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White sugar sponge cake (also called white sugar cake and white sugar pastry) is a type of Chinese pastry. It is made from rice flour, white sugar, water, and a leavening agent. [1] [2] While it is called a "cake", it is not served as a circular round cake. It is usually purchased as an individual square piece or a mini triangle.
Chinese bakery products (Chinese: 中式糕點; pinyin: Zhōngshì gāodiǎn; lit. 'Chinese style cakes and snacks' or Chinese : 唐餅 ; pinyin : Táng bǐng ; lit. 'Tang-style baked goods') consist of pastries , cakes , snacks , and desserts of largely Chinese origin, though some are derived from Western baked goods.
Malay sponge cake [a] is a popular dessert cake in Guangdong and in Hong Kong. It usually can be seen at a traditional teahouse in Guangdong and Hong Kong. The cake is made of lard or butter, flour, and eggs, using a bamboo steamer to develop puffiness. An entire Malay sponge cake is a huge yellow round cake, but is generally sold as slices in ...
Luffa acutangula is a cucurbitaceous vine that is commercially grown for its unripe fruits as a vegetable. Mature fruits are used as natural cleaning sponges. Its fruit slightly resembles a cucumber or zucchini with ridges.
Fa gao (traditional Chinese: 發糕; simplified Chinese: 发糕; pinyin: fāgāo; Cantonese Yale: faatgōu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-koé), also called fat pan (發粄) by the Hakka, [1] prosperity cake, [2] [3] fortune cake, [4] Cantonese sponge cake, [5] is a Chinese steamed, cupcake-like pastry. [6]
Luffa is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the pumpkin, squash and gourd family (Cucurbitaceae).. In everyday non-technical usage, the luffa, also spelled loofah [3] or less frequently loofa, [4] usually refers to the fruits of the species Luffa aegyptiaca and Luffa acutangula.
Pandan cake is a light, fluffy, green-coloured sponge cake [5] flavoured with the juices of Pandanus amaryllifolius leaves. [6] [7] It is also known as pandan chiffon.[1] [2] The cake is popular in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, China, and also the Netherlands.
The sponge soaks up flavours from fresh fruits, fillings and custard sauces. [7] Sponge cake covered in boiled icing was very popular in American cuisine during the 1920s and 1930s. The delicate texture of sponge and angel food cakes, and the difficulty of their preparation, made them more expensive than daily staple pies.