Beijing Fuling cake, also known as Fuling folder cake, is a nourishing traditional name in Beijing, and this cake is the best one to promote Taoxiang Spring. The crust baked with high-grade starch is as thin as paper and as white as snow, and the sandwich is made of a variety of nuts, supplemented by osmanthus fragrans, honey, white sugar and pure Yunnan-Guizhou Poria powder, which is sweet and delicious, instant in the mouth, refreshing and palatable. And is low in price, and can be used as a health food which is often eaten. Many places in Beijing have produced tuckahoe cakes. The name of Fuling cake is because the crust of the cake is very similar to Yunfu tablets in Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is called "Fuling cake".
It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi lived to 74 years old, which is directly related to her long-term consumption of medicinal diet. Among the 13 published prescriptions for reinforcing Cixi, Fuling cake has the highest frequency of use. In order to preserve health and prolong life, Empress Dowager Cixi adopted the advice of a doctor too much, and ordered the imperial kitchen to make "Fuling cake" with refined white flour and poria powder, which was often rewarded to ministers. Because Fuling cake not only has a fragrant flavor, but also has the effect of eliminating diseases and prolonging life, it has become a famous point in the court of the Qing Dynasty.