Date Paste Pastry Mooncake

Overview

How to cook Date Paste Pastry Mooncake at home

Tags

• baking
• snacks
• mid-autumn festival
• flour
• jujube
• lard
• sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the dates and boil them in water until the dates are round and soft, then take them out.

   

2. 2 Peel, my dates are a bit small, you can use 20 Hotan dates

   

3. 3 Put it into a fresh-keeping bag and press it into jujube paste. Spare.

   

4. 4 Combine the dough and pastry according to the ingredients, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for half an hour. Take out and divide each into ten equal parts.

   

5. 5 Take one part of the oil skin and one part of the pastry, wrap the pastry with the oil skin, pay attention to using the tiger's mouth. Turn the dough upwards little by little to wrap the pastry well.

   

6. 6 Do it all.

   

7. 7 Take one portion and roll it into a shape of beef tongue.

   

8. 8 Roll up.

   

9. 9 All rolled up.

   

10. 10 Take one, close it upwards, and roll it out into a long sheet again.

    

11. 11 Roll it up again, with the seam facing down. Do it in sequence.

    

12. 12 Take one and flatten it into a round shape.

    

13. 13 Add a spoonful of date paste.

    

14. 14 Wrap it well and close it downwards. You can fry it in oil: fry it slowly over low heat; you can also bake it in the oven: preheat it to 180 degrees and bake it for 20 minutes. Fire the middle layer up and down.

    

15. 15 The top is grilled and the bottom is fried.