White Sugar Cake or Lunjiao Cake is a traditional Chinese snack with a long history in rice pudding pastry. It has a soft texture, sweet flavor, and a strong aroma of white rice, making it a special flavor.

There is no secret to make the traditional white sugar cake, nor do we need any family recipe, just pay attention to the fermentation time and use the freshly ground white rice syrup to make white, soft and tough white sugar cake (Lunjiao Cake)

The production of white sugar cake is very simple and convenient, soak the white rice overnight, add water and grind it into a rice syrup, add sugar, ferment the white rice syrup with yeast, and then steam it to make the semi-transparent, crystal and snow-white cake. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're doing.

Information

White rice (soaked overnight in refrigerator) 150g water 220ml sugar 70g salt 1.5g instant dry yeast 1.5g

★Rice milk 400ml

Method

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Allow 150g of water to be soaked in water. Rinse 150g of white rice under running water or wash several times (3-4 times) until the water is clear.

② Add water and refrigerate to soak overnight or for 12 hours.

③Drain the water from the white rice and set aside.

④Prepare 220 ml of water, take out a tablespoon and put it in a bowl and set aside.

⑤Add a small portion of about 50-60 ml of water to the soaked rice, and beat it with a blender to make a rice paste for about 2-3 minutes at high speed.

6 Add the rest of the water to 70g of sugar, 1.5g of salt, and cook until the sugar is dissolved, you don't have to bring the sugar water to a rolling boil, small bubbles will do, around 70°C.

⑦ Pour the hot sugar water into the already beaten rice syrup and stir well.

⑧Pass the rice syrup through a sieve, set aside and let it cool for about 30 minutes (around 30°C).

Add 1.5g teaspoon of instant yeast to the 1 tablespoon of water removed earlier, stir to dissolve and mix into the cooled rice syrup.

9 Ferment the rice syrup for 3 hours, in the microwave or oven is recommended. Put a cup of hot water in the oven or microwave to raise the temperature to speed up the fermentation.

⑩Steam over medium-high heat for 20 minutes. Remember to stir the rice milk before pouring it into the steamer basket, and grease the steamer's mold (7-inch round, 18cm) with a layer of oil.

? Let it cool and then take off the mold and cut the pieces.