Lotus cake

Overview

The breeze blows, and microwaves appear in the lotus pond. The lotus leaves and flowers also sway gently, as if they are dancing, attracting dragonflies to fly and dance over the lotus pond, which is so beautiful... "Lotus" by Su Bin in the Southern Song Dynasty. The lotus palace looks like beauty makeup, and the lotus leaves are green in the wind. Last night was as cool as water, and the canal was in the middle of the water.

Tags

• pastries
• baking
• good looks
• afternoon tea
• all-purpose flour
• lard
• low gluten flour
• pink pigment
• red bean paste
• sugar beads
• white sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients

   

2. 2 Knead 30g lard and low flour into shortbread dough,

   

3. 3 Knead the remaining dough into a smooth dough, divide it into two halves, add 2 drops of pink food coloring to one half and knead well

   

4. 4 Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes. If it’s summer, refrigerate for 30 minutes

   

5. 5 Divide the pastry and water dough into 12 equal portions

   

6. 6 Take a piece of watery dough, press it flat, and put the puff pastry on it

   

7. 7 Push up with the tiger's mouth, wrap it up, roll it into a round shape and close the mouth downwards,

   

8. 8 Wrap everything, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 10 minutes

   

9. 9 Take a ball and roll it into a ox tongue shape with a rolling pin,

   

10. 10 Roll up

    

11. 11 Make everything, cover with plastic wrap and rest for 10 minutes

    

12. 12 Use a rolling pin again to roll it into a ox tongue shape,

    

13. 13 Roll up,

    

14. 14 Cover with plastic wrap and rest for 10 minutes

    

15. 15 Take a ball and press it in the middle

    

16. 16 Both sides move closer to the middle

    

17. 17 Use a rolling pin to roll it into a round cake shape with a slightly thicker center and thin edges

    

18. 18 Overlap another sheet, put 10g of red bean paste filling, push it up with the tiger's mouth, and wrap it up,

    

19. 19 Alternate colors and wrap them in the same way

    

20. 20 With the seam facing down, wrap everything

    

21. 21 Use a faster knife to cut into three slices, making a slightly deeper cut in the middle and a shallower edge. Preheat the oven

    

22. 22 Place on baking sheet, leaving enough space in the middle of each place

    

23. 23 Place in the middle rack of the oven and heat to 160 degrees for 15 minutes. Cover with tin foil for the last 5 minutes to prevent the color from getting too dark

    

24. 24 Take it out and sprinkle it with sugar beads, or you don’t need to sprinkle it,

    

25. 25 Beautiful😍

    

26. 26 Lotus palace-like beauty makeup

    

27. 27 Lotus leaves are used as clothes in the wind

    

28. 28 Last night was as cool as water

    

29. 29 Xianqu is in the middle of the water