Snack · 60 min · chinese

Wife Cake

Dinner decisions, handled: Wife Cake pairs all-purpose flour with lard for a 60-minute Chinese snack.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 2 cups All-purpose flour
• 0.5 cup Lard
• 1 cup Winter melon candy
• 0.25 cup Glutinous rice flour
• 0.5 cup Sugar
• 2 tbsp Sesame seeds
• 1 Egg
• 0.5 cup Water

Steps

1. Chop the winter melon candy fine and toss with the glutinous rice flour, sugar, and a spoonful of lard into a sweet, crumbly filling.
2. Make two doughs: a water dough (flour, water, a little lard) and an oil dough (flour and the rest of the lard). Rest both 20 minutes.
3. Wrap the oil dough in the water dough, roll out, fold in thirds, and repeat twice. This lamination builds the flaky layers.
4. Divide into 12, flatten each into a round, fill with a spoonful of filling, and seal. Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame.
5. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes until golden and puffed. Cool on a rack — the filling is molten when hot.
6. Serve warm or at room temperature. Flaky outside, sweet and chewy inside, and a name with a love story attached.

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