Wu Hill Crisp Cake

Wu Hill Crisp Cake’s main ingredients are flour and white sugar. It is fried in peanut oil until golden brown. It resembles a golden hill capped with snow and tastes crispy and sweet, but not greasy. It has a history of over seven hundred years and is renowned as the "Top Cake in Wu Hill".

As the legend goes, during the last years of the Five Dynasties, General Zhao Kuangyin was besieged by his enemy General Liu Renshan of the Southern Tang Kingdom. Running out of food, General Zhao’s soldiers suffered from hunger. General Zhao was about to lose the battle when local people prepared a lot of crisp cakes made of chestnut powder to support his army. With the help of local people, General Zhao won the battle.

Later, Zhao Kuangyin became the founder of the Song Dynasty. To mark the event, he asked his chefs to make the crisp cakes for him and his ministers. Gradually, the crisp cake was introduced into Wu Hill where people used flavor instead of chestnut powder. That's how Wu Hill Crisp Cakes came into being.