Lamp-Wick Cake 灯芯糕
Lamp-Wick Cake is featured among the local specialties of Jiangxi.
Lamp-Wick Cake (灯芯糕) from Guixi (贵溪) takes its name from its narrow, wick-like form. China Tourism News also links the name to its oil content, which allows the cake to burn. Longxingpu (龙兴铺) is a local maker closely associated with this confection.
Rice, sugar and aromatics
A Yingtan (鹰潭) government introduction, republished by China National Radio, describes Longxingpu’s Tieguaili (铁拐李) brand as using late-season rice and white sugar. Its aromatic ingredients include cinnamon, cloves, danggui (当归), baizhi (白芷) and liquorice, among a wider mixture of botanicals.
A long sequence before slicing
China Tourism News lists washing, frying, steaming, grinding, mixing, pressing, holding at a constant temperature, pounding and cutting among the production stages. In its 2023 interview, practitioner Wang Qi (王琪) emphasised preserving the old process without omitting a step. The making technique was included in Jiangxi’s third provincial intangible-cultural-heritage list in 2010.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and fact-checked against them on 2026-09-27. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.
Image credits & notes (1)
- Deng xin gao: thin white strips of a traditional glutinous rice and sugar confection · 灯芯糕Photo: SolidBlock · CC BY-SA 4.0 · taken 2016-02-17Resized for the web; the photo itself has not been edited. Thumbnails may show a cropped view.
