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Method for making moon cakes

1. First, prepare the materials for making moon cakes. Today, Bian Xiao is going to teach big families to make moon cakes with red bean paste, so we must prepare red bean paste and other necessary materials, such as flour, sugar and peanut oil.

2. Take a bowl, then add 60g sugar, 100g peanut oil, 45g honey, 35g water and 3g baking soda, and stir well.

3. Then sieve 280 grams of flour into a bowl, stir evenly and knead it into a smooth dough, and stir for 3 hours.

4. Prepare another 30 grams of red bean paste and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

5. Divide the awakened dough into 20g each and wrap it with bean paste.

6. Sprinkle dry starch in the moon cake mold, and put the moon cake to press out the flower shape.

7. Preheat the electric baking pan for 5 minutes, put on the oil-absorbing paper, put on the moon cake, brush a layer of egg liquid, cover it for 5 minutes, turn it over and bake it for another 5 minutes until the cake crust becomes hard.