Quang Ninh multi-layered cake

Fortune cake also has many different names, many people call it fortune cake, it is such a play on words that the cake is used to burn incense at the beginning of the new year with the wish of fortune to fill the house at the beginning of the year. In some other places, it is called passionate or passionate Tai cake, tote cake, banh cuo, Xo cage. Banh Tai is very simple to make but is loved by many people because of its delicious and flexible taste. This cake is sold a lot in the area of Cua Ong temple or on the occasion of the full moon, Tet holiday, the type of cake is sold in some markets where people buy incense to burn incense.

Tai epep cake is processed quite simply. The main ingredients of the cake are glutinous rice flour, sesame, ginger, and peanuts. To make this cake, people have to soak glutinous rice, then grind and filter the flour. Part of the powder mixed with yellow sugar or rock sugar. Ginger is shaved, pounded to get the juice, mixed with flour and sugar until the dough is sticky. Then people will line the banana leaf under the mold, pour the dough into the mold and sprinkle more sesame seeds on the surface. Put into steaming water for 6-8 hours depending on the size of the cake poured into thick or thin molds. After the cake is cooked, let it cool for a while before enjoying. When eating thin slices, visitors will feel the very aromatic taste of ginger, the plasticity of glutinous flour, the fleshy taste of peanuts. If visitors come to Cua Ong temple area, they will see roadside stalls selling giant cakes, cut into slices for frying, the price of each piece of cake fluctuates around 10,000 VND a piece. After frying the cake, it will have a very delicious crispy outer shell, sipping a piece of cake with a cup of hot tea in the early spring atmosphere is an interesting feeling when coming to Cua Ong temple.