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How to make Sun Cake

Sun Cake is Taiwanese traditional sweets - sugar syrup inside layered pastry.Whenever I go back to Taiwan, I will get a box of this thing. Although it's not as flaky as the one sold in the store, homemade sun cake is pretty tasty too.

Preparation takes a long time but it is not that difficult to make!

Step 0 - Prepare all the ingredients.

Ingredients for skin (油皮):
Mix them all lightly and rest for 15 minutes. Once done, kneel it again to make it a ball about 15g each (12). 

  • All purpose flour (filter) 190g
  • Powered sugar (filter) 20g
  • Water 85g
  • Oil (I use coconut oil) 30g
  • Unsalted butter 45g
 

 




Ingredients for inner skin (油酥):
Mix them all and make it a ball about 15g each (12).

  • Cake flour 100g
  • Unsalted butter 75g 
 


Ingredients for inner sweets (内陷):
Mix them all and refrigerate it until it becomes firm. Then, make it a ball about 15g each (12).

  • Powered sugar 80g
  • Cake flour 30g
  • Powered milk 20g
  • Salt 1/4 tsp
  • Molten sugar (or caramel or melted sugar) 30g
  • Unsalted butter 25g
  • Water 10g
 




Step 1 - Wrap the inner skin inside the skin. 
 

Step 2 - Face it down and roll into an oval. Then roll it back to be a cigar (face up). 
 

Step 3 - Roll it into an oval again and roll it back as a cigar. Then, pinch it in the middle and face down. Rest it for 10 minutes.
 

Step 4 - Roll it into a circle and wrap the inner sweets.
 

Step 5 - Use hands to make it flat (round). Make sure face it up. Rest it for 10 minutes.









Step 6 - Bake it 200 Celsius degree (390 F) for 10 minutes. Rotate the pan for 180 degree and bake it again for another 5 minutes.







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