How to make lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncakes

1. Lishui is an alkaline aqueous solution with complex ingredients. If you can't buy it, you can mix edible alkaline noodles and water in a ratio of 1:3 instead (for example, 10 grams of alkaline noodles mixed with 30 grams of water can make 40 grams of soda water). Add soy water to the inverted syrup and stir to mix evenly.

2. Add peanut oil to the mixed syrup and stir to mix evenly.

3. Pour in flour and milk powder

4. Knead into dough. Wrap the kneaded dough in plastic wrap and let it rest for 1 hour.

5. Prepare raw salted egg yolk (note that cooked salted egg yolk is not recommended). If your salted egg yolk is fishy, ??soak the salted egg yolk in vegetable oil for half an hour to remove the fishy smell.

6. After the dough has rested, divide it into small portions as needed. Divide the lotus paste filling into corresponding small portions. The ratio of skin to filling is 2:8. For example, if you want to make 100-gram mooncakes, divide the dough into 20-gram pieces, add lotus paste filling and egg yolk to make 80 grams.

7. Divide 1 portion of lotus paste filling into two pieces and put egg yolk in the middle.

8. Fill the lotus paste filling with egg yolk and roll it into a round shape.

9. Take a piece of pie crust dough and flatten it on the palm of your hand. (The pie crust dough is relatively sticky, so pat some flour on your palms to prevent it from sticking)

10. Place the lotus paste filling in the middle of the dough.

11. Use both hands to slowly push up the pie crust to wrap the lotus paste.

12. Continue to push up until the lotus paste is completely covered. Pay attention and try to make the crust evenly thick so that the filling is not exposed.

13. After wrapping, it will become a round ball.

14. Pat a little flour on the ball to facilitate unmoulding. Put the ball dough into the mooncake mold.

15. Press the mooncake mold directly on the baking sheet to press out the mooncake pattern (do not apply oil on the baking sheet or put anti-stick material on it, but you can put tin foil on it).

16. Lift the mooncake mold and that’s it. Spray some water on the surface of the mooncakes and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees. Bake for about 5 minutes. After the mooncake pattern is set, take it out and brush the surface with egg yolk water (only brush the surface, not the sides), then put it in the oven and bake until it becomes a drum shape around the mooncake and the crust is evenly colored. . It takes about 20 minutes to bake (the time is for reference only, please adjust according to the actual conditions of the oven).