Golden cake
Golden cake began in the Qing Dynasty, originally called hawthorn cake, is a flavorful dish in the Manchu han feast. The main ingredient is hawthorn, which is refined with white sugar and osmanthus flowers.
Osmanthus cake
It has a history of more than 400 years. It is also the most common and commonly eaten pastry in the court, and now because the history is too long, the osmanthus cake in various regions is not the same. The famous ones are Xianning Osmanthus Cake, Nanjing Osmanthus Cake and Xiayang Crystal Osmanthus Cake.
Egg yolk mille-feuille cake
Originating in the south, somewhat similar to Western cakes, compared with Western cakes, Chinese mille-feuille cakes do not add chemical ingredients such as cream, baking powder, adhesives, etc., and are basically made using traditional craftsmanship. The taste is soft and refreshing, sweet but not greasy, the important thing is low energy, low sugar, healthy and not easy to gain weight. This is also one of the favorite delicacies of the Concubines of the Qing Palace.
Eight precious cakes
Made from 8 precious ingredients, the Eight Treasure Cakes are one of the Qianlong Emperor's favorite pastries. Eight treasure cakes were later divided into "male eight treasures" and "female eight treasures", and the ingredients were slightly adjusted according to the difference between men and women. The Eight Treasures Cake that Cixi ate that year was the Female Eight Treasures, which was adjusted according to the Male Eight Treasures of the Qianlong Emperor.
Donkey rolling
This is a kind of pastry in the north, and it is generally not eaten in the south. Its main ingredients are soybean noodles, auxiliary ingredients soybean flour, bean paste filling or brown sugar, etc., the simplest way is to use soybean bread to live bean paste or brown sugar, and then stick soybean flour. Donkey rolling, like many pastries, also entered the eyes of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, and ordinary people generally could not eat it.
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