Bean paste and egg yolk meringue mooncakes

Overview

Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival for family reunion. It, along with the Spring Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, are known as the three major traditional festivals in China. During this festival, children who have traveled far away should also go home to visit their parents as much as possible. There are parents who miss their children, and there are also brothers and sisters who are not together but are in the same heart. Blood is the same and blood is thicker than water. This is irreplaceable and cannot be given up. Taking advantage of this festival, I made some puff pastry mooncakes and gave them to my family and relatives. Although the mooncakes are small, they have a lot of meaning. The circles of purple sweet potato pastry symbolize home as the center, no matter where you go, home will always be the center; the red bean paste represents a prosperous life and career; the duck egg yolk in the middle represents love in my heart - although I don't say I love you, I always think of you in my heart.

Tags

• baking
• homemade red bean paste
• lard
• liquor
• low-gluten flour xinliang quinoa flour
• purple sweet potato starch
• salted duck egg yolk
• warm water
• powdered sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 All main materials are ready

   

2. 2 First make the water-oil skin: mix the lard and powdered sugar evenly with a manual egg beater, then pour in warm water and beat until the water and milk are blended

   

3. 3 Sift in the Xinliang quinoa pastry flour. If not, you can use low-gluten flour instead

   

4. 4 Use a spatula to mix the flour and lard mixture evenly

   

5. 5 Pour it onto the silicone mat, knead it into a moist dough with your hands, and then wrap it with plastic wrap. This is the dough that has not yet been kneaded

   

6. 6 Next, make the pastry dough: Mix purple sweet potato flour and Xinliang quinoa pastry flour evenly, sift into a basin, and add lard

   

7. 7 Grab it with your hands and knead it into a ball

   

8. 8 Wrap the two types of dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour before use

   

9. 9 Let’s deal with the salted egg yolk: Divide an egg yolk in half, spray white wine on it, if you don’t have a spray bottle, you can also brush it with a wool brush, put it in the middle of the preheated oven, 190 degrees, for 6 minutes, then take it out to cool naturally

   

10. 10 While the egg yolks are cooling, divide the homemade red bean paste into 20g pieces, totaling 18 pieces

    

11. 11 Take a red bean paste ball, press it, and put the cooled duck egg yolk on top

    

12. 12 Seal, form into balls

    

13. 13 Process 18 bean paste egg yolks, cover with plastic wrap and set aside

    

14. 14 Weigh the refrigerated water-oil dough and puff pastry dough, divide each into 9 equal parts, roll into balls, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for 10 minutes

    

15. 15 Take a piece of water-oil dough and flatten it with your hands. It will be slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner at the edges. Place a purple sweet potato pastry ball on top

    

16. 16 Gently hold the dough with the tiger's mouth of your left hand, press the pastry ball with the thumb of your right hand, turn it while wrapping it, seal it tightly; complete the other 8 pieces in the same way, cover with plastic wrap, and let it rest for 20 minutes

    

17. 17 Take a loose pastry dough ball, press it lightly in the middle with a silicone rolling pin, then roll it up, then roll it down again, and roll it into an oval shape. Do not roll it repeatedly, as the dough and pastry will mix and the layers will not form

    

18. 18 Roll it from top to bottom into a roll

    

19. 19 Complete the other items in sequence, then cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 20 minutes

    

20. 20 Take another loose dough roll, use a silicone rolling pin to lightly press it in the middle, then roll it up, then roll it down, and roll it into a rectangular shape

    

21. 21 Roll it into a roll from top to bottom, complete the other steps in sequence, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 20 minutes

    

22. 22 Take a dough roll, cut it across the middle with a sharp knife, and with the cut side facing up, you can see circles of patterns inside

    

23. 23 With the cut side facing down, first flatten it with the palm of your hand, then use a rolling pin to roll it into a round crust that is slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner on the edge

    

24. 24 Take a bean paste and egg yolk ball and place it on top

    

25. 25 Gently hold the dough with the tiger's mouth of your left hand, press the bean paste ball with the thumb of your right hand, turn it while wrapping it, and seal it tightly

    

26. 26 There are a total of 18 pieces of purple potato puff pastry. Place them with the seals facing down on a non-stick baking sheet. Look, there are beautiful patterns in circles

    

27. 27 Place in the middle rack of the preheated oven, bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes

    

28. 28 After taking it out of the oven, place it on the baking sheet for a few minutes. When it is warm, gently remove it and place it on a drying rack to cool

    

29. 29 They say the moon represents my heart, but actually mooncakes also represent my heart

    

30. 30 Do my relatives realize my love for them

    

31. 31 Love does not need to be expressed, but love must be in the heart

    

32. 32 I wish everyone and every family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival