Beijing Fuling Cake, also known as Fuling Sandwich Cake, is a traditional nourishing food in Beijing, which can best promote Daoxiangchun. The crust baked with high-grade starch is as thin as paper and as white as snow. The sandwich is made of various nuts, supplemented by osmanthus fragrans, honey, white sugar and pure Yunnan-Guizhou Poria powder. It is sweet and delicious, instant in the mouth, refreshing and delicious. And is low in price, and can be used as a health food which is often eaten. Fuling cakes have been produced in many places in Beijing. Fuling cake is called Fuling cake because its crust is very similar to Yunfu tablets in traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is called "Fuling cake".
It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi can live to 74 years old, which is directly related to her long-term consumption of medicinal diet. Among the published 13 prescriptions for tonifying Cixi, Fuling cake is used most frequently. In order to preserve health and prolong life, Empress Dowager Cixi excessively adopted the doctor's advice and ordered the royal chef to make "Fuling cake" with refined white flour and poria powder, which was often given to ministers. Because Fuling cake is not only rich in fragrance, but also has the effect of eliminating diseases and prolonging life, it has become a famous point in the court of Qing Dynasty.