Chinese Red Date Cake 红枣糕
This Chinese Red Date Cake is available in most dim sum restaurants in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. They usually steamed the red date cake in many layers. It has a sweet fragrance of red dates, a bouncy chewy texture and is not too sweet. This healthy tasty snack is also gluten free and is perfect to share with your friends and family to enjoy for the Chinese New Year or on any other occasions. It’s made up of simple ingredients, red dates, brown sugar, water, tapioca starch flour, glutinous rice flour and corn oil. It’s so much easier to make this in one layer and bring to steam for about 30 minutes.
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Chinese Red Date Cake
Ingredients
- 200 g red dates
- 60 g brown sugar
- 600 ml water
- 180 g tapioca starch flour
- 100 g glutinous rice flour
- 35 ml corn oil
Instructions
- Rinse red dates and cut into half, remove seeds. Then chopped red dates into smaller pieces and soak with water for 30 minutes. Place red dates into a pot together with brown sugar and add 600ml water. Bring it to a boil and simmer at low heat for 10 minutes.
- Puree red dates to fine and press through a sieve.
- Mix tapioca starch flour and glutinous rice flour together before adding into red date puree, fold well with a rubber spatula and lastly add oil, fold batter to smooth.
- Grease plate (21.5 x 18.5cm) with little more oil or line it with non stick baking paper (also need to grease oil). Pour red date paste into steaming plate and steam at high heat for about 30 minutes until set.
- Leave red date cake to cool and remove from steaming plate.
- You'll find the red date a little sticky, so it's better to oil your knife for easy cutting.
- 红枣糕 Chinese Red Date Cake
- 枣味浓郁 香甜Q弹 做法超简单 营养又价值高
- 材料：
- 200克 红枣
- 60克 红糖
- 600毫升 水
- 180克 木薯淀粉
- 100克 糯米粉
- 35毫升 玉米油
- 做法：
- 冲洗净红枣，切半去核，再切小，浸泡30分钟。然后将红枣，红糖和600毫升水放入锅中煮开，换小火焖煮十分钟。
- 将煮软的红枣和水放入打碎机打细，过筛压出水份。
- 木薯淀粉和糯米粉混匀后才倒入红枣泥中，用刮刀翻拌均衡，最后倒入玉米油再翻拌至顺滑。
- 蒸盘刷 (21.5 x 18.5cm)上多一点油或铺上油纸（也要刷油）。倒上红枣浆，放进蒸笼大火蒸30分钟至凝固。
- 红枣糕蒸熟后从蒸笼取出待凉才脱模。
- 红枣糕会有一点黏性，所以刀上须抹一层油比较好切。
Thanks for the red date cake recipe. I wonder if coat a layer of shredded coconut like nonya kuih will it match? and can resolve the stickyness
Hi Ong, Sure you can. You can also brush a layer of corn oil over the red date cake after steaming.