Begonia cake is a traditional local delicacy in Shanghai, made by special mold grouting and baking. The main ingredients are flour, old yeast, bean paste, and net pork board oil.
It is made by special mold grouting and baking. The cake is shaped like a begonia flower, the color is purple sauce red, sweet and fluffy, can be described as color, aroma, taste, shape is good, the same as Suzhou "plum blossom cake", the same as a prop long history of the flower color snack, deeply welcomed by the public.
In Shanghai, you may only be able to eat authentic begonia cake in Shippo, but in other parts of Jiangnan, you can taste another flavor of begonia cake: the begonia cake of Nanjing Confucius Temple Lianhu Cake Dumpling Shop is rich in ingredients such as Jiu Gem, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and so on.
Begonia cake production must have a mold, the mold of the cake is also more special, is a small disc cast in iron, there are seven holes in the small shallow pot, shaped like begonia flowers, the production of the first use of a small spoon to put the pre-fermented flour into the small shallow pot, and then put in the filling, accessories, such as bean paste, red and green melon shreds and oil sugar, etc., baked back and forth with fire, after two or three minutes, it is reddish brown, baking when the aroma is fragrant, once baked, the color and fragrance of the cake is displayed in front of people's eyes.