The common toad spitting honey in Beijing snacks is named because of what stuffing is in it.

Toad spitting honey, a common snack in Beijing, is named after it contains bean paste stuffing.

Toad spits honey, also known as bean-stuffed sesame cake, is a common variety of traditional cakes of Han nationality in Beijing, named after the bean paste in the stuffing. In the baking process, because there is a natural opening at the edge of the sesame seed cake, the bean stuffing is spit out and hung on the edge of the sesame seed cake, so people call this sesame seed cake toad spitting honey.

Difficulties in production

The most difficult step for toads to spit honey is to let them spit honey, because authentic toads spit honey not with a knife, nor with their hands, nor crushed by the bean stuffing inside, but the dough naturally cracks to a certain extent. Toad spits honey, and there are only 26 kinds of traditional techniques of kneading dough.