Making Mooncakes

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here, it is rare for the family to get together, and on this happy day, of course, we should eat mooncakes made by ourselves! The following is the composition of making moon cakes that I have organized for you, I hope it will be useful to you.

Making mooncakes I

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, my whole family has eaten mooncakes, but no one knows how to make mooncakes, so my mother asked me to learn how to make mooncakes.

On Saturday morning, my mom took me to learn how to make mooncakes at the pizza store at 142 Pinghai Street.

There were more than twenty little students making mooncakes together, all elementary school students, from first grade to sixth grade, boys and girls too.

There was a female teacher who took us to learn how to make mooncakes, and she was very short, always circling the room and talking all the time.

Before making mooncakes the teacher made us play games and sing English songs.

Then the teacher introduced the mooncake master. The mooncake master has a round head and a fat belly, and he is a man. Along with the mooncake master came the crust and the filling. The crust is like a ball, is yellow, filling is more round, there are strawberry filling, is red; there are bean paste filling, is black; there are pineapple filling, is golden; there are lotus content filling, is yellow. They are neatly arranged on 4 plates.

Mooncake master first 1 dough evenly divided into 4 parts, make round, flatten, put the filling, rolled into the mooncake crust, to the invisible filling, and then put the mooncake into the mold pressure, knocked a few times out of the mooncake, it becomes a patterned raw mooncake. Then bake the raw mooncake and eat it.

The mooncake master did it once, and I knew how to do it. It was time to start making the mooncakes, and we were each given 4 fillings, 1 dough, and 2 molders. I also first 1 dough evenly divided into 4 parts, make round, flatten, put the filling in, wrapped, and then put into the mold, knocked a few times out, it becomes a raw moon cake.

I did it very quickly, and I felt that my mooncakes tasted especially good.

Making Mooncakes II

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion for all families. I'm sure my father will be back. I've been waiting and waiting, and I'm looking forward to it! But what I got was a phone call from my dad: "Baby, my dad is too busy to come back." I was very frustrated.

My expression, mom, see my eyes, only to see her mysteriously close to my ear: "Baby, do not be angry, mom to take you to Auntie Xiaoya's home, a special holiday." I then turned sad to happy, followed my mom joyfully to the aunt's house.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw a lively scene. Aunties around a table busy, there are mixing batter, there are rolling dough, and holding the model extrusion, the table has been lined with a variety of semi-finished cakes. They were preparing to make mooncakes themselves! I couldn't contain my joy, so I flew into my aunt's house like a bird and quickly joined them.

To start making the mooncakes, my mom gave me a ball of pliable but strong dough that she had mixed according to the proportions. At first, I was like a fly on the wall, no way to start, the dough in my hands naughty fall "fight". My mom taught me to dip a few drops of oil on the pattern of the model, then put the dough into the model, then squeeze it with my forefinger in the shape of the flower, then spread a layer of filling, and finally cover it with a layer of dough. After another squeeze, ha! Done. It was a little ugly and unevenly shaped, but I wasn't discouraged. After practicing a few times, a lifelike mooncake appeared. Auntie put the mooncakes into the pot, and a few minutes later, a pot of fragrant mooncakes came out of the pot.

"The full moon has appeared!" I don't know who shouted, we ran out of the door at the sound, only to see a round golden moon hanging high in the night sky, like a jade disk. The bright moonlight sprinkled down on the earth, soft as a light veil, weaving in and out of the thin clouds. While eating the homemade, steaming hot, crispy and crunchy mooncakes and enjoying the charming moonlight, I couldn't help but think of Wang Wei's poem, "Being alone in a foreign land is a foreigner, and I miss my family twice as much at every festive season!" "Dad, do you miss me in another country?"

Making Mooncakes III

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival in China. On this day, people eat mooncakes, enjoy the moon, and drink chrysanthemum tea ......

Early in the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are mooncake vendors on the street. The mooncake vendors were smiling and soliciting business, some yelling, "Hey, big man, buy my chant." "What ah, my mooncake fresh and cheap ......", another retorted. A festive atmosphere.

I saw my mom still not buy moon cakes, anxious: "Mom, why not buy?" Mom smiled mysteriously, "Baby, let's make our own moon cakes, okay?" "Wow, yeah!" I was so happy that I jumped three feet high, after all, the moon cake made by myself is more fragrant!

