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Chinese Fa Gao (fāgāo - 发糕), also known as prosperity cake or fortune cake, is a common sight around Chinese New Year. It’s also served at other holidays, ceremonial events, and weddings. This fa gao recipe will walk you through how to make it.

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Fa Gao, also known as Prosperity Cake, Lucky Cake or Fortune Cake, is made and eaten during Chinese New Year to bring prosperity in the new year. Traditional Prosperity Cakes call for yeast and a lot of prep work, but this version uses baking powder as a leavening agent and are easier to prep.

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Chinese Fa Gao known as fortune cake usually for Chinese New Year or ancestor worship. Ever since my interest about Guangdong cuisine grows, I like to visit my friend who is a native Cantonese woman.

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Kristina Cho, recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and cookbook author, shares her step-by-step recipe for prosperity cakes, the auspicious festive confection for Chinese New Year.

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Chinese New Year is probably the most colorful and important of all the traditional Chinese celebration. This is the time for us to congratulate ourselves and each other on making through the year. It is the time to leave the old year behind and welcome in the new year. For three years straight, Chinese New Year Eve is the day that I hang out with my friends and some fellow food bloggers for the giant Chinese New Year feast at Beijing restaurant in Montreal (by the way, this is not part of…

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