cakes in Yangzhou are Jiangdu Square Crisp, Melaleuca Oil Cake, Jade Shaomai, Ruyi Crisp and Yangzhou Square Cake.
1. Jiangdu Square Crisp
Jiangdu Square Crisp is a famous local pastry in Jiangsu, and it has been produced for more than 1 years. At first, it was round and shaped like a toad, hence the name Toad Crisp. Later, it was changed to square, renamed Fang Su, also known as Xiao Fang Su. This product is made of white flour, white sugar, sesame seed, sesame oil and other raw materials, supplemented by spices such as yellow diced and orange cake, through fermentation, kneading, wrapping, multi-layer folding and molding, and baking with slow fire. It is crispy and delicious.
2. Melaleuca oil cake
Melaleuca oil cake is a famous traditional snack in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is soft, sweet and tender, and has a clear hierarchy by using the method of clearing fertilizer and slowly fermenting. Diamond block, hibiscus color, translucent, the cake is divided into 64 layers, with layers of sugar and oil alternating, and the cake surface is covered with red and green silk, which is fresh and pleasing to the eye and soft and sweet to eat.
3. Jade Shaomai
Jade Shaomai is a local traditional famous spot in Jiangsu, which was initiated by Chen Buyun, founder of Fuchun Tea Club in Yangzhou. If you want to be sweet, put salt first, and add salt to refresh the sweetness, which can keep chlorophyll. This is one of the unique features of Yangzhou dim sum, with thin skin and green stuffing, color like jade, full of sugar and oil, sweet and fragrant.
4. Ruyi Crisp
Ruyi Crisp is a famous pastry of Han nationality, which belongs to Su-style pastry. It is sweet, fragrant, crisp and crisp, and it is a special food on Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Pour the flour on the chopping board, add lard and mix well to make dry pastry, pour the remaining flour on the chopping board, dig a pit, add lard, warm water and water to make pastry, knead it evenly, bake it for 1 minutes, roll it into a rectangular sheet with a walking hammer, evenly spread the sand stuffing on it, roll it into a double-tube shape from the upper and lower ends to the middle, cut it into small pieces with a knife, and leak the green body.
5. Yangzhou Square Cake
Yangzhou Square Cake is one of the characteristic cakes in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. It is sweet and soft, and used to be called Yunsi Cake. The raw materials are japonica rice flour, sweet bean paste, green plum, kumquat, melon seeds, cotton sugar and red and green silk. Mix the japonica rice flour with hot water and sugar into snowflake shape, knead it thoroughly, then chop the green plums and kumquat, and put it in the bean paste, sugar and melon seeds, and mix it evenly to make the kernel stuffing. Put the wooden frame with squares in a cage covered with clean and wet cloth, then put the rice cake with fruit stuffing in the squares, sprinkle red and green silk on it and steam it.