chestnut cake
By JoannieBoehm
Ingredients: flour,sugar,water
Recipe Recommendations
- flour appropriate amount
- sugar appropriate amount
- water appropriate amount
- sweetening
- baking
- ten minutes
- ordinary
Steps for chestnut cake
1
First of all, you should peel the sugar-fried chestnuts you buy from outside, just the chestnut meat. Because I eat less, I cook less. If I make about 10 small cakes, it will be enough, but if I eat them as a family, I have to buy more sugar-fried chestnuts. If the chestnut skin is too hard to peel, people with a strong floor at home can throw the chestnuts. They must use hard so that a hole can be cracked and it will be much easier to peel!
2
If you have a small rolling pin like mine at home, it would be best. If you don't have it, you can use a larger one or a spoon, but using a spoon may be slower. Remember: never use a juicer and other machines to make it convenient. That will not only damage the machine, but the chestnut sauce made is not delicious! Make sure it is handmade!
3
Then start to smash the chestnut paste, and remember that there must be no water in the bowl now, otherwise the chestnut sauce that is smashed will not only be very thin, but will not taste chestnut after the cake is finished and will not taste delicious! So be sure to smash it dry and not use too much force. That will throw the chestnuts out of the bowl and waste a lot of ingredients.
4
Mash the chestnuts like this. The standard is that they will break if they are rubbed with your hands. If a little sticks to your hands, it will be fine, and it will be fine if you feel a little dry!
5
Now put in some water, place the water at two-fifths of the chestnuts, and then stir them together. Use both chopsticks and a rolling pin to stir into chestnut paste. Just like this, keep stirring until evenly, and then continue to smash with a rolling pin. This time, I will smash it for a while and stir it until it reaches the bottom.
6
By the way, I forgot to introduce it just now. It's normal for this to happen in the middle! Don't think that the chestnuts are bad or anything, look at the half-finished situation.
7
Continue to stir and smash the above! You can smash it to the way it is now. It looks a bit like peanut butter, a little sticky, thick and a little granular. If you like to eat something with a stronger flavor, you can put less water in it, but the color will not be very good!
8
Then put the smashed chestnut sauce into a larger basin or bowl. Next, we add flour, glutinous rice flour, and egg white if you want, which will be more soft! Because there were no rice noodles at home at that time, I could only put flour in... There were no eggs at home... So I didn't put egg white in it, so the food was not very delicious... So remember to put the rice noodles in it, otherwise it would be very dry and not very delicious, dry!
9
Add flour below, or add a little sugar if you think it's not sweet enough.
10
Stir with a spoon into these lumps, and then you can mix the dough with your hands.
11
This dough is soft and harmonious, and not particularly soft, which is great!
12
Then rub it into thick strips like this.
13
Then cut it into such doses.
14
Rub one by one into these balls. Remember not to rub with the side cut with the knife. Be sure to use the front and smooth side facing outward to rub into a ball with your palm.
15
Then gently tap it with the palm of your hand and it becomes this cookie. It's a pity that I didn't put in the rice noodles, otherwise it would be very delicious! Before patting this small cake, you only need to sprinkle a little raw flour on the chopping board and you don't need to spread it very evenly, but you must make sure that there is no water or oil on the chopping board! This way it won't stick to the chopping board.
16
You can bake these small cakes one by one. It's best not to use an oven, but to use a pan. It's best not to stick to the pan. When baked, they will look like this.
17
Because there are no glutinous rice noodles and egg whites, the surface is a little dry and slightly mushy, which is a bit of a failure, but I promise that this will not happen as long as I carefully add glutinous rice noodles and egg whites!
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It feels a little dry without adding glutinous rice noodles, but I still have to emphasize that you must add glutinous rice noodles and egg whites! (*^__^*) Hehe! By the way, I also made pumpkin cakes, but the pumpkin needs to be steamed first, steamed and mashed into mud, and then made with the same flour and the same proportion. The cakes made must be bigger than the chestnut cakes, remember! Let's talk about it for everyone here! I'm tired and I'm going to rest! I will upload anything else to you in the future!