Chinese desserts are nothing but sweet foods ate along with tea or with meals, also they are made use at the meal end like any other desert is served. Delicious to any tongue, Chinese desserts brings in a wide variety of sweets and dishes and it is the long history and the numerous Chinese cultures brought in a wide array of desserts. Now, if one overlooks the variety of desserts served in China, they are so numerous to get counted. Stacked by the types Bing, Candies, Gao, Ices, Jellies and Soups. That would make a bit easy to understand the varieties of desserts one can find in China.The desserts falling by the Bing category are mainly wheat flour based confections, showing much traits of western cuisine short-pastry crust or flaky like puff pastry. Lard, derived from pig is the most common used fat in Bing. Wife cake, marry girl cake, moon cake, sun cake are few among the most common Bings.
Tang is one other name they call for candies and sweets in China. Formed out of honey and sugars of malt and cane. Candies also brings in nuts by them, you can find nuts getting dressed up in sugar and also in some candies nuts are used to give it some texture. Tanghulu, dragon’s beard candy, and White Rabbit Creamy Candy are few among the most used desserts in Candy category. Gao desserts are rice based, consists of a variety of snacks made out of glutinous or the ordinary rice, yeah they are steamed as well. Gao desserts come by a variety of designs, they can be made to look jelly, can be chewy, fluffy or firm looking. Bai Tang Gao, Nian gao and Tangyuan are a few among the most common Gaos.Ices are one other variety of Chinese dessert, Baobing coming with sweet condiments with syrup, really very economical, the best thing to enjoy any hot summer. Jellies are tagged as ices, they come with a agar and are flavored with fruits. Its also common for one to spot Jellies made out of gelatin, and served vast. Soup are yet another dessert type served in China, soups that are hot and sweet. A few soups are made in compliance to the great, traditional Chinese medicine and they got restorative properties in mind. Douhua is a common used soup at the time of breakfast.
My husband just love to have Chinese desserts after dinner, so each day I will try out to make something different. I used to visit many sites in the Internet for getting new Chinese recipes, my husband really appreciates my effort. One day, for my son’s birthday party I made White Rabbit Creamy Candy, after tasting this one of my friend gave me bulk orders for making this for her daughter’s wedding.
Chinese desserts are something very special for my son. So his last birthday I made a sweet dessert with strawberries mixed with honey and sugar and it was the Chinese recipe. Everyone liked the flavor of the delicious dessert and some of them asked for the secret of the recipe.
It’s so easy to make moon cake and I always make it when my kid comes tired after school. He just love it and it’s no nutritious too. For fillings, I always use fruits like pineapple, lychee and melons.
Whenever I keep some party at my home, I just love to make some Chinese Desserts. I usually make desserts like Tanghulu, marry girl cake and Nian gao. These desserts doesn’t make much time for preparation, but at the same time are very delicious that’s why I try making it always. Everyone attending the party gives me compliments mainly for the desserts that I make so I always try out something unique.