Chicken cake, elegantly called "little phoenix cake"

Chicken cake, formerly known as "little phoenix cake", originated from Guangzhou, well-known at home and abroad, and is very popular.

It was created entirely by accident. It is said that during the Qing Xianfeng period, there was a rich family surnamed Wu in Xiguan, Guangzhou, there was a female worker named "Xiaofeng" in the family, Xiaofeng was a Shunde person, good at cooking, "Xiaofeng Cake" was created by Xiaofeng, Wu fu people loved to eat, and often used Xiaofeng cake as a souvenir to give to relatives and friends, the circle of friends knows, everyone loves to eat. But it became a famous cake, but it was half a century later, at that time, Guangzhou Henan Chengzhu Tea House because of the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake slow sales, the cake maker is anxious to be wise, with the raw materials of the mooncake according to the production method of the small phoenix cake, kneading the mooncake, mixed with pork, curd milk, maltose and other materials into the filling, flour foreskin, baking, to achieve a sweet, crisp, loose effect, salty with sweet, fat but not greasy, and named "Chengzhu Xiaofeng Cake", this cake

Once launched, it was very popular. Since then, the small phoenix cake has flourished.

Because the small phoenix cake resembles a chick, Guangzhou people are accustomed to calling "chicken" with "phoenix", and chicks are called "chicken boy" in Guangzhou dialect, so the small phoenix cake is also called chicken cake.