Suzhou snack plum blossom cake originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and was invented by a family named Chen outside Gusu. It developed into the Qing Dynasty and became the most famous traditional pastry snack in Jiangnan area. According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he saw that it was shaped like plum blossom with attractive color and pretended to taste it. The entrance is sweet but not greasy, soft and crisp, with endless aftertaste, which is better than the Forbidden City. Clap your hands and applaud. Because it looks like plum blossom, it is named plum blossom cake, which has been passed down to this day.

Plum blossom cake is similar to Begonia cake, golden yellow, soft and delicious, suitable for all ages. Today's plum blossom cake inherits the traditional production method, and at the same time, it adds glutinous rice balls, green red fruits, pine nuts and so on. To make it taste more delicious, there are more than a dozen production methods such as bean paste, jam and nuts, which are baked in a special stove with more than a dozen raw materials such as flour, bean paste and sugar. The top of Yuanxiao is "very waxy", the raisins are "very fragrant", the bean paste inside is "very fine", the burnt smell of melted sugar, and colorful decorations. The red bean paste (or jam) is wrapped in a somewhat elastic shell, which has a soft taste, a thick sweet smell and warm stuffing, and delights all the taste buds to be put in your mouth. In autumn and winter, the best-selling plum cake is most popular with consumers. Holding a plum blossom cake in the cold wind warms the heart and stomach, and the number of plum blossom cakes sold in hot summer will be relatively reduced. Eating plum blossom cake, small mouth and small hands are covered with overflowing brown sugar juice, which always reminds people of that sweet childhood.

Plum blossom cake is a special food that many people like to eat. It is a very pleasant thing to stand in front of the stall selling plum blossom cakes and watch the production of plum blossom cakes. There are many clubs-shaped squares in a big mold. The flour juice poured down, and then one by one, like magic, became a delicious and steaming plum cake with fresh meat, bean paste, sesame seeds and plant lard. The really delicious plum cake must be soft and glutinous flour, sweet bean paste, thin skin and many fillings, and fast bean paste filling.