Every year when the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, you can see supermarkets filled with mooncakes of all sizes. Now that people’s living standards are constantly improving, many mooncake-making merchants will make more mooncakes. There are so many novel flavors of mooncakes for everyone to choose from. Nowadays, mooncakes are relatively expensive. Some friends make them at home. So what is the home-made way to make purple sweet potato mooncakes?

How to make purple sweet potato filling

1. Steam the purple sweet potato, peel off the skin and set aside. Grind it with the back of a knife or puree it in a blender.

2. Put two spoons of peanut oil in the pot, put the purple sweet potato puree in, add 40 grams of sugar and two tablespoons of orange powder and stir-fry continuously until all the oil is absorbed by the potato puree and the water content of the potato puree is reduced and becomes If hard, turn off the heat and let cool.

3. Purple sweet potato has less water and is sweeter, making it easier to make mooncake fillings than beans.

4. The final product is somewhat transparent, which is the function of the orange powder. Adding the orange powder is more conducive to strengthening the hardness of the filling.

Cake crust ingredients

150 grams of inverted syrup, 200 grams of cake flour, 55 grams of peanut oil, 10 grams of custard powder (can be omitted), and 3 grams of sour water.

How to make the cake crust

1. Add the water to the heated syrup and mix well, then add the oil and mix well.

2. Sift the flour into the sugar slurry and mix with a rubber knife to form a dough. Let it rest at room temperature for 2 hours.

3. Divide the dough and filling into small pieces, roll them into round shapes, the ratio of skin to filling is 1:2, and form into balls respectively.

4. Flatten a piece of dough, place the filling in the center, slowly push the dough up to wrap the filling, and form a ball.

5. Pat a little flour on the leather or brush a little oil on the flower slices, and put the ball into the mooncake mold.

6. Place a baking cloth on the baking sheet, press out the mooncakes on the baking sheet, and spray water on the surface.

7. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake on the middle rack for ten minutes, then take it out and let it dry for 5 minutes.

8. After it cools down slightly, brush the surface with egg wash (the ratio of egg yolk to egg white is 2:1).

9. Continue to bake at 180 degrees until the crust is golden, then take out the mooncakes.

After reading the above introduction, I believe that friends who did not know how to make mooncakes before should now know how mooncakes are made. Mooncakes bought outside are not only expensive, but also not as healthy as making them by yourself. It is hygienic, so you can make it at home. Purple sweet potato mooncakes are a good choice.