Moon cake, also known as moon ball, small cake, harvest cake, reunion cake and so on, is one of the traditional Han cuisine in China. Here is my compilation of easy ways to make mooncakes for you, I hope you like it.
Simple way to make mooncakes 1
I. Egg yolk and lotus seed paste mooncake
Ingredients: 100g of low-flour, 25g of peanut oil, 70g of transformed syrup, 300g of lotus seed paste filling, 5g of custard, 5 salted egg yolks, 1g of alkaline, 1 egg.
Preparation method:
1, first of all, the syrup will be heated, hot syrup in the addition of water, and then add peanut oil constantly stirring until uniform, let cool and spare.
2, sifted flour, a little bit poured into the sugar-oil syrup.
3. Mix well with a rubber spatula to form a dough, and let it stand at room temperature for 2 hours.
4. Take out the oiled dough, divide it into 30 grams each, and divide the lotus seed paste filling into 60 grams each.
5. Spray egg yolks with a tablespoon of white wine, steam for 15 minutes until cooked, take out and let cool, and flatten the lotus seed paste filling into the egg yolks and then roll.
Second, coarse grain moon cake
Ingredients: millet flour 50g, rhubarb rice flour 50g, glutinous rice flour 10g, 10g of sugar, 90g of water, mung bean paste 120g, 50g of cooked walnuts.
Preparation:
1, millet and rhubarb rice flour, glutinous rice flour add sugar mix. Add water and mix into a batter.
2, put the batter into the steamer, the first 5 minutes to stir the batter a few times. Steam the rice paste, remove and cool.
3, cooked walnuts chopped. Put them in a bowl and add mung bean paste and mix well.
4, the mung bean paste into 20 grams of a small ball into the refrigerator.
5. Divide the crust ingredients into 30g balls. Grease a mooncake mold.
6. Wrap the mung bean paste in one of the crusts. Tighten up the mouth.
7: Place the crust face up into the mooncake mold and press it with the flower piece. The mooncake molding knocked out, that is good.
Third, five kernel moon cake
Ingredients: walnuts 400g, raisins 200g, 200g almonds, sesame seeds 50g, 200g fructanskin, honey 800g, 500g of fried wheat flour, 50g sesame oil, 500g of flour, 100g of starch, 40g of custard powder, 3g of soda. 140g peanut oil.
Preparation:
1. Make moon cake filling.
400g of walnuts, 200g of raisins, 200g of almonds, 50g of sesame seeds, 200g of fructan bark, 800g of honey, 500g of fried wheat flour, 50g of sesame oil.
2. Moon cake crust materials.
500g of flour, 100g of cornstarch, 40g of custard mixed and sifted; 400g of honey heated for 5 minutes to simmer until thick, 3g of soda dissolved into 7g of water, add honey, and another 140g of peanut oil ready to join the honey and mix well, and finally the mix of sifted powder at once into the mix and leave it for 2 hours to stand by.
3, package moon cake. Take 60g of pie crust and 140g of five-nut filling and wrap it into a ball shape.
4. Stick some flour on the surface and press it into the mooncake mold to fill it up. Then knock out from the mold, a moon cake is ready.
5. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius, spray a layer of water on the surface of the mooncake, and bake in the middle for 10 minutes. After taking out, brush the surface of the whole egg, and then into the oven, continue to bake until the surface of the brown on it, the whole process of about 25 minutes or so.
Four, fruit moon cake
Ingredients: 500g of low gluten flour, 350g of sugar syrup, 800g of fruit moon cake filling, 120g of vegetable oil, 2g of salt, 7g of lye.
Preparation:
1, sugar syrup, lye and water mix, and then add the oil and mix well. Sift the flour and salt and knead into a dough, dough wake up 30 minutes before use, dough according to the size of their molds into small portions.
2, the fruit filling into a small ball and dough the same size, flatten the ball of dough, dough wrapped around the ball of filling dough, dough ball into the mold, pressed into flower shape.
3, pressed moon cakes on a greased baking tray at 210 degrees for 5 minutes, brush with egg wash, then 180 degrees 20 minutes; then 180 degrees 20 minutes baked until the surface is completely colored.
Simple way to make mooncakes 2
Ice skin mooncakes with pineapple filling
Ingredients: ice skin powder 1kg, 900g of cold boiled water, 100g of white oil, cut pineapple meat 1200g or so, white sugar in moderation.
