◆ Ingredients: bean paste, eggs, flour, bee syrup, alkaline water, crude oil (preferably olive oil or tea seed oil)

◆ Production process: firstly, mix the flour into dough, and add bee syrup, alkaline water and crude oil to the flour in this process. How much to add, you can add kneading according to the ratio of 5:4:1.4:1, and knead repeatedly until the noodles are dough. Next, the mixed dough is pulled into small dough of the same size and rolled into cakes for use. Cook the eggs in a pot, remove the shell and albumen, and peel off the yolk for later use.

knead the bought bean paste into a small round cake, wrap it in egg yolk, and wrap it tightly into a stuffing ball. After the stuffing ball is made, it is necessary to make cake balls. Wrap the stuffing ball into the rolled bread and knead it into cake balls. The next step is to make the cake ball look like a moon cake, which depends on your personal preference. Although the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival is round, the moon cake doesn't have to be round. For convenience, it can also be made into an incomplete regular square. Pat the cake ball gently to make it even in thickness, remove the superfluous edges and simply decorate it. The first model of the moon cake was made successfully, and the most complicated part of the whole process was completed.

The next step is to bake it in the microwave oven. Before putting it in the baking tray, you should brush a layer of egg juice and mix it with three yolks and one whole egg. Turn the microwave oven to barbecue mode, and bake for about 2 minutes on medium-high heat, taking it out once in the middle and brushing the egg juice again. In this way, homemade moon cakes will be completed. Don't you want to know what it's like to taste your own baked moon cakes while enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival? Then do it yourself, and the fun is naturally in it.

Although the shape and taste of homemade moon cakes are not as good as those bought, they will definitely make you unforgettable and memorable after eating.

Precautions for homemade moon cakes

◎ The proportion of dough should be flexibly grasped according to the raw materials used by the family.

◎ It is best to use raw yolk for eggs in the stuffing, so that when baking moon cakes, the oil from the yolk will melt into the crust of moon cakes. But if you do it for the first time, it's better to use it cooked.

◎ The time to bake in the microwave oven should be based on the size of the moon cake, or you can open the oven to have a look during baking to avoid scorching.

◎ In order to make the baked moon cakes more fragrant, you can add a little less butter when mixing the dough, but remember not to add more butter to avoid crispness.

Making Cantonese-style moon cakes

1. Peel

Divide the crust of each moon cake according to the weight.

2. Divide the fillings of the moon cakes according to the quantity. Double yellow or triple yellow or lotus seed paste, the lotus seed paste should be divided into two or three portions, and each portion of lotus seed paste should be wrapped with an egg yolk, and wrapped into a cake blank by a two-in-one or three-in-one method. The five-kernel stuffing should be firm and smooth, but the stuffing should not be pinched for too long, otherwise it will leak oil and peel off the shell. The variety of each filling should be marked during the conversion process. Because of the cake blank wrapped with the cake skin, It is easy to cause confusion if you can't recognize the stuffing.

3. Packing

Wrap the cake skins into the weighed cake blanks respectively, and the cake skins should be pressed evenly when wrapping, and the joint should be smooth and even.

4. Molding

Put the wrapped cake blanks into a wooden mold and gently compact them by hand. The pressure should be balanced to make the cakes angular and clear. It should not be skewed.

5. Heating

Spray water into the furnace at 2~22℃, or 298℃ (about 14 minutes) if heated by a cyclone. The cakes in the plate can only be taken out when the crust turns beige or slightly golden. Brush egg paste on the cake surface and put it back into the furnace to be cooked.