Victory cake
Dingsheng cake is a famous snack in Hangzhou. Just by looking at the name, you can see that its background is extraordinary, and there are several versions of folklore about it. Regardless of its origin, it looks like the shape of an ingot, and the allegorical name "Dingsheng Cake" is still a cake that people give to each other on special occasions to indicate auspiciousness and festivity.
Dingsheng cake is mainly made of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour, the traditional one is light red, soft and glutinous, and the entrance is fragrant and slightly sweet. Nowadays, there are many patterns in production, adding ingredients such as bean paste, osmanthus, walnut kernels, etc., to make ingots, plum blossoms and peaches and other shapes, which are very good-looking. It is a pity that it takes a long time to make, there are many processes, and the selling price is not high, and it is not common on the streets of Hangzhou now. Jiang Shunfa Dingsheng Cake Shop, which is very famous on the Internet, has merged with other stores, and it looks extremely inconspicuous in the lively Hefang Street, and Boss Jiang's products are up and down; Even the well-known time-honored brand Zhiwei Guan is not satisfactory. Because of its good meaning and good appearance, it is now often included in high-end restaurants, which are willing to spend effort and produce good products, but it is a pity that it appears in expensive set meals as a traditional snack, which is difficult for the public to eat easily. However, in Wuzhen, dozens of kilometers away from Hangzhou, Dingsheng cake is more popular, there are several flavors, made into the shape of plum blossoms and ingots, small in size, common tourists hold it with paper, and eat while walking.
Due to the raw materials, the taste of Dingsheng cake is not very popular with many young people. Some shops will improve it and use mung bean flour instead of rice flour, and the finished product is completely different from the traditional taste, only the ingots of the Dingsheng cake and the words "Dingsheng cake" on the surface of the cake body are preserved, which is suitable for giving to foreign friends with its beautiful meaning.
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