Water Chestnut Cake. Water chestnut known as 马蹄 in Chinese, is a popular fruit, which has a unique sweetness and comforting crisp texture. Traditionally, housewives mainly make Chinese water chestnut cake to celebrate Chinese New Year along with other Chinese style cakes like radish cake. However the chilled version is a great dessert for summer days too.

Water Chestnut Cake is one of the popular cakes made during Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and it's also available in the Guangzhou Chinese dim sum restaurants all year round. It can be easily found from tea houses to the breakfast stalls on the street. My family loves to eat Water Chestnut Cake, so every time they go to a tea house, they will order this delicious treat! You can cook Water Chestnut Cake using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Water Chestnut Cake

It's 1 kg of water chestnut.
It's of Around two or three Rock sugar.
It's 1 Bar of sugar.
It's of Water chestnut flour.

In medium pot heat the rest of water and sugar slabs over medium heat, stirring until the sugar is completely melted. Chinese water chestnut cake (Chinese name is: 马蹄糕) is a traditional dessert snack in the area of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fuzhou and southern Fujian provinces. It is said that it originated in the Tang Dynasty and was made by steaming water chestnut powder with sugar water. Water chestnut is also known as horseshoe in Cantonese.

Water Chestnut Cake step by step

Wash peel the water chestnut.Half are pound or minced and half are cut into small cubes.Mix water chestnut with water and.mix.Make sure.no.lumps..
In a pot add around one cup of water and let the water boil and melt the sugars.When melted slowly pour the diluted flour and keep mixing.Pour also the pound water chestnut..
Continue mixing.dont let it stick on the pot.When you reach the thicknessbyou desired.Pour in the containers and add the diced chestnut as a toppings..
When.finish filling up the containers.Steam it for 20 mins.Let it cool and keep in the fridge.When you are ready ti eat.Just cut into square pan fry or steam will do..

Water chestnut cake is a well-known Cantonese dim sum dish, almost served at every yum cha restaurant in Hong Kong. When Chinese New Year comes, Hong Kong people like to make their own different kind of cakes (糕), like radish cake (aka turnip cake), taro cake, sticky rice cake to celebrate the season. Water Chestnut Cake is one of the popular cakes made during Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and it's also available in the Guangzhou Chinese dim sum restaurants all year round (too bad this delicious water chestnut cake is not available in most of our local Chinese restaurants nowadays). They are usually served either steamed or pan fried. A sweet gelatinous cake made with shredded water chestnuts and has a distinct translucent appearance.