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🌰 Cheonan walnut cakes

parkyang1021 · CC BY 2.0 kr

Small walnut-shaped cakes filled with red bean and a piece of walnut — the classic travel snack.

Created in Cheonan in 1934, hodu-gwaja is baked in walnut-shaped moulds, the smooth red bean paste wrapping a nub of walnut. Because Cheonan is a major road junction, the cakes became the snack people buy on the way through, sold at every motorway service area in the country.

Flavour: Mildly sweet and nutty

Ingredients

• Wheat flour
• Red bean paste
• Walnut
• Milk
• Honey