Type | pastry |
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Place of origin | Taiwan |
Region or state | Taichung |
Main ingredients | flour, butter, sugar, taro filling |
Taro pastry ( Chinese: 芋頭酥; pinyin: Yùtóusū) is a Taiwanese shortbread snack with a spherical shape and made with taro as sweet filling. [1] It first appeared in Taichung City, Taiwan in the late 1980s. At that time, it was made from surplus taro, but it later became a local snack. [2]
The main method of making taro pastry is to wrap the pastry made with flour and butter with the filling made of taro puree and place it in the oven. [3]