Tools/ingredients
Bean paste, eggs, flour, bee syrup, alkaline water and crude oil (preferably olive oil or tea seed oil)
Methods/steps
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First, mix the flour, and make it into dough. In this process, add bee syrup and tea seed oil to the flour. 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.
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Knead the bought bean paste into a small round cake, wrap it in egg yolk, and wrap it tightly to form 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.
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The next step is to bake it in the microwave oven. Before putting it in the baking tray, you should also 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.
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Divide the crust of each moon cake according to the weight.
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Divide the fillings to be made into moon cakes, and be familiar with all kinds of stuffing formulas and practices. For example, add an egg yolk in the middle; 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's easy to cause confusion if you can't recognize the stuffing.
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In stuffing, the cake skins are respectively wrapped with the weighed cake blanks, and when wrapping, the cake skins should be pressed evenly, and the joint should be smooth and even.
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Put the wrapped cake blanks into a wooden mold and gently compact them by hand, and flatten them. The pressure should be balanced to make the cakes angular and clear. It should not be skewed.
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Before heating, spray water into the furnace, and the furnace temperature is 2~22℃. If the furnace is heated by a hot cyclone, the furnace temperature is 298℃ (about 14 minutes). The cakes in the plate can only be taken out when the crust turns beige or slightly golden yellow. Brush the egg paste on the cake surface, and then put it back into the furnace to be cooked.
Precautions
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 the eggs in the stuffing, so that when baking moon cakes, the oil from the yolk will melt into the crust of moon cakes.