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Cantonese-style Pineapple and Salted Egg Yolk Mooncake

Cantonese-style Pineapple and Salted Egg Yolk Mooncake

A homemade recipe for Cantonese-style Pineapple and Salted Egg Yolk Mooncake, combining all-purpose flour, inverted syrup and peanut oil; baked until golden and tender.

Instructions

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    Place all the ingredients for the main dish into a large bowl and mix evenly.

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    Get a dough as soft as an earlobe, cover it with plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for about half an hour to relax. The mooncake crust will then be ready.

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    Prepare the pineapple filling and salted egg yolks (using this kind of cooked salted egg yolks directly).

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    Divide the pineapple filling into 12 equal portions, and take one portion to wrap around a salted egg yolk.

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    Form a circle.

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    Take out the rested mooncake dough and divide it into 12 equal small portions.

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    A small portion of mooncake dough.

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    Take out a mooncake crust and press it once.

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    Press the dough into a large round (this way, the dough you press out will be very even).

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    Wrap in a pineapple and egg yolk filling.

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    Push up slowly.

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    Roll a layer of thin flour and place it into the mold.

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    Press out the flower shape.

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    Complete them all in order.

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    Preheat the oven to 180°C, place in the middle rack, and lightly spray the mooncakes with a little water (to prevent cracking).

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    Put it in the oven and bake for about 5 minutes first.

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    Take out and brush with a thin layer of egg wash.

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    Put it back in the oven, set to 160 degrees, and bake for 20 minutes, then it's ready to take out.

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    Alright.

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    Finished product image.

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    Finished product image.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • All-purpose flour
    180 g
  • lye water
    2 g
  • Salted egg yolk
    12 piece
  • Pineapple filling
    720 g
  • whole egg mixture
    a pinch
  • Mooncake mold
    100 g

Seasonings

  • Inverted syrup
    130 g
  • Peanut oil
    45 g