How to make Datong mixed sugar mooncakes

We are a group of people who keep shouting about losing weight and looking for delicious food on the streets. Of course, faced with the temptation of delicious food, few people have the endurance to resist. I’d like to introduce to you a Datong mixed sugar mooncake, which you can make at home in the future.

1. Prepare 150 grams of brown sugar

2.1212121 Turn on the heat, stir with a spoon while cooking, cook until the brown sugar is dissolved and the amount of water is half of the original, turn off the heat, and set aside to cool until the brown sugar water stops steaming

3.2121212 Pour a small bowl of cold water into the pot and add the prepared brown sugar

4. Prepare 150 grams of sesame oil (Sesame oil is a specialty of Shanxi, and can be replaced with other cooking oils, but the mooncakes made with sesame oil will not be as fragrant as those made with sesame oil) and pour it into the wok.

5. Cook over low heat until the oil smells good, bubbles appear on the surface, ripples appear, and a little smoke comes out. Turn off the heat and set aside until the oil cools down.

6. Prepare 500 grams of wheat flour and put it in the dough bowl. Use your hands to push the flour to one side of the bowl.

7. Heat and cool sesame oil or cooking oil and pour it on the other side of the mixing bowl.

8. Pour the cooked brown sugar water into sesame oil or cooking oil

9. Add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda or edible alkali

10.1 Use your hands to spread the flour into the cooking oil and water

11.2 Use a spoon to mix the brown sugar water, sesame oil or cooking oil, baking soda or edible alkali evenly, so that the oil and water are fully mixed and dissolved, and the baking soda is dissolved in the oil and water.

12. Stir with your hands while scraping to make the flour absorb oil and moisture to form flocculent dough

13.Put the floc-like dough on the chopping board and knead it repeatedly with your hands

14.1 Cover the dough with a piece of plastic wrap and set aside to sugar for 10 minutes

15.2 Knead until the dough is smooth

16. The surface of the dough with good sugar will be smoother

17. Knead the sugar-coated dough into a long cylindrical dough with your hands

18. Use your hands to pinch the dough into 4 equal-sized dough pieces.

19. Take one of the dough pieces and place it on the remaining four fingers of your left hand except the thumb.

20. Press the thumb of your left hand on the center of the dough, and pinch the thumb and other four fingers of your right hand around the dough in a ring. Hold the dough with your right hand and rotate it with your left hand as the displacement.

21. With the cooperation of both hands, make the dough into a smooth dough with a slightly raised top.

22. Press down the raised area with the palm of your hand

23. Pat it into a flat round shape

24. According to the above method, pat all the dough into flat round dough.

25. Prepare some white sesame seeds on the plate

26. Place the smooth side of the flat round dough on the sesame seeds and press it gently with your hands.

27. Make sure all the oblate dough pieces are evenly coated with white sesame seeds.

28. This is the finished mixed sugar mooncake dough

29. Place a layer of tin foil on the bottom of the baking tray, place the prepared mooncakes on the tin foil, preheat the oven to 200 degrees for 5 minutes, and place the baking tray on the upper middle layer of the oven.

30. Bake for about 20 minutes until the mooncakes are fragrant, then continue baking for 10 minutes.

The temptation of delicious food can only be understood by making it yourself to realize its true value. As for everyone, after understanding the recipe of Datong mixed sugar mooncake, you should really try to make it yourself.