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Real Korean New Year Market: The lotus flower cake is so strange that it causes a fever

Due to being too familiar with white float cake and five-color drift cake, when the new variation of lotus cake appeared, it immediately caused a real fever in the Korean New Year market, and was ordered by many housewives even though a set of these cakes was relatively expensive. .

The coming days Cold Food FestivalMs. Nguyen Thi Thuan – a female lecturer who teaches 3D jelly cake making in Linh Dam area (Hoang Mai, Hanoi) is always dark eyes and nose, because she has to teach students how to make cakes from Saigon – Nam Dinh – Ha. Noi has just taken advantage of the evening to make lotus flower floating cakes to pay orders for customers to order.

Ms. Thuan said that in the past, every time during the real Korean New Year (March 3rd of the lunar calendar), she used to sell five-color floating cakes. But this year, seeing the lotus flower floating cake as eye-catching, she tried to make it to give to friends and relatives. Unexpectedly, when sharing on Facebook, her regular customers were immediately attracted and offered to place orders.

This is the reason why she launched a version of the lotus flower cake right before the actual Korean New Year so that guests can make offerings to their ancestors and worship the Buddha. Accordingly, the set of lotus cakes includes: lotus flowers, lotus petals, lotus leaves and beautiful little floating cakes.

Real Korean New Year Market: The lotus flower cake is so strange that it causes a fever
The lotus flower cake caused a real fever in the Korean New Year market this year

Talking about the process of making lotus cake sets, Ms. Thuan made no secret: “First, buy the best glutinous rice flour, mix water to make the dough soft and then wrap it in a plastic bag and incubate for 4-5 hours. Next, divide the dough and put the color of the juices into the dough again, get more dry flour to cover the cake.”

“Particularly for the filling, steamed green beans, then stir-fried with sugar with grated coconut and sesame. Then roll the ball like a small guava, take a thin flat dough for the filling in the middle and press it into a lotus-shaped silicone mold, helping to save the lotus flower clearly. sharp,” she said.

Because it is made sophisticatedly, the ingredients of lotus cake are added with green beans fried with grated coconut, which is not boring and soft, so gourmets prefer it to traditional floating cakes.

The color of Ms. Thuan’s lotus cake is made from natural colors. Like the pink color of the lotus flower made from dragon fruit juice, the green color of the leaves is made from sticky leaf juice, the yellow color of the lotus flower is made from gardenia seed juice, and the blue color of some floating cakes is made. from butterfly pea flowers.

Real Korean New Year market: Lotus cake, strange goods with hot sauce
Lotus cake is made quite sophisticated.
Real Korean New Year market: Lotus cake, strange goods with hot sauce
Colors to create lotus flowers, leaves… are all natural colors made from flowers and fruits

To make lotus cake, Ms. Thuan must pay attention to carefully measure the ingredients before stuffing them into a pre-shaped mold for the cake. Thus, the cake sets are very beautiful, the flowers are even.

A set of lotus flower cakes including 3 lotus flowers, 2 lotus buds, 2 lotus petals, 1 lotus leaf and 15 colorful floating cakes is being sold for 120,000 VND.

“I see many bakeries in the market selling smaller sets of lotus cakes for 60,000-70,000 VND. Therefore, I make double or triple the number of cakes so that the whole family can eat one set for 120,000 VND,” she said.

According to this woman, on peak days, she sells about 200-300 sets of cakes. Buying lotus cake is mainly because patrons want to have a beautiful and strange plate of floating cake to offer on a real Korean New Year’s tray.

When buying, customers should boil for about 15 minutes, then reduce the heat for 5-7 minutes. When the cake is cooked, it will not break or lose its shape.

“You have to boil water to release the cake. Cook the cake for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat, until the cake is floating, turn the heat to high, then take it out and drop it in a bowl of cold water for the cake to shape, then put it in a big bowl, “said Thuan. Lotus cake can be stored in the refrigerator for 3 days and in the freezer for 2 months.

Real Korean New Year market: Lotus cake, strange goods with hot sauce
The price of each set of floating cakes is quite high compared to traditional floating cakes or five-color cakes, but still attracts housewives to order.

As a housewife who loves beauty and likes new shapes, seeing before the real Korean New Year, seeing many small merchants selling eye-catching lotus flower cakes on the online market, Ms. Tran Thu Huong in Le Hong Phong (Ha Dong, Ha Ha, Ha Noi, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha Noi, Ha Dong, Ha Noi, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha Dong, Ha, Ha, Ha, and Ha,iv, to Tran Thu Huong, Ms. Tran Thu Huong lives in Le Hong Phong (Ha Dong, Ha Noi). Noi) ordered a set to burn incense on the full moon of February and then try it.

“When I eat, I find the cake very fragrant. Because lotus flowers, lotus petals, and lotus leaves are made of glutinous rice flour outside, and green beans inside. The small floating cakes still have the familiar sugar filling. In addition, there are also grated coconut, roasted sesame and cool ginger sugar water,” Huong said.

This housewife said, a set of floating lotus flowers she bought for 70,000 VND includes 1 blooming lotus, 1 lotus bud, 1 leaf, and 1 radio. This set is included with sugar water, when the cake is finished boiling, then pour it in.

Most of the lotus flower cake sets sold on the market are raw cakes. When cooking, just defrost naturally, then boil until the cake is cooked, then take it out and drop it into a bowl of filtered water just like making traditional vegetarian pancakes.

Because she tried the lotus flower cake, this Korean New Year, she planned to order 3 sets to burn incense.

These days, on the market, small online market traders also continuously sell white cakes, five-color cakes, lotus cakes and even cake flour at different prices to help many housewives conveniently. Place an order for the actual Korean New Year offerings.

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