Pine Flower Cake is one of the famous characteristic snacks in Tengchong. In many places, the art of making Pine Flower Cake has been lost, but Tengchong has carried it forward. Its main ingredients are pine pollen and some red beans. It is clear in color, oily, non-sticky teeth, with a sense of melting in the mouth of the cloud cake, a kernel flavor, sweet. The cake is divided into two layers. The first layer is golden yellow and the second is purple. The collocation of its color constitutes a very beautiful picture, which makes people reluctant to eat. Finally, put the Pine Flower Cake on a green lotus leaf, light aroma, is a very leisurely feeling. Tengchong pine mainly "Yunnan pine", belonging to the pinaceae, also known as green pine, long hair pine. Tengchong's volcanoes have provided fertile soil for the growth of pine trees. There is no heavy industry here, no pollution and green ecology. Pine pollen picked from pine flowers is dried in the spring every year to make a traditional food songhua cake. Pine pollen, also known as pine flower, pine yellow, generally refers to the dry pollen produced by the stamens of pinus masson, Tabulaeformis and other pine plants. For bright yellow or light yellow fine powder, sweet and non-toxic. The ancients said: "the gas of pine and cypress can make people longevity!" So pine pollen is the king of pollen.