To make mooncake crust we need the following materials:

200g of low-flour, 160g of maltose, 50g of oil, 3g of amaranthine water, mung bean paste filling balls, egg yolks

Practice is as follows:

1. crust practice: Molasses syrup into the microwave oven to heat the melted and mixed well with amaranthine water.

2. Pour in 50g cooking oil and mix well again.

3. Sift in 200g of low-flour gently mix well.

4. Mix well and knead into a smooth dough and put it into a plastic bag, then put it into the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

5. moon cake practice: according to the size of the mold in order to facilitate the novice kneading filling to dough ratio of 6:4.

6. moon cake crust dough pressed into a round piece, put a mung bean paste filling balls.

7. Gently push the dough upward so that it wraps tightly around the ball of mung bean paste filling, then seal the dough and gently knead it.

8. Put some dry flour on your hands and roll the ball of dough, dip it in a little dry flour and then cover the ball of mooncake blanks with a mooncake mold and gently press the handle down.

9. To release the mooncake mold, just pick up the mold and gently press the handle again, and the mooncake will come out.

10. Preheat the oven, put the baking sheet with moon cake blanks into the oven, bake at 220 for about 8-10 minutes, remove the baking sheet and let it cool for 5 minutes, brush it with egg yolk mixture, and then put it back into the oven to bake at 200 degrees for about 8-10 minutes. When the moon cake is completely cooled, put it into a ziplock bag to return to the oil can be.

Mid-Autumn Festival food customs on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. In the Song Dynasty, the great poet Su Dongpo praised mooncakes in his poem, "A small cake is like chewing the moon, with crispy and syrupy filling," from which we can see that mooncakes during the Song Dynasty were already filled with ghee and sugar. To the Yuan Dynasty, it is rumored that people have used the opportunity to gift moon cakes, moon cakes with a note, agreed to the night of August 15, at the same time to act, kill and drive away the Mongolian "Tartars". In the Ming Dynasty, the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival became more common. Ming Shen Bung "Wan Department of Miscellany" contains: "Scholarly and common people's families are all to the month of making cakes to leave each other, the size of the different, called the moon cake."