Swan Crispy

Overview

I have been thinking about the swan cake for a long time, and I finally started making it today. The weather was very hot, and the pastry melted easily. Although the process of opening the pastry was troublesome, the hard work for a long time finally paid off when I saw the finished product. The first time I did it, the experience was not very good, but I believe I will do better next time.

Tags

• baking
• creative dishes
• all-purpose flour
• cake flour
• coconut
• lard
• rose bean paste
• warm water
• fine sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Mix all the water, oil and crust ingredients together to form a dough.

   

2. 2 Mix the pastry ingredients together and form a dough. The pastry dough is very soft and needs to be chilled in the refrigerator or freezer.

   

3. 3 Roll the dough into a rectangular shape.

   

4. 4 Put the pastry into a plastic bag and roll it into a rectangular shape. Place the pastry on the watery dough.

   

5. 5 Roll out into a rectangular shape.

   

6. 6 Fold both ends toward the middle, and then fold them in half again, similar to folding a quilt. Three quilt folding operations are required. After each folding, you need to wake up for ten minutes before proceeding to the next step.

   

7. 7 Cut out four dough pieces, about ten centimeters long and eight centimeters wide. Brush a thin layer of egg wash on the dough sheet.

   

8. 8 Stack the four dough sheets and cut vertically into strips about one centimeter thick.

   

9. 9 Add coconut to the rose bean paste and roll into a ball.

   

10. 10 Roll out the cut strips thinly.

    

11. 11 Add the coconut rose bean paste and wrap it up with the mouth facing down.

    

12. 12 Cut out the shape of a swan, making the body part thicker and the tail thinner.

    

13. 13 Preheat the oven in advance to 190 degrees for about 15 minutes. Half of it is baked in the oven and half is fried in order to see how effective these two methods are in shortening. The layers of frying are a little more distinct.

    

14. 14 Next, make the swan's neck: 20 grams of lard, 50 grams of cake flour, 8 grams of fine sugar, and 8 grams of egg liquid. Add lard to fine sugar and stir evenly, add beaten egg liquid, stir evenly with egg beater, sift in low-gluten flour and mix into a dough. Divide the dough into small portions, roll into long strips, shape them, and stick a black sesame seed on them as eyes.

    

15. 15 Use hot air at 180 degrees on the middle shelf of the oven for about six minutes.

    

16. 16 Bring the body and neck together.

    

17. 17 Very beautiful swan.

    

18. 18 Finished product.

    

19. 19 Finished product.