Mid-Autumn Festival 2023: How to make mooncakes with a variety of fillings

What is Moon Cake?

Moon cake or baked cake is a type of cake that is often eaten and sold a lot during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes originated in China. But gradually, the cake that symbolizes this full moon festival has a very diverse variation in each country in the world.

How to make simple mixed mooncakes

Preparation ingredients

• 300g flour
• 20g cake dough
• 50g sausage, diced
• 50g peeled melon seeds
• 50g cashew nuts, crushed
• 50g pumpkin jam, diced
• 50g white sesame
• 2 cups cinnamon apricot wine
• 20ml grapefruit flower essential oil
• 20ml lemon juice
• 20ml sesame oil
• 2 egg yolks, beaten
• 500g white sugar
• Cooking oil
• Lemon leaves, thin iron

Step 1: Make white sugar water

• Put 500g of white sugar in the pot with 500ml of pure water in the pot
• Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water
• Put the sugar water mixture on the stove and boil for 15 minutes
• The sugar water boils, reduce the heat, continue to boil the sugar water with low heat for 5-7 minutes
• Pour 20ml of lemon juice into the pot of sugar water
• Hold the pot handle, shake gently on both sides for the lemon juice to dissolve with the sugar water
• Pour the sugar water mixture through a sieve, filter out impurities
• Finally, pour the sugar water into a bowl, let it cool

Step 2: Make the cake

• Put in a bowl including: 50gr sausage + 50gr melon seeds + 50gr cashew nuts + 50gr pumpkin jam + 50gr white sesame + 20gr flexible cake powder + 20ml grapefruit flower essential oil + 20ml sesame oil + thin lime leaves
• Mix all these ingredients together for 5-7 minutes
• Using a spoon, try to squeeze the cake into the bowl, the cake will stick together, forming a homogeneous mass
• Wearing plastic gloves, divide the cake into small pieces
• Finally, round the filling
• Place the filling on a clean plate and store it

Step 3: Make the crust

• Put in a bowl including: 300gr flour + 200gr cooked sugar water + 80ml cooking oil
• Mix all the adhesive ingredients together
• Use your hands, knead and squeeze gently for 5-7 minutes to form a smooth, uniform, non-sticky dough.
• Wrap the food in cling film, let the dough rest for 30 minutes to rest and soften

Step 4: Create the cake shape

• Take out the dough that has just been brewed above
• Fold the dough in two horizontally and vertically several times to form a rectangle
• Using a knife, divide the dough into equal parts
• Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a round shape
• Place the filling in the center of the crust
• Use your hands to grasp the edges of the crust to cover the filling
• Shape the dough to make it round
• Put the cake you just molded into the cake mold
• Press firmly with your hand and hold about 10 pieces of paper to create an eye-catching shape for the cake

Step 5: Bake the cake

• Line a layer of foil on the bottom of the baking tray
• Brush a thin layer of cooking oil on the foil
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes
• Arrange the cake neatly on the foil
• Put the cake tray into the oven and bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius
• Take out the cake, spread a layer of egg yolk mixture around the cake
• Continue to put the cake in the oven, bake the cake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees, the cake is cooked
• When the cake is done, turn off the oven, take it out, let it cool, then cut it into small pieces and enjoy

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How to make soft mung bean mooncakes

Preparation ingredients

• 320g glutinous rice flour
• 300g peeled green beans
• 20g cornstarch
• 10ml grapefruit flower essential oil
• 10ml lemon juice
• 1kg white sugar
• 2 egg yolks, beaten
• Cooking oil
• Grain salt

Step 1: Prepare green beans

• Rinse green beans 2-3 times under clean running water
• Using your hands, pick up impurities, damaged seeds, and green beans
• Rinse green beans 2-3 times under clean running water
• Soak green beans in warm water for 4-6 hours to soften the beans
• Pick up the green beans, shake lightly and let the beans drain

