The secret of making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes shaped like animals, cute flowers and leaves

Coming to the real Korean New Year on the 3rd of lunar March, if you are too familiar with the traditional white and round vegetarian cake, you can try a little novelty with the carp shape, flower shape or cute animals Please!
Vegetarian cakes are a familiar dish of Vietnamese people every real Korean New Year. However, you will probably be surprised when this traditional cake can be beautifully shaped, unique and much more vivid under the skillful hands of brave mothers.

Create a floating cake shape into your funny animals Huyen Thu. Turn the cake float into a flock of colorful carp of Minh Anh friend. How to make a carp vegetarian cake floating in the shape of a carp, shaping the cute animals and flowers Resources – 100g glutinous rice flour (usually choose packages of glutinous rice flour sold in Thailand) – 20g of non-glutinous rice flour – 70g young tofu (making the cake soft and smooth, easy to shape, when boiled, it will not lose the shape of the cake, if there is no problem) – 10g of diameter – Water mixed with cake flour if there is no young tofu, it must be boiling water, not using cold water will melt the dough. If young tofu is available, use water at room temperature. – Food colors: gardenia powder (yellow), pea flower (purple), fresh gac (orange red), coffee, cocoa (brown, black), green tea powder (green), Beetroot juice or red dragon fruit (pink), carrot juice (orange), or using color from commercially available syrup … Part battering and coloring Mix well the mixture of glutinous rice flour, non-glutinous rice, and other ingredients. Gradually add boiling water to stuffing until dough is sticky. Depending on the new powder or the old powder, there will be different moisture absorption, so if after mixing it is too wet, you can add the powder, but if it’s too dry, you can add water. Kneading it until the dough doesn’t stick to your hands is fine. Divide the dough into small blocks to mix colors depending on the purpose of use. If using watercolors from food coloring, be careful when stuffing with boiling water, let the dough dry a little more then when adding food coloring to the dough will not be dough. Cover the dough to rest while preparing the cake. Cake filling You can make bread without filling or use sugar, green beans, red beans … depending on your preference. If using green beans, soak the beans overnight to bloom, boil them and put them in a blender to puree. Add a little sugar and stir on a non-stick pan and slug until the kernel is dry, then cook it down. Divide the kernel into small cubes in accordance with the cake-forming idea. Shaping Create a simple floating cake shape, do not take time to incubate the dough. Beautiful or ugly depends on the ingenuity and creativity of each person. How to shape from the main to sub-details respectively, to attach the details, you can use a toothpick to gently press the powder to shape and increase the cohesion. Note: wrap the dough with food wrap to prevent the dough from drying out, difficult to shape, and the dough surface is not smooth. If the powder is too dry, it will make it difficult for the details to be formed together. You can spray a thin layer of water on the surface of the cake if it dries out. How to boil cake Bring the water to a boil, lower the heat to a moderate level, then add the cake to the boil. When the cake is floating for 1-3 minutes (depending on the cake to be small), take out the cake and soak it in cool water. The broth uses Korean black sugar to create a beautiful color, use 2 tablespoons of black sugar pho for 500ml of water, add white sugar until it fits, add ginger as you like. Or you can use brown sugar, palm sugar … all right. The cake after boiling, you are filled with sugar water, sprinkled with a little coconut fiber or coconut milk (depending on the type of cake) to enjoy. Invite you to refer to the beautiful vegetarian cake drifting designs of mothers to share on social networks. With the carp shaped cake, you should steam in the steamer, not like a traditional cake to keep the shape of the fish. Photo: Thu Phuong The carp float lively. Photo: Oanh Tran Vegetarian cake filled with green beans and coconut milk added green bean juice, lotus seeds … Photo: Minh Anh Your child will surely enjoy the crabs, bears, teddy rabbits, chicks … from the mother’s cake. Photo: Le Nu Xuan Thoi Can you believe these are vegetarian pancakes? Photo: Suri’s mother The hands deftly shaped the animals so sharply. Photo: Nguyen Ngoc An An The Mickey Mouse, Tiger, Chicken … are so funny and lovely. Photo: Huyen Thu The colorful cakes shared by mother Nguyen Thanh Mong. Not only the animal shape, the floating cake can also create a lotus shape. Photo: Minh Anh You can also get the first peach float cake, the fairy float cake like Yen Nhi’s mother did. This is exactly the vegetarian floating cake made from Gac flour, not the tangerines. Photo: Men The shape of the petals is very simple. If you don’t have a dough cutter, you can circle the petals and press them flat down, cutting the area with a dough knife. Or use a toothpick to press down to create a groove to increase the softness of the petals. Photo: Duyen Charmy Wish you have the “works” of floating cakes, beautiful vegetarian cakes on the upcoming Korean New Year!