Begonia cake is one of the dessert recipes. It was created in the Qing Dynasty. It is famous because the shape of the cake resembles a crabapple flower. It later gradually became one of the cake snacks of the Han people in Suzhou.

Like the local plum blossom cake in Suzhou, it is a colorful snack with a long history.

Haitang cake uses peanuts as the main ingredient, the cooking technique is mainly baking, and the taste is sweet.

They have a flour crust on the outside and bean paste filling on the inside, baked in a special mold.

Characteristically, it is purple in color, shaped like a crabapple flower, sweet and soft, and suitable for hot eating.