Step 2: Stew green beans

• Put green beans in a pot with 500ml of purified water
• Put 1/2 teaspoon of granulated salt in the pot of green beans
• Stir well until the salt dissolves with the green beans
• Cook green beans over high heat for 60 minutes
• While boiling green beans, skim off the floating air bubbles in the pot
• Stir green beans evenly, avoid burning and stir green beans

Step 3: Puree green beans

• Cooked green beans are soft, use a sieve to remove the green beans and let the green beans drain
• Break the green beans into small pieces and grind them one at a time
• Press the button and proceed to puree, smooth the green beans for 10 minutes

Step 4: Green bean slug

• Put the oil in the pan and heat the oil
• When the oil is hot, add 500g of white sugar and melt it
• Pour the whole mung bean paste into the slug along with the sugar on low heat
• Just slug the mung bean paste and stir it all the time to avoid the stuffing and burning
• Put 20g of cornstarch with 300ml of purified water in a bowl
• Stir until cornstarch is dissolved in water
• Slowly pour the cornstarch water mixture into the pot of green beans that is on the stove
• Stir well until the cornstarch water mixture dries up and thickens with the green bean paste
• Filled with concentrated green beans, add 20g of glutinous rice flour to the pan of green beans
• Continue to stir the green bean paste to form a smooth, non-sticky dough that is satisfactory
• Turn off the heat, pour the green bean paste into a bowl, let it cool
• Divide the green bean paste into small pieces
• Round the green bean paste, store it in the refrigerator

Step 5: Make sugar water

• Put 500g of white sugar in the pot with 500ml of pure water in the pot
• Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water
• Put the sugar water mixture on the stove and boil for 15 minutes
• The sugar water boils, reduce the heat, continue to boil the sugar water with low heat for 5-7 minutes
• Pour 20ml of lemon juice into the pot of sugar water
• Hold the pot handle, shake gently on both sides for the lemon juice to dissolve with the sugar water
• Pour the sugar water mixture through a sieve, filter out impurities
• Finally, pour the sugar water into a bowl, let it cool

Step 6: Make the crust

• Add 10ml of grapefruit flower essential oil to the finished sugar water bowl. Beat it together
• Slowly add 300g of glutinous rice flour into the sugar-water mixture
• Using a whisk, beat the mixture together
• Using your hands, knead and squeeze gently for 5-7 minutes to form a uniform, smooth, non-sticky dough.
• Wrap the food in cling film, incubate the dough for 30 minutes to soften the dough

Step 7: Shape the cake

• Spread the cake batter on a clean plate
• Divide the dough into small pieces
• Using a rolling pin, flatten the thin cake dough into a round shape
• Take out the mung bean paste, place each green bean paste in the middle of the dough
• Using your hands, grasp the edges of the dough tightly to seal, covering the filling
• Shape the dough into a circle
• Put the cake you just molded into the cake mold
• Press and hold for about 10 seconds to shape the cake

Step 8: Bake the cake

• Line a layer of foil on the bottom of the baking tray
• Brush a thin layer of cooking oil on the foil
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes
• Arrange the cake neatly on the foil
• Put the cake tray into the oven and bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius
• Take out the cake, spread a layer of egg yolk mixture around the cake
• Continue to put the cake in the oven, bake the cake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees, the cake is cooked
• When the cake is done, turn off the oven, take it out, let it cool, then cut it into small pieces and enjoy

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How many calories are mooncakes? Does eating cake make you fat?

If you are following a healthy diet to lose weight, then you certainly want to know how many calories are in mooncakes, right? And this is a very good question that nutritionists don’t want to ignore such a good question.

• In 100g of mixed mooncakes, it provides 706 calories
• In 100g of moon cake filled with green beans, it provides 648 calories

• According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an adult will need a maximum of 667 calories per meal. Meanwhile, a mooncake has accounted for about 2/3 of the daily calories required for the body

See more: 100GR Green beans how many calories? Weight loss dishes from green beans?

Conclude

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