Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake

Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake

Overview

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. Compared with the mooncakes bought outside, it is better to make them by myself. The round mooncakes represent my longing for my loved ones. What I eat is filled with happiness and sweetness...

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Everyone has seen the ingredients used: all-purpose flour, purple sweet potato, honey, rock sugar, oil, and two eggs.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 1
  2. Steam the purple sweet potato, crush it into pieces, and add 200g of rock sugar or honey to suit your taste.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 2
  3. Add 400g oil and 300g honey to 800g of flour and stir to form a dough. Stir evenly.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 3
  4. I made a large one, with 70g of oily noodles and 50g of purple sweet potato each kneaded into a ball.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 4
  5. Flatten the oily dough like a bun skin, place the purple sweet potato heart in the middle, and knead it into a ball.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 5
  6. Wrap the purple sweet potato heart with oily skin and knead it into a large ball, which should be smooth.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 6
  7. Insert the grinding tool, bottom side down.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 7
  8. Press out a mooncake shape and place it in a baking pan with parchment paper under the baking pan.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 8
  9. Spray some water on the surface first, then put it in the oven to bake. The oven should be preheated to 200 degrees for 3 minutes, then put it in and bake at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 9
  10. When the time is up, take it out, beat the two eggs evenly, and use a brush to brush the egg liquid on the surface of the mooncake, brushing evenly around the sides and the surface.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 10
  11. Put it in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. When the time is up, take it out and brush it with the egg wash a second time. Brush evenly like last time. Put it in the oven for another 15 minutes at 200 degrees. If you like a darker color, you can bake it for 18 minutes at 200 degrees.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 11
  12. Be sure to wait until the mooncakes are cold before cutting and eating, as the mooncakes are relatively firm in shape.

    Purple Sweet Potato Mooncake step 12