Directions:
Step 1: Break the pineapple pulp into pieces and add sugar and oil to cook for 30 minutes, and when it cools down, it will be made into pineapple filling.
Step 2: Add the icing powder to the cold water and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes, then fast for 3 minutes, until the surface is smooth and elastic.
Step 3: Mix 100g of white oil in 3 batches with slow speed.
Step 4: Place in the freezer for about an hour and divide into several icing dough balls. Ice skin moon cake skin and filling ratio is not as strict as the broad moon cake, if you like the texture of the ice skin, you can follow the skin and filling 4:3 ratio of the moon cake, you can also reduce the ratio of ice skin, such as 3:4. However, the ice skin is too thin, one is not good to wrap, the filling is prone to leak out, the other is that it looks like it will be able to clearly see the internal filling, not so beautiful. As for the specific weight, it depends on the specifications of the mold.
Step 5: Dip your hand in a little cooked glutinous rice flour, roll out the ice sheet into a round piece with a thick center and thin edges, wrap it in the filling, knead it into a ball shape, and dip it in a little cooked glutinous rice flour on the outer layer of the ball.
Step 6: Press into a mooncake mold. The mold is also sticky with some powder, which is used to prevent sticking and facilitate the release of the mold `. The mooncake mold can be purchased online, Taobao, various shapes and sizes of molds are available. The most commonly used is the white plastic press mold.
Step 7: After the shape of the good need to be placed in the refrigerator, frozen and then eat the taste better.
Characteristics: Although the price of iced mooncakes is more expensive than many varieties of mooncakes, but in fact the iced mooncake DIY is very simple and does not require the use of the oven.
TIPS: Ice skin powder in the supermarket or Taobao are sold; with ice skin powder made of dough is originally cooked, so the filling package can be directly eaten; ice skin powder itself contains sugar, so the production of pie crust does not need to add sugar; filling can be a variety of: lotus seed paste filling, pineapple filling, taro puree filling and so on. You can make your own, or buy small packages of ready-made fillings online; making iced mooncakes must pay attention to hygiene, it is best to wear sanitary gloves during the operation.
Bean paste shortcrust moon cake
Ingredients: 150 grams of high-gluten flour, 350 grams of low-gluten flour, 300 grams of lard, mixing well, to be used as a shortening; 500 grams of flour, lard 125 grams of lard, 200 grams of water, mixing well, to be used as a watery oil skin; 240 grams of red beans, 100 grams of sugar, 3 spoons of salad oil as a filling; egg blended with an egg to make the moon cake. Filling; egg sauce with eggs, the ratio of 3 yolks 1 whole egg, to be used.
Methods:
Step 1: First make the bean paste filling. Red beans plus 6 times the volume of water into the pressure cooker, on the gas after cooking on low heat for about 60 minutes, until it cools naturally, open the lid out;
Step 2: Add a small amount of water with a blender into a paste, and pour into the pan on low heat and stir fry dry to the moisture is almost dry after adding sugar continue to stir fry until uniform; salad oil in 3 times to add to the red bean paste in the frying, every time to be completely absorbed oil to be completely absorbed and then add the next, to be completely absorbed after the sheng out. The coloring oil is added to the red bean paste in 3 batches, and then the next one is added after the oil is completely absorbed.
Step 3: Divide the pastry dough into 10 equal parts, divide the dough into 10 equal parts, and wrap the pastry in oil and press it into pieces.
Step 4: Divide the filling into 10 portions, shape them into small round cakes and wrap them tightly. Wrap the filling into the rolled out pastry and knead into a ball.
Step 5: Place the mooncakes in a baking dish, brush with a layer of seasoned egg sauce, and place in the oven. Preheat the oven to 200°C and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, removing it once in the middle and brushing it again with the egg sauce. This mooncake can also be fried in oil wok, oil temperature 180 ℃ fried about 5 minutes.
Characteristics: crispy, flavorful, easy to make. It is easy to make and there is no need to use molds, so the ingredients are more random and unlimited.
TIPS: filling can have a variety of options, such as bean paste, lotus seed paste, sesame peanuts, fresh meat filling, etc., 300 grams, you can buy ready-made, you can also do it yourself; into the oven to bake the time should be based on the size of the moon cakes to control, but also in the process of baking open the oven to look at the process, so as not to scorch. Mooncakes just baked crust is relatively dry and hard, to have 1 ~ 3 days of oil back to the period. Be sure to let them cool completely before sealing or boxing.