how to make moon cakes easy

Although the August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the fever about mooncakes has not cooled down. Yesterday on the train even saw some enthusiastic passengers to the railroad cultural propagandists proposed to sell moon cakes on the train, buy a moon cake to send a small mung bean cake absolute business is booming. Last year, the five-kernel mooncake was ravaged online, and today, although the five-kernel mooncake has turned over, more young people have turned their attention to the chic, visually appealing iced mooncake. I'm going to introduce you to two kinds of iced mooncakes today.

Iced mooncake with bean paste

Take appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and fry until light yellow, add a little milk and oil, then add powdered sugar and stir well for use. Weigh 45g of glutinous rice flour, 35g of sticky rice flour, 20g of clarifying powder, mix well and add to the milk and sugar syrup, stir until no granular powder is present, let it stand for 30 minutes and then put it into a steamer for 20 minutes on high heat, take it out and put it into a plastic bag and press it with your palm until the batter becomes smooth and shiny, then cool it down to form an ice crust. Roll small balls of bean paste into 20g each to make bean paste filling. Take 30g of ice cream and knead it into a ball, spread it into a cake shape and wrap it around a small bean paste ball until the bean paste ball is completely covered. Press the wrapped ball in the mold to make a flower, roll it in cooked glutinous rice flour and it's ready to eat. Advantages: simple tools, no need to bake, lower heat. Disadvantages: single filling, single cake color.

Crashing red bean iced mooncake

Prepare red beans, sugar, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, clarifying powder, milk, a little corn oil, blueberry fruit flavor powder, strawberry fruit flavor powder, pineapple fruit flavor powder; 75g capacity moon cake mold; prepare one day in advance, soak red beans for one day and one night. Put the soaked red beans into a pressure cooker and cook for 1 hour on high heat, after cooling, separate the red beans and red bean water. Add an appropriate amount of oil to the frying pan, when the oil is 7 minutes cooked, add the drained red beans and stir-fry, then add brown sugar according to personal taste, stir-fry until slightly dry into a ball, serve for use. The same method of making ice crust as above. Take out 3 small pieces of ice crust and mix them with pineapple, strawberry and blueberry fruit flavor powder respectively, knead them evenly to make small pieces of ice crust in red, yellow and blue colors. Take appropriate amount of ice crust and red bean filling small ball, wrap the white ice crust with red bean filling to form moon cake small ball. Take small pieces of mooncake dough and red, yellow and blue ice crusts, put them into the mold in order and press them to serve. Advantages: more beautiful mooncake colors and healthier and more nutritious red bean filling. Disadvantages: must be prepared a day in advance, more variety of ingredients used.

Warm Tips

Most areas of the country are still hot in the fall, so it's a good choice to eat ice-cold mooncakes.