"Slot cake" is a "slot" shaped mold made out of cake, is a traditional northern confectionery, prevalent in the Beijing-Tianjin area, according to the "qing taolu class notes" records: 'Beijing people taboo "egg" word, the cake is said to groove cake, said its production of cake into the groove also'. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi love to eat morning meal groove cake, according to the Qing Dynasty Interior Ministry documents, in addition to the groove cake for the court to eat, but also as an offering to ancestors, visible groove cake in the cake status is quite noble.
The groove cake is made of egg whipped into foam, and then mixed with flour, sugar into a cake mud, poured into the groove after steaming cut into long squares, and then baked into the pastry, so it is named "groove cake", the cake body of the upper and lower and the four sides of the golden-yellow color zephyr, loose and not loose like a sponge, grab a handful of loose and return to its original state, the entrance! It is fluffy, fragrant, long-lasting, and resistant to preservation.
Beijing people do groove cake, in addition to prepare "flour, sugar", still have to prepare "eggs" (the old Beijingers called "chicken"), but sometimes lack of eggs, also do groove cake However, sometimes the egg is missing, so you can still make the cake, only with less egg flavor! The taste is still fluffy and delicious! Therefore, there is a saying in Beijing: "If you are missing this stinking chicken, you won't make the cake?" It means, "It doesn't matter if you're missing." When two people are arguing, if one person says, "I can't do this without you!" The other one would say back, "If you're not here, you can't do it without me?"
Today's groove cake, has omitted the process of steaming, most of them are directly baked, so the old wooden or metal "groove", almost replaced by inexpensive and convenient "paper cups", the shape of the cake body from the rectangular into a cup, so it is also known as "cup". Therefore, it is also known as "cupcake", color and taste from the original golden egg flavor, but also become more diverse, such as deep _ color chocolate flavor, light green matcha flavor, pink strawberry flavor? etc., but its happy and beautiful flavor will always remain the same, the bite is super happy and beautiful!
Second, the practice of groove cake
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 150 grams of low gluten flour, 80 grams of sugar, 30 grams of honey.
Steps:
1, room temperature eggs four, about 190 grams or so.
2, sieve the flour.
3, molds greased in advance.
4, room temperature eggs with sugar and honey, whipped with a whisk.
5, draw eight, lift the beaters head eight will not disappear, batter whipped on ok!
6, three times into the flour, pay attention to the mixing technique, do not draw a circle stirring.
7, mixed batter, three-dimensional full. Preheat the oven to 185 degrees.
8, into the laminating bag.
9, into the mold eight full, sprinkle sesame seeds, into the oven 185 degrees baking 20-25 minutes.
10, out of the oven.