Date cake

In our hometown, there is a kind of rice cake called "flower cake", or "jujube cake". It is called "jujube cake" because the shape is like a flower, and it is also made from the big and meaty red dates in our hometown. It is called "jujube cake".
This kind of date cake also has a custom in my hometown. It is a food specially made by mothers for girls during the Chinese New Year. It is a gift for their daughters to take home when they return to their parents 'homes on the second day of the second lunar year.
The meaning of jujube cake is very simple. A mother hopes that her daughter will grow younger and more beautiful like flowers in the new year. Her work and life will be booming, and she will be happier year by year.
Date cake has a variety of shapes. The surface is used as a round chassis, the edges of the rolled strips are patterned, and a layer of red dates is laid on it, and a layer of lace plate slightly smaller than the first layer is added on it. Auspicious ornaments with different meanings can be made on it to find your own good wishes and spiritual sustenance in life.
Nowadays, the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and as my parents move away from my hometown, these New Year customs in my hometown and the taste of the New Year in the past are like old black and white movies, still flashing in front of my eyes one after another, making me feel like it is lingering in my heart.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer people can make beautiful jujube cakes, and few of the younger generation seem to know how to make them.
I just made some relatively simple jujube cakes, and I still miss the jujube cakes of the past!