Beijing Eight Pieces is the most distinctive traditional product in Beijing-style cakes.
The stuffing of Beijing Eight Pieces is mostly fried stuffing. The main ingredients are white sugar, hawthorn, jujube paste, sand, etc., plus some auxiliary materials such as nuts, osmanthus, roses and honey. Delicate silk, soft taste, with the sweet fragrance of honey, so it is also called "honey stuffing".
The general characteristics of Beijing Eight Pieces are: white color (if you use soybean oil and rapeseed oil to make dough, the skin color is slightly yellow), crisp and soft taste, pure sweet and salty taste, in addition, there are wine fragrance, milk fragrance, jujube fragrance, bean fragrance, kernel fragrance and natural flower fragrance, etc. At present, there are eight shapes of eight pieces, such as oblate, wishful, peach, apricot, kidney, jujube flower, lotus leaf and oval, and eight kinds of fillings, such as rose, banana, plum, sugar, jujube paste, bean paste, bean paste and salt and pepper. This is a new meaning of Beijing Eight Pieces. Because the Eight Pieces of Beijing originated from the imperial palace, they basically retained their original characteristics in ingredients, production methods, and the shape and flavor of the finished products.