Chinese Palace Pastries

Chinese Palace Pastries:

1. Eight Pieces

Eight Pieces is one of the most famous Beijing-style pastries, which was created by the Imperial Household in the Ming Dynasty. Eight kinds of fillings such as hawthorn, rose, plum, sugar, bean paste, jujube paste, pepper, raisins, etc. are used, wrapped with flour containing cooking oil, and carefully baked in various patterns of molds, which is a high-quality product in Beijing-style pastries.

2. Buddha's Hand Cake

Buddha's Hand Cake is a Beijing specialty and one of the four major cakes of the Imperial Court. It is famous for its yellowish color and its shape like the fruit of Buddha's hand, with sweet and crispy skin and sweet filling. It is beautifully shaped and realistic, with a crispy and sweet taste.

3. Poria Cake

Poria Cake is a kind of nourishing traditional snacks produced in Beijing. Because the skin is as thin as paper, and the color is white, very similar to the Chinese medicine of the cloud Poria slice, so it is called "Poria cake". The outer skin is as thin as paper and white as snow, and the sandwich is made of a variety of nuts, supplemented with osmanthus, honey, sugar and pure Poria cocos powder, which is sweet and flavorful, melting in the mouth, refreshing and palatable.

4. Mung bean cake

Mung bean cake is a representative of Beijing-style pastry, it is mainly made of mung beans and glutinous rice flour, some of which will also add some date paste. Mung bean cake tastes especially sweet, for people in Beijing is the authentic palace cakes, very sweet and delicious.

5. Sugar ear

Sugar ear is a common product in Beijing snacks, also known as honey twist, because it is shaped like a human ear after molding the name. 1997 was named "Beijing Famous Snacks" and "Chinese Famous Snacks". The honey twist is brown and oily, with a moist and fluffy texture, sweet and delicious.

6. Cow tongue cake

Cow tongue cake is Beijing's old a traditional food, according to legend in the Qianlong period as a court pastry and by the public favorite, cow tongue cake outside the pastry is very crispy, inside the filling is very tasty, to come to Beijing is also to taste the authentic Beijing-style cake cow tongue cake.

7. Shakima

Shakima is a traditional Chinese specialty sweet pastry. After frying the noodles and mixing them with sugar into small pieces, sachima has the characteristics of beige color, fluffy and soft texture, sweet and savory, and rich fragrance of cinnamon and honey. Saqima originated as one of the offerings for the three mausoleums in Guanwai during the Qing Dynasty; it became popular in Beijing after the Manchus entered the country and became one of the Beijing-style seasonal pastries.

8. Jiao ring

Jiao ring is a kind of old Beijing traditional snacks, deep yellow color, shaped like a bracelet, burnt crispy, unique flavor. Jiaohuan is an ancient food. Jiao ring can be stored for ten days and a half months, the quality of unchanged, brittle as the first, crispy not skin, is a thousand years of people's favorite food.