Korean court cake
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Course | Dessert |
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Place of origin | Korea |
Main ingredients | Honey |
Similar dishes | Dragon's beard candy |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 꿀타래 |
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Hanja | n/a |
Revised Romanization | kkul-tarae |
McCune–Reischauer | kkul-t'arae |
IPA | [k͈ul.tʰa.ɾɛ] |
Kkul-tarae (꿀타래; lit. "honey skein"), also known as Korean court cake, is a Korean dessert. A hard dough of honey-maltose mixture is kneaded, twisted, and stretched (pulled) into 16,384 skeins of silky threads, in which assorted candied nuts, chocolate, or other fillings are wrapped. The mildly sweet, bite-sized treats were eaten in the royal court in the past. Nowadays, it has been marketed to symbolize wishes of health, longevity, and fortune to the consumer or recipient.