A good-looking, delicious and fun straw hat cake, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, rich in layers, spicy and salty

Today I would like to share with you the practice of a straw hat cake, which is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, rich in layers, spicy and salty, and worthy of its name, it is really good-looking, delicious and fun.

Straw hat cake

Dough: 300 grams of plain flour, 3 grams of salt, 100 grams of boiling water, 100 grams of warm water, 15 grams of cooking oil.

Puff pastry: 30 grams of fine corn flour or plain flour, 3 grams of salt, appropriate amount of cumin powder, appropriate amount of chili powder. 40 grams of cooking oil, Sichuan pepper, appropriate amount of bay leaves.

Here's how:

Step 1: Put 300 grams of ordinary flour in the basin, add 3 grams of salt, increase the gluten of the dough, separate from the middle, half of the noodles with 100 grams of warm water, stir while pouring to make the noodles evenly heated, and the other half with warm water and noodles, all stir until there is no dry flour, pour in 15 grams of cooking oil, knead into a slightly soft and smooth dough, be sure to knead it for a while, then cover with plastic wrap or take the wet noodles with wrung out water, and then cover the pot lid and seal the noodles for about 1 hour.

Take advantage of the time to make a puff pastry. Put 30 grams of fine corn flour in a bowl, replace it with ordinary flour, 3 grams of salt, cumin powder and chili powder, and you can also make it into other favorite seasonings. The appropriate amount is not quantitative, according to the taste of yourself and your family, increase or decrease as appropriate, like more, if you don't like to put less or not put, flexible mastery, suitable for yourself is the best. The shortbread made with fine corn flour will have more distinct layers.

Add 40 grams of cooking oil to the wok, put the peppercorns and bay leaves over low heat and heat, slowly fry the fragrance, fry until the fragrance and peppercorns turn brown, pour the hot oil on the seasoning in the bowl, stimulate the fragrance, stir evenly and set aside.

The extensibility of the dough is very good, wipe a little oil on the board to prevent sticking, take it out directly and knead it into long strips, divide it into three equal parts, be sure not to knead the dough, knead the dough gluten will affect the ductility and it will take a while to proceed to the next step. Roll the dough into a rectangle by hand.

Smear the puff pastry, be sure to spread evenly, and the baked cake can be clearly layered.

I folded the dough sheet from the bottom up, and I folded it four times in total.

Tidy up the edges to make them more regular.

Cut from the middle.

The incisions are stacked together, and the length of the straw hat is stretched and rolled up from one end, which can increase the layering of the straw hat cake, and the tail is pressed flat on the cake blank

Cover the finished cake with plastic wrap and let it loose for about 10 minutes, so that it is easier to roll out and the baked cake is softer.

Press the awakened cake blank by hand, keep the texture unchanged, roll it out from the middle to the sides, and roll out the front and back, so that the level of the cake is basically the same. Don't be too thin, about 3-4 mm thick is sufficient.

The electric baking pan is preheated over medium heat, and the cake blank is put into the pan because the dough is relatively soft, and the cake blank will be deformed in the pot, so tidy it up a little to make it more rounded. Cover and sear for about 1 minute, wait for the bottom to set, and turn over the surface slightly.

Roast until the bottom is golden brown and turn over again, the aroma of the cake comes to your nose, close the lid and continue to bake.

Turn it over repeatedly until golden brown and crispy on both sides.

The layers of the cake are very rich, each layer is very thin, the skin is crispy, and the inside is soft.

One hand pushes up from the bottom center of the cake, and the other hand gently presses the edge, and the shape of the straw hat comes out, really like the straw hat worn when I was a child to shade the sun and rain.