Osmanthus aka 'Gui Hua' are tiny golden yellow flowers that impart a pleasant and sweet smelling fragrance which can be detected from afar. My first encounter with this flower was during my trip to Hangzhou, China. Our tour group was taken to some historical museum and I was standing under a tree full of beautiful golden little flowers which were very fragrant. Out of curiosity, I enquired our tour guide and was told that, that was a "Gui-Hua' tree which also brought to my mind the popular 'Gui Hua Gao' that was often mentioned as one of the sweet delicacies that only the ancient Chinese emperors and their royalties could enjoy.
Other than tossing some dried Osmanthus into my Pu-Er tea I was looking for some other ways to make use of these tiny weeny flowers. What next, but to surf the net to find out. I was glad that I stumbled upon Vivian Pang's post on Brown sugar 'Gui Hua' chiffon cake. I didn't bake a whole cake but instead made them in cupcake liners. Tweaked the recipe a bit as I didn't strain out the Osmanthus, just use up the Osmanthus as well as the brew to see how the cakes will turn out. These cakes were very aromatic, fluffy, soft and the sweet smelling fragrance lingered in my kitchen even till the next day.
Read on for the Recipe
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