◆Process: First of all, you need to make the flour, add bee syrup, alkaline water and raw oil into the flour to make the dough. In this process, you need to add sugar syrup, alkaline water and oil into the flour. How much to add in the end, you can add and knead it in the ratio of 5:4:1.4:1, and you need to knead it again and again until the dough is formed into a ball. Next, pull the dough into small balls of the same size and roll them out into cakes. Boil the eggs in a pan and remove the shells and whites, peel out the yolks and set aside.

Shape the bean paste into small round cakes, wrap them in the egg yolks, and then wrap them tightly to form the filling. Once the filling is ready, it's time to make the cake balls. Wrap the filling into the rolled out pastry and knead the balls. The next step is to make the balls look like mooncakes, which can be done according to your personal preference. Although the moon is full on the night of Mid-Autumn, the mooncakes don't have to be round. In order to facilitate can also be made into not completely regular square, the cake ball gently patting pressure, even thickness, to remove the excess of its edges, simple trimming a little. The first mold of the mooncake has been made, and the most tedious part of the whole process has been completed.

The next step is to microwave the mooncakes and brush them with an egg wash, made from three egg yolks and one whole egg, before placing them on the baking sheet. Set the microwave to grill mode and grill on medium-high for about 20 minutes, removing it once in the middle and brushing it with the egg sauce again. This way the homemade mooncake is ready. Mid-Autumn Moon Festival to enjoy the moon when tasting their own baked moon cakes this feeling you do not want to know? The first thing you need to do is to make your own mooncakes, and you'll have a lot of fun doing it.

While the shape and flavor of homemade mooncakes are not as good as those bought, they are definitely memorable.

Homemade mooncakes

The proportion of flour should be flexible according to the ingredients used in the house.

◎The best way to use the egg in the filling is to use a raw egg yolk, so that when the mooncake is baked, the oil from the egg yolk will melt into the mooncake crust. But if you're doing it for the first time, it's better to use cooked ones.

◎The length of time to bake in the microwave should be based on the size of the mooncake, you can also open the oven to look at the baking process, so as not to burn.

◎In order to bake the mooncakes more flavorful, in the dough can add a little less butter, but remember not to add more, so as not to rise.

The production of Cantonese mooncakes

1.split the skin

The mooncake skin has been rolled according to the specifications of the catty two divided into each mooncake skin.

2. Filling

To make mooncake varieties of filling according to the amount of weighing, to be familiar with the various filling recipes and practices. Such as single yellow lotus seed paste, add an egg yolk in the middle; double or triple yellow, lotus seed paste, the lotus seed paste should be divided into two or three parts, each part of the lotus seed paste and then wrapped into an egg yolk, to two or three in one method of wrapping into a cake blank. The five-kernel filling should be pinched and rounded, but the filling should not be pinched for too long, otherwise it will ooze oil and leave the shell. Each kind of filling should be labeled in the conversion process, due to the wrapping of the pie crust of the biscuit, can not identify its filling is easy to cause confusion.

3. package filling

Package of the pie crust were wrapped in a good weighing of the biscuits, packaged when the pie crust should be pressed to the right, the mouth should be rounded and even.

4. Forming

Put the wrapped biscuits into a wooden mold and gently press them with your hands to flatten them. The pressure should be balanced, so that the corners of the cake are clear, clear pattern. Then take the cake to the edge of the board will be patted out of the cake biscuits, demolding should pay attention to the cake shape of the flat, should not be skewed.

5. heating

First spray water into the oven, oven temperature 200 ~ 220 ℃, such as the use of hot cyclone oven, oven temperature 298 ℃ (time 14 minutes or so), the tray of cakes baked to the crust to turn beige or a slight golden yellow before you can pull out, brush the cake surface with egg paste, and then back into the oven to bake until cooked through.