Tuo Lu Cake

Tuo Lu Cake

　　Tuo Lu Cake is a famous traditional snack from Yangshe and Tangqiao in Zhangjiagang City. This cake has a long history, dating back over 150 years. Its production process is unique—during baking, two ovens are used: a bottom oven (flat-bottomed) and a top oven (pointed, cone-shaped). Both ovens heat simultaneously in alignment, and the top oven’s heat cooks the cake by suspension, creating the impression that the top oven drags the bottom one—hence the name Tuo Lu (Dragging Oven) Cake.

Tuo Lu Cake is made with premium white flour, white sugar, refined leaf lard (processed pork fat), shepherd’s purse, sesame, and osmanthus as key ingredients. It has a flavor that is rich but not greasy, sweet but not sticky, and fragrantly delicious. Combining crispness, sweetness, fluffiness, crunchiness, and aroma, it has a plump shape, golden color, and clearly defined crispy layers.