How to use the moon cake mold

Home-made moon cake of course less molds, the following I collected the use of moon cake molds as well as a small trick homemade molds, hurry to see it.

First, the use of moon cake mold

1. Wooden moon cake molds are usually hand-held inverted. That is to say, to do a good job in advance of the Mid-Autumn Mooncake embryo first inverted buckle in the mold, and then the force molding and then buckle out of the mold. When inverting the mooncake, the force should be even, and the mooncake can be taken out by positively snapping it on the opposite side. The disadvantage is that the requirements of the pie crust is higher, the operation method is also slightly cumbersome, and wooden moon cake molds because of the different materials, after using a period of time is likely to crack and so on.

2. The press type mooncake mold is a very popular homemade mooncake tool in recent years. It consists of a press and a geometrically shaped mold piece, and is very easy to use. You just need to press the press type moon cake mold against the moon cake gently, the moon cake embryo can enter into the moon cake mold, and then press hard to form.

And because the carving mold piece is independent can be freely replaced, because also can get more patterns and flower shape. Although the press type moon cake mold is easy to use, but also has its own disadvantages. Because the mold is deeper, if the thickness of the moon cake is not accurately grasped, the bottom of the cake will leave a certain distance from the outer mouth, so you need to reach in and flatten the bottom.

In addition, when using the press type mooncake mold, pay attention to whether the dry powder on the carved mold piece is sufficient, otherwise it is easy to appear mooncake with the mold piece together with the situation of sticking down.

3. The old-fashioned mooncake mold is a bottle-shaped wooden board, in the center part of the hand-carved mooncake reverse pattern and text. When used in the mold first sprinkle some flour, and then wrapped with flour filling evenly pressed by hand into the mold (flour filling wrapped like a large dumpling), the cake mold reversed on the desktop a knock a mooncake came out.

Second, the family mooncake mold

Plastic mooncake mold is also a common household. Plastic mooncake molds are used in the same way as wooden molds.

Pros: Plastic is more lightweight and less costly, so you can buy more styles for less money.

Disadvantages: Plastic is notoriously difficult to control, and it's hard to be sure that some of the chemicals in the plastic won't mix with the mooncakes and cause health problems.

Third, a small trick homemade mooncake mold

1. Homemade mooncakes, usually use the home wood pieces, although there is no tonal wood and other harder a little bit of wood, but the home of the mooncake templates, it can be completely replaced by the general wood pieces.

2. Scribe and drill holes.

3. The middle of the hole should be sawed with a wire saw. This way the outer edge of the mooncake mold is considered done.

4. Of course, this is not enough to be rough, the next step is to use a grinding wheel or sandpaper sanding.

5. Finally, the basic homemade mooncake mold is ready. Very simple operation method, but need to pay attention to the details, because it is edible molds, so be sure to pay attention to the health of the material hurry, and most importantly, the hand is also clever.