Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of Wu wanted to win over Liu Bei of Western Shu to jointly resist Cao Cao in order to consolidate his foundation. Sun Quan and Zhou Yu pretended to recruit Liu Bei as Sun Quan's sister Shang Xiang's son-in-law. Zhuge Liang understood his plan and ordered the three armies to make various gift cakes and wedding gifts so that Sun Quan could not go back on his word. From then on, wedding cakes have become the supreme gift for people to marry their daughters, distributed to relatives and friends to convey the happy event and share the joy, and have been passed down to this day. Today, in Jiaodong, wedding cakes are still a must-have item at wedding banquets. However, the practices and shapes vary from place to place.
In Yantai, guests must be given three things at the wedding banquet: wedding cigarettes, wedding candies, and bagged wedding cakes. However, nowadays, there are very few homemade wedding cakes. Most of them are processed by purchasing food stores and baked by machines. In terms of materials and color, they are very different from those made by hand.
Jiaodong Wedding Cake
By BritneyHauck
- sweetening
- roast
- several hours
- ordinary
Steps for Jiaodong Wedding Cake
1
Mix all the ingredients, blend into dough, and wake up in a warm place.
2
After the dough is leavened, divide it into about 60 grams of dough each.
3
Press lightly and roll them into small cakes about 8 cm each to wake up.
4
When the cookies become significantly soft, place them in a pan brushed with a little oil and cover over low heat to slow burn.
5
Turn the cake often to heat it evenly.
6
When the cake is cooked on both sides, stand the cake upright, wear gloves and slowly turn the piping to color.Jiaodong Wedding Cake Make Tips
1. This cake is made of eggs, oil and honey, so it can be stored for a long time without spoiling. 2. Making this cake requires great patience, because it takes more than ten hours to ferment at room temperature of nearly 30 degrees. If you don't have this patience, you can add water and yeast appropriately to shorten the time.