RECIPE FOR TRADITIONAL LOTUS PASTE MOONCAKES 莲蓉月饼

Mooncakes Skin

120 grams of cake flour
70 grams of golden syrup
30 grams of sunflower oil
4 grams of alkaline water

Fillings

Store bought lotus paste

Egg washing

1 egg yolk plus 1 tablespoon of milk plus few drops of sunflower oil.

Others - Yield 10 mooncakes

50 gram mooncakes mould

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients from the mooncake skin, leave at room temperature for at least 3 hours. 
2. Weight 20 gram of mooncake skin and 30 gram of the fillings.
3. Shape it in round.
4. Wrap the fillings in the mooncake skin.
5. Mould your mooncakes with any mooncake mould.
6. Let it rest for about 15 minutes.
7. Baked at the preheated oven for 10 minutes @ 165 C, take out and let it cool for 5 minutes. Then apply egg wash. 
8. Send it back to oven for another 15 minutes.

Recipe credits to: Mr Kenneth Goh

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