It may also be because the steam will run into the water chestnut cake during steaming, which will cause the water chestnut cake to soften. If you want to be hard, you can let it stand for a while after steaming, and then it will be hard after the steam evaporates.

Expand:

As a traditional dessert snack in Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces, water chestnut cake originally originated in the Tang Dynasty. At first, Tang Gaozong took horseshoes as a sacrifice to the throne. Later, by coincidence, the horseshoe was boiled into a paste, which made people feel similar to fresh horseshoe. So later processing, slowly appeared snack water chestnut cake.

Nowadays, horseshoe cakes are usually steamed with sugar water and horseshoe powder. The finished products are translucent, not only soft and smooth, but also tough, which is especially sweet and refreshing to eat. In addition, horseshoe powder is also rich in phosphorus, which is of great benefit to the development of bones and has a very good eating effect.