Honey and Cheese Sun Cakes

This post features the last two in a series of four innovative sun cake flavours. The first two were tie guan yin sun cake and rose sun cake, and these two are honey and cheese. They're all by Ru Yi Tang (如邑堂), in case you want to try them too.

I thought both were quite interesting - the honey sun cake (below) was, as expected, quite sweet, but the honey didn't taste like the usual manuka honey or off-the-shelf honey. It had some rather flowery, lily-like fragrance, so perhaps they used the honey from another flower or something. Once again, it's quite hard to see the filling without zooming in, but if you click the pictures, you should be able to see that it's a mostly-clear yellowish liquid, which is different from the usual sun cake filling - those tend to be a bit more powdery and opaque, like buttered milk powder.

For the cheese sun cake, the filling looked and tasted like nacho cheese, just with a slight tinge of butter. The savoury aspect of the cheese filling went very well with the extremely fluffy and flaky pastry, and I think that's a combination that bakeries should experiment more with, since most of the time sun cakes are sweet, and the other savoury pastries tend not to have such a fluffy and smooth texture. 

Overall, the gastronomic concept for this range of flavoured sun cakes was awesome! They just need to avoid the use of shortening or margarine, and I would recommend them without hesitation.

Found this pastry interesting? Check out other unusual pastries here!