There is a folk legend circulating in ancient China. In order to commemorate the anti-Yuan national heroes, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang made round cakes as sacrifices during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, people began to eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and gradually formed a custom. As China’s excellent traditional culture becomes known to more and more people, mooncakes, a traditional Chinese food, are also loved by more and more people. Below I will introduce to you how to make mooncakes.
Steps for making moon cakes
Step 1: prepare ingredients
Choose corresponding ingredients according to different tastes and fillings, such as flour, sugar, oil, fillings, etc.
Step 2: Knead the dough
Mix the flour with an appropriate amount of water, oil, sugar, etc., and knead it into a smooth dough.
Step 3: Make fillings
Mix various ingredients to make fillings, such as five kernels, bean paste, egg yolks, etc.
Step 4: Wrapping the filling
Roll the dough into a thin sheet, wrap the filling in it, and pinch the sealing area tightly.
Step 5: Press mold
Place the wrapped mooncakes into the mold and press out the shape.
Step 6: Bake
Place the mooncakes in the preheated oven and bake until the surface is golden brown.
Step 7: Cooling out of the oven
Take out the baked mooncakes and place them on the baking grid to cool naturally.
Step 8: Packaging
Pack the cooled mooncakes, ready for consumption or storage.
When making mooncakes, you need to pay attention to the following points: first, pay attention to hygiene to avoid food contamination; second, pay attention to the moderate hardness of the dough, too soft or too hard will affect the taste; our UH-206 filling machine is a multi-functional , fully automatic, CNC equipment, which can perfectly meet the production requirements in the process of making mooncakes. The mooncakes made with it make the Chinese locals unable to tell the difference between food made by machines and food made manually. The UH-206 stuffing machine is not only capable of making mooncakes, but also a variety of delicacies such as kubba(kibbeh),coxinha, falafel, maamoul, mooncakes, energy balls, pineapple cakes, date cookies, mochi ice cream, sesame balls, fish balls and meat balls, etc.
