If you don't have converted syrup and find it troublesome to make your own, you can use honey instead, or if you don't have honey on hand, sugar is fine.
It's easy to make your own mooncakes, and today I'm sharing one that I made myself, without converted syrup and with white granulated sugar.
Ingredients and preparation of five-kernel mooncakes
Mooncake crust ingredients:
Peanut oil (or corn oil): 70 grams
Sugar: 30 grams
Flour: 200 grams
Water: 60 grams
Filling ingredients:
Walnut kernels: 80 grams
Raisins: 70g
Cooked sesame seeds: 40g
Cooked melon seeds: 70g
Peanut kernels: 120g
Flour: 170g
Sugar: 75g
Peanut oil (or corn oil): 40g
Cool boiled water: 70g
1, the moon cake crust making.
Mix the ingredients for the mooncake crust together, add 60 grams of water, knead into a soft dough, cover with plastic wrap and let rise.
2. Prepare the filling ingredients.
The flour for the filling and the dried nuts should be cooked, but if they are raw, they should be processed and fried.
(1) Stir-fry the flour
(2) Stir-fry the peanuts, remove the skins and crush them.
(3), walnuts, fried, crushed.
(4), raisins cleaned, chopped.
3, the various ingredients mixed well, and finally add about 70 grams of water, the amount of water to the filling can be pinched into a ball prevail. The filling should be pinched solid, not too thin, so as not to burst open after baking.
4, the pie crust and filling evenly divided into dough. The crust is 17 grams per piece, and the filling is 35 grams per piece. These ingredients will make 20 50g mooncakes.
5. Wrap the mooncakes, coat the outside of the dough with dry flour, and press them into shape with a mold.
6, prepare egg yolk water. For one egg yolk, add the same amount of cold boiled water as the yolk and mix well.
7: Bake the mooncakes in the oven for 5 minutes to harden the crust.
8: Remove the mooncakes, brush with egg yolk mixture, bake in the oven for 5 minutes, remove from the oven, brush with egg yolk mixture for a second time, and bake for another 5 minutes.
19, five kernel moon cake is ready.
Summary:
1, the moon cake is ready to cool, can be eaten directly, do not need to wait for the oil back.
2, seal the mouth with a food bag to prevent the crust from drying out.
3, you want the crust to look good, you can add brown sugar in the crust ingredients, the mold brush oil anti-stick, the dough does not stain the dry flour.