Cantonese style moon cake

Cantonese style moon cake

Category: Festive kitchen

Kitchen: chinese

Ingredients
Dough.
Wheat flour	100 g
Powdered milk	5 gr.
Sugar syrup	75 ml.
Vegetable oil	25 ml.
Baking powder	1 gr.
Filling
Coconut flakes	200 gr.
Powdered sugar	100gr.
Egg	2 pcs. (100 gr.)
Powdered milk	30gr.
For greasing the top of baked goods
Yolk	1 PC.

Cooking method

• On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, China celebrates the Autumn Full Moon - Zhongqiujie. This day is an official day off in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the harvest festival, as it coincides in time with the end of the harvest. This holiday is also called the Moon Festival or the Evening of the Full Moon Watching. The full moon in China symbolizes family well-being and prosperity, so on this holiday, which falls on the full moon, all family members gather. An obligatory meal of the feast is "moon cakes" made from wheat flour with different fillings (different in different parts of China). It is customary to give flat cakes to friends, acquaintances and relatives.
• I added finely chopped candied pineapple and papaya fruits to the filling, 50 gr., Taking 150 gr. coconut.
• So. Combine coconut shavings, chopped candied fruits, powdered sugar and milk powder. Add egg and stir well. Roll the balls into 40 grams. Put in the refrigerator.
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• Combine sugar syrup, vegetable oil. Add sifted flour (I took rice 1: 1 with wheat), milk powder and baking powder. Knead the dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
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• For the sugar syrup, I just boiled 3 tbsp. l. sand in 100 ml. water. But if you do it right, then you need to cook invert syrup for 40 - 60 minutes. 400 gr. take 180 ml of sugar. water and 50 ml of lemon juice. Add sugar to the water, stir and bring to a boil over medium heat. Add lemon juice and cook over low heat until amber color.
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• An hour later we take out the dough and roll the balls of 20 grams. each. Then we put them in the freezer for 3 - 4 minutes.
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• We grease our hands with vegetable oil and form balls, wrapping the filling in the dough.
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• I put them in the freezer too. I don't have a traditional yuebin mold, and I decided to take the risk of trying to make them in silicone molds. (They are knocked out of the traditional form, they are pressed very tightly there, but in the silicone mold it was not possible to achieve a clear relief.) Carefully pry with a knife and put into the mold, correct the edges and take out.
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• We put them in preheated to 200 gr. oven for 5 minutes. At this time, mix the yolk with 1 tbsp. l. water. We take out our yuebins and grease them carefully so as not to move the thin dough with a brush, otherwise there will be cracks. We bake for another 15 minutes.

The dish is designed for

10 pieces.

Time for preparing:

2 hours.

Cooking program:

Oven.

Note

Recipe from the site - 🔗
In this recipe, the ratio of dough to filling is 3: 6. After reading, I saw that they often do 4: 6 and even 1: 1, if it is very difficult to wrap, but it depends on the test. In this recipe, you can increase the amount of dough by * 1.3, that is, make 4: 6 (26 grams each), so it will be easier to pack the filling, although I already got used to it.
The dough turned out to be crispy, moderately sweet and the mixture of candied pineapple and papaya is very appropriate. It stands out beautifully in the filling.

Bon Appetit

Interesting pie! I'll bookmark it.
Larissa, thank you!

Galin, and very tasty. And the dough crunches and the filling.

Larissa, you are a wizard! You find such unusual recipes and reproduce the main thing!
I won't even try to cook most of your miracles, but I always read and admire your creations with great interest and pleasure!
Where did you get such an interest and love for Chinese cuisine?

Unfortunately, I have not prepared all Splyushechka's recipes either.
But I read and admire with such pleasure! Larissa, thank you very much!

Where did you get such an interest and love for Chinese cuisine?

Thank you. I'm glad we liked it. And it's not at all difficult to do, just start. And my family and I really liked the Chinese cuisine. Scream. They ask for steamed bread to cook. And before this competition, I was not even interested in Chinese dishes, but they are so interesting. So we expand our horizons It's a pity that we do not have many products, but what we have - prices bite.

[povitrulya]

povitrulya Tanya, thank you. Ours are still years, we will cook. Where will we go (otherwise the family will eat instead of rolls)

I really love Chinese food, although it is different in terms of regions, and I cook a lot with great pleasure! but baking and desserts are somehow even scary to start
Maybe somehow with your light hand I will dare to try! ..

[Larissa]

Larissa, very appetizing things! An interesting recipe, I'll try it with pleasure!

[Vei]

Vei If you love Chinese cuisine, then you will definitely succeed, just start and not stop, you will also teach us Maybe I'm trying to beat you up for this
Twist Be sure to try, they cannot but please