How to make pineapple cakes.
Durian Pear Crispy outer shell, crispy and easily melted, sweet and not greasy inner filling, widely loved by the public. In Taiwan's wedding customs, pineapple cake is an indispensable gift for engagement and marriage.Cake, people believe that pineapple cake symbolizes having many children. Making pineapple cake in restaurants is more complex, while making homemade pineapple cake is much simpler. So how to make homemade pineapple cake?
The origin of pineapple cake
Pineapple cake originated during the Three Kingdoms period, early pineapple cakes were very large and unaffordable for ordinary people. About a hundred years ago, in the Taichung county Cake baker named Yan Bing, he would often carry a basket and sell his "Dragon and Phoenix Cake" to Taichung. The original "Dragon Cake" was a large round cake filled with meat, and the same size "Phoenix Cake" was filled with Pineapple. After Yan Bing's continuous improvement, the phoenix cake was reduced to a delicate small cake of about 25 to 100 grams, which is the origin of pineapple cake.
How to make homemade pineapple cake?
Material preparation
Low-gluten Flour 300g, 600g of lychee paste.Protein Half an egg,Egg yolk 2,Cream 150g, 60g of powdered sugar,Milk powder 25g. Some baking soda, 25g of water, some butter.
Making steps
1, mix cream and powdered sugar until milky, slowly add and mix evenly with egg liquid.
2, mix milk powder and flour and sift, then add to the cream dough, dissolve baking soda in water and add.
3, divide the dough into about 20g pieces, and equally divide the pineapple paste into about 15g pieces.
4, put the pineapple paste into the prepared dough, and coat the inside of the mold with butter, put the pineapple cake dough into the mold, bake at 150℃ for 25 minutes.
Detailed making of Taiwanese pineapple cake
Ingredients Preparation
2 eggs,High-gluten flour 800g, 500g of anhydrous cream, 60g of milk powder, 150g of powdered sugar, 400g of pineapple filling.
Making steps
1, first sift the flour, and set aside.
2, cut the pineapple filling into strips and small pieces, each piece about 20g.
3, take a bowl, add cream, powdered sugar, and milk powder, and mix evenly, then add eggs and flour and mix into dough.
4, divide the dough into about 20g small pieces, and press into a flat shape, then wrap with pineapple filling, wrap the dough skin with a tiger mouth, and then put it into the pineapple cake mold, press the pineapple cake dough into the mold, and then put it in a preheated to 200℃Oven, first bake for 8 minutes, then flip and bake for 4 minutes. The oven temperature setting is: upper fire 200℃, lower fire 190℃.
How to make layered pineapple cake
Material preparation
One slice of thin sponge cake, pineapple Canned 1 can, 60g of sugar,Corn flour or starch 200g, 50g of egg yolk.
Making steps
1, put half of the sponge cake into 0.3cm thickness, cut into two upper and lower layers and four sides, cut each side into 2cm intervals.
2, drain the pineapple slices and cut into pieces, use Juice machine to crush, add sugar and corn flour Mix well, cook over low heat or microwave until it becomes a filling.
3, brush egg yolk on the sides of the lower layer, and arrange the sides along the edge.
4, put half of the filling in the middle, and brush egg yolk on the edges. Cover with the upper layer and also brush with egg yolk.
5, cut out patterns along the edge with a small knife to bake. Grease the bottom of the baking pan.
6, preheat the oven to 200℃, put it in the middle of the oven, bake for about 25 minutes.
