Taiwanese Sun Cake

Name: Taiwanese Sun Cake
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Taiwanese
Ingredients: 2 cups flour, for outer dough; 1/2 cup lard or butter; 1 cup maltose syrup; 1 cup flour, for filling paste

太陽餅/tai yang bing/

Also known as: Taiyang Bing

About this dish

A flaky pastry with a thin, crisp shell filled with sweet maltose caramel, a Taichung specialty.

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Ingredients

🌾2 cups flour, for outer dough

🧈1/2 cup lard or butter

🍯1 cup maltose syrup

🌾1 cup flour, for filling paste

Method

Serves 4

Make an outer dough and a fat dough, folding them together to create flaky layers.

Cook flour with maltose syrup into a thick, sticky filling paste.

Wrap the layered dough around a portion of filling.

Flatten into a round disc.

Bake at 180°C (350°F) until lightly golden and flaky.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Sun cake is a specialty of Taichung, a beloved Taiwanese pastry with layers of flaky dough around a sweet maltose filling.

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