1 Difference between brown sugar hair cake and jujube cake

Brown sugar hair cake is a kind of pastry made with brown sugar as the raw material, and will also use flour, eggs, butter and other ingredients, the feel of fluffy, a little similar to brown sugar steamed buns, the surface is smooth, there is no pits, small holes.

The date cake is one of the top ten pastries, is the Qing dynasty palace imperial pastries, the main ingredients are jujube, flour, eggs, its flavor is sweet, soft and sticky texture, the surface has pits, small holes, compared to brown sugar cake, more soft and sticky, similar to the texture of the cake.

2 Why brown sugar date cake is not fluffy

If the production of brown sugar date cake is not fluffy, there are several main reasons.

1, the choice of flour is not correct, in general, the production of brown sugar date cake need to choose gluten-free low gluten flour, so that the production of ingredients will be fluffy, soft and sticky.

2, the egg is not stirred evenly, there are particles, so add the date cake and can not be fully fermented, resulting in date cake does not appear fluffy, it is recommended to use a whisk to mix.

In addition. In the production of date cake can add some corn oil, yeast powder and other leavening agents, can increase the fermentation rate to a certain extent, to improve the fluffiness of date cake.

3 date cake can use high gluten flour

Generally not recommended.

A variety of flours on the market, simple can be divided into high-gluten flour, medium-gluten flour, low-gluten flour three, and in the production of date cake, the general use of low-gluten flour, because of its fermentation rate is better, if it is used with high-gluten flour, generally is not recommended, because high-gluten flour protein content is high, it is not easy to form a ball, used to make date cake is difficult to fermentation, which leads to date cake is not fluffy, and the hard, dry situation. and shriveled.

4 steamed in the pot how to do date cake

Ingredients: 10 dates, 70 grams of water, 150 grams of flour, 2 eggs, 30 grams of sugar, 2 grams of yeast.

Method:

1, put the sugar, eggs, yeast together in a bowl and mix well.

2, add the flour, half of the red dates and mix well, until no particles.

3: Brush a thin layer of oil on the bottom of the container, pour in the batter, and sprinkle with the remaining dates.

4. Steam in cold water for 30 minutes, remove from heat and simmer for 5 minutes.