Beautiful and delicious straw hat cake

Overview

The first time I made cakes was in my first year of baking. That year I followed some food experts on Weibo and saw everyone posting various egg yolk cakes and matcha cakes online. Later, I looked up the recipe and started practicing it myself. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I don’t eat mooncakes of various flavors. In addition to egg yolk cakes, I like matcha cakes. I like the crispy layers. I made this straw hat cake just before the New Year. It seems complicated to make, but when you see the results after making it, you will feel that everything is worth it. Whether you eat it for yourself and your family or give it as a gift to your relatives and friends, it is a good choice. I made the bean paste myself, using the jam function of the bread machine. You can add the amount of sugar to the bean paste you make based on how sweet you like it.

Tags

• baking
• all-purpose flour
• brown sugar
• cocoa powder
• corn oil
• lard
• low gluten flour
• purple sweet potato starch
• red beans
• yellow pigment
• powdered sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 First put the red beans in the pressure cooker and cook them thoroughly. The red beans cooked in the pressure cooker will already have a certain amount of moisture. Put the cooled red beans into a breaker and grind into red bean puree. If you don’t have a wall breaker at home, you can also use a food processor. (Here I will teach you a method. If you don’t have a wall-breaking machine or a food processor at home, you can put the cooked red beans into a fresh-keeping bag, seal it well, and use a rolling pin to roll the red beans into red bean paste. You can practice it.)

   

2. 2 Pour the beaten red bean puree into the bread machine, add corn oil and brown sugar. Activate the jam function. (If you don’t have a bread machine, you can use a non-stick pan to make the bean paste filling, which is also possible. Add corn oil to the non-stick pan, then add bean paste and brown sugar and stir in the red bean paste intermittently. Make red bean paste in a non-stick pan over low heat.)

   

3. 3 The bean paste filling is ready. (If there is leftover bean paste filling, you can store it in plastic wrap and make bean paste buns or bean paste rolls later).

   

4. 4 To make the dough, put all the dough ingredients into the bread machine. Start the dough kneading function, mix the ingredients evenly, add a few drops of yellow pigment, and continue kneading until a film forms.

   

5. 5 After the dough is ready, make the puff pastry. Mix the ingredients for the puff pastry and knead until it forms a ball.

   

6. 6 Divide the pastry into two equal parts, add purple sweet potato flour to one part and cocoa powder to one part, and knead until even.

   

7. 7 Take a small portion of the dough and set aside for later use. Divide the remaining dough into 6 equal portions. Divide the pastry into three equal portions and cover with plastic wrap to rest for 15 minutes.

   

8. 8 Take a portion of the dough, roll it into a ball and flatten it, wrap it in a portion of original pastry and seal it tightly. Pay attention when wrapping, push the oily skin up slowly, until everything is wrapped, then tighten the seal.

   

9. 9 Roll out into a long strip.

   

10. 10 Roll up from bottom to top. After rolling, cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 10 minutes. At this time, it’s time to prepare the bean paste and egg yolk filling. Take an appropriate amount of bean paste, roll it into a ball, flatten it, add the egg yolk, and use your hands to form a ball. After wrapping, cover with plastic wrap and set aside.

    

11. 11 Flatten the risen curls and roll them out again. Note: When rolling it out for the second time, don’t roll it out too wide, try to make it into a rectangular shape. Then roll it up from bottom to top. After all the rolls are done, cover with plastic wrap and continue to rise for 20 minutes.

    

12. 12 At this time, make the bean paste and egg yolk filling. First, take the yolk from the salted duck egg and rinse off the outer layer of membrane, so that the yolk does not have a fishy smell. Then preheat the oven to 170 degrees and bake for 5 minutes. After the egg yolks have cooled, take an appropriate amount of bean paste and wrap it in the egg yolks, roll them into balls and set aside.

    

13. 13 Then take a piece of puff pastry and cut it in half with a sharp knife.

    

14. 14 Use a rolling pin to roll the puff pastry into a round shape. Note that there are many lines on the outside. Take a portion of bean paste filling and wrap it in it. Push from bottom to top to wrap the filling.

    

15. 15 Tighten the wrapped pastry with the opening facing down.

    

16. 16 Take another piece of puff pastry and cut it into 5 equal parts for the bottom of the straw hat.

    

17. 17 Take a small portion and roll it flat.

    

18. 18 Place the rolled puff pastry base under the wrapped purple sweet potato puff pastry.

    

19. 19 Take a small part of the remaining oil skin and roll it into a long strip, and wrap the purple sweet potato cake in a circle. Then roll out the dough and press some bows as decoration for the straw hat pastry.

    

20. 20 Make the straw hat cake and put it on the baking tray. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees for 30 minutes.

    

21. 21 Straw Hat Crispy