In the afternoon, my father bought the fillings to make moon cakes, haha, there are yellow corn flour, there are all kinds of fillings, there is also cocoa powder ...... heh, a variety of things na!

Mom washed her hands, began to live yellow surface, dad on the side of the study of the production methods of moon cakes, I was beside the "help", wow, so many fillings, ah, strawberry, pineapple, orange ...... colorful, both attractive and good-looking, but also issued a A fruity flavor, "Tick!" Oh, I'm sorry, I drooled ...... see parents are busy with each other, no one pay attention to me, I "stole" a small piece of apple filling slipped to the balcony, ruthless bite ...... yuck! What flavor? It's not sweet or bitter! I fled to the bathroom and rinsed my mouth out.

In the blink of an eye, three hours have passed, and mom and dad have baked the fragrant moon cakes.

In the evening, we enjoyed the moonlight and the secret mooncakes made by the Cai family. Chang'e in the moon palace was also attracted by my family's mooncakes, turned into a wisp of osmanthus fragrance accompanied by the breeze came to my home window ......

Making mooncakes four

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother bought my favorite fruit-filled mooncakes, I hurriedly that a piece of food, really fragrant ah, eating, I remembered last year's today.

After dinner, our family on the balcony, sitting at the round table, the table set mooncakes and all kinds of fruit, *** with the moon. I was the first to pick up a piece of fruit-filled mooncake to eat, when my brother, also want fruit. Because my brother and I love to eat this filling, but my brother did not find. Mom said: "I bought two pieces of fruit-filled mooncakes, one for each of you, how could there be none? At that moment my heart beat faster, bad, to reveal. It turned out that mom the first day to buy back the moon cakes, I can not help but open the exquisite small box, an aroma over, look carefully, this piece of moon cake oily, in the top of the raised cloud scroll flower pattern, simply too beautiful, like a thin layer of clouds floating in the round moon below." Looking at the constant temptation of the scent, I gave it a bite without blocking it. At this time my brother has understood, hastily said: "I do not want to eat fruit filling, eat a piece of five-kernel is also very good." In fact, my brother is usually very concerned about me, especially when learning to encounter problems, my brother always patiently teach me and guide me. Thinking of this I said: "This piece of moon cake should be yours," my brother said I don't want anything, and finally returned to me.

Today, I eat moon cakes thinking about my brother, because my brother works in Shanghai this year did not come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I looked at the big and round moon, remembered the mythological story that the moon has a wide cold Palace, lived Chang'e sister, she likes to help the earth to do things that can not be done, today, Chang'e sister can help me to send this piece of fruit mooncake to the hands of my brother? At the same time bring me a debt of gratitude and thoughts.

mooncake five

To eat mooncakes, I love to eat my grandma's mooncakes. Every year at the Mid-Autumn Festival, my grandma would make some homemade mooncakes and distribute them to her relatives and neighbors, and more than half a month in advance, my grandma would start to busy herself.

When I went to my grandma's house on Sunday, I was just in time for her to prepare the mooncakes. I saw my grandma take out peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts and other fillings from the refrigerator in order. Grandma first put these fillings in a container, gently mashed with a wooden flogger, poured them into a small pot, then poured in sesame seeds, raisins, diced dried fruits, brown sugar, and stirred them well, and the mooncake fillings were quickly mixed up under grandma's dexterous hands, just like magic. Next, grandma used cooking oil, eggs and sugar to make the dough. The mooncake molds used by the grandmother are in the shape of carp. I heard from the grandmother that the molds were carved by the grandfather himself, and they are older than the mother.

Grandma asked me to help her roll the dough into long strips, then cut it into small cylinders and flatten them. She took one of the flattened cylinders, rolled it into a pancake shape, filled it with mooncake filling, pinched the mouth, then put it into the mooncake mold, pressed it down hard, and then inverted it on the board, and a mooncake in the shape of a carp was formed! When it's all done, put them in the oven and bake them for about 25 minutes or so, and the smell of mooncakes will be wafting through the house.

I couldn't wait to pick one up and take a bite, ah, the crust is crispy, the nuts are crunchy, the sweetness is wrapped in the flavor of sesame seeds, delicious beyond compare.

