Recipe for Traditional Mooncake

（应公主的要求，将传统烘皮月饼的做法翻译成英文，让她满足TKK王子的要求，嘻嘻！）
Little Princess, heres the recipe for u, quickly satisfy the stomach of ur Prince TKK :)

This recipe is for the making of 10 BIG mooncakes (170gm each).

Ingredients:
Hong Kong Flour 300gm
Sugar Refiner Syrup or Golden Syrup 160g
Alkaline Water 1/2 tsp
Corn Oil 60gm
Sunflower/Watermelon Seeds 100gm
Water 10gm (when needed)
Salted Egg Yolk 10
Lotus Paste 1kg

Method:
(1) Mix HK Flour, Sugar Syrup, Corn Oil and Alkaline water well (refer to my previous entry for photo, HK Flour is poured into "donut"-like). The dough should be soft (like ear). Leave it aside to rest for at least 30mins.

(2) While waiting for the dough to be ready, make use of the time to add watermelon seeds into your Lotus paste, then divide the paste into small portion. Each portion should weigh 100gm, and wrap salted egg yolk into it individually.

Note: Each salted egg yolk is abt 20g, plus ur lotus paste, each filling shd carry the weight of 120gm. If you dont take salted egg yolk, your lotus paste should be 120gm each. And this is provided your mould size is for 170g mooncake. Otherwise, you need to change the weightage of both ur mooncake skin and fillings.

(3) When your dough has "rested enuff" ( ^_^ ), divide it into small portion of 50gm each, and this is the skin. Change its weight accordingly if your mould volume is not 170gm. Wrap