I told my grandma, with apples, bananas, kiwi fruit jam, so you can make fruit-filled mooncakes, my grandma adopted my suggestion, eating the outside of the crispy, soft fruit-filled mooncakes, my grandma praised me for my cleverness and creativity.

mooncake six

My after-school life added fun to my childhood, that scene is unforgettable, among them, the most unforgettable or in the Mid-Autumn Festival, to go to the world, such as the mooncake making scene.

I remember that day, my mother and I came to the place to make mooncakes, a young aunt warmly received us, she gave us each a small pink board, special mooncake crust, and golden cooked egg yolks and strange mold. I picked up the mold and looked at it for a long time, wondering: what is this thing? "What is this thing? It looks so strange. On top was an oval shape about four or five millimeters thick, attached to a spring, and underneath the spring was a square . I've never seen anything like it.

At this point, Auntie said, "Now let's start making mooncakes." I had to stop thinking about it and started making them. I kneaded the dough to make it round and soft. After kneading, I gently placed the crust in the center of a small board, pressed it hard with my palm to flatten it, carefully uncovered it bit by bit with my right hand, picked it up and placed it flat on my palm. Then I pinched up an egg yolk and placed it in the center of the crust, and it lay comfortably on top as if it was basking in the sun. Then, I put the crust layer by layer into the bread, and vigorously kneaded, the yolk wrapped tightly, a bulging ball appeared.

Until now, I did not know the answer about that mold. It turns out that the pattern on the mooncake is made with the mold. It seems to be quite useful! The next step is for the mold to take over! First, we use the mold to hold the ball, then we press the oval shape with our hands, and the beautiful little mooncake is ready! But because it took a long time to bake, I couldn't eat the mooncake I made. But I was still very happy.

Yes, a small mooncake, it allows me to learn a skill, but also brings endless fun to my after-school life.

I was very happy to participate in a competition to make mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I wanted to do it quickly.

The mooncake-making contest began, and each of us put a few things on the table: a few big round balls with bean paste and egg yolk filling, peach filling, and lotus seed paste filling, as well as three tiny balls of dough and some molds. The master said, "First take this tiny, round thing, this is the dough, knead it round, then flatten it, then wrap it with the traps, put it into the mold and press it hard, then it's done." I was thinking it was too easy, isn't it very similar to making dumplings? I began to wrap the bean paste moon cake, I rolled the skin round, and then pressed, pressed and flattened and thin, suddenly the skin broke, sticking to the hand; the second time, I coated my hands with a layer of flour, the result is that the skin is still broken; the third time, I was careful to flatten the skin, and then put the bean paste filling on top of it, but can only wrap the big half, I have no choice but to pull the skin a little bit, the result is that there is still some place! I did not get it, so I thought of a way to press the filling in, and then close the crust, finally wrapped up, and put it into the mold and pressed, ah, a little bit of the crust out of the bottom! I quickly stopped pressing, and then slowly took it out! I even took out the mold, what should I do? I carefully removed the mold, but it was still intact. The first mooncake was a success!

For the second one, I wrapped the mooncake with lotus seed paste. The color of the lotus seed paste is too similar to the crust, so that I will take the lotus seed paste filling as the crust, and then take the crust as the lotus seed paste filling. Luckily, there is always some difference between the crust and the lotus seed paste filling, so I tinkered with it, and finally I couldn't see the lotus seed paste filling on the crust anymore. I put it into the mold and pressed hard, the lotus seed paste mooncake fell out, this looks more beautiful, almost exactly the same as in the mall.

The third time, I wrapped a peach mooncake, and I did it very carefully, slowly wrapping it up, not stopping even if there was a small gap. Finally, the package is perfect, but I was pressing, there was an accident: mom suddenly yelled, said: "Do not press too hard, be careful to press out again!" As a result, I didn't press too hard, the result is a fat moon cake. The master took a look at my mooncake and said, "The lotus seed paste is well made, and the bean paste is also good, it's the peach that's a bit worse." I regretted it, and blamed my mom for screaming.

Later, after the mooncake test was cooked, the teacher told us to recognize our mooncakes. I immediately recognized my mooncake, who asked me to make a "unique" "fat" mooncake? It must be this row, I said, and the teacher said, "That's right!" I was so happy. At the end of the day, the chef awarded the mooncakes made by the 23 participants, and the best one was No. 8, who made the fastest and best mooncake, and the teacher said that she deserved the award.

It's a great feeling to eat your own mooncakes! The Mid-Autumn Mooncake Competition was really fun, and I hope it will be held again next year, and I will come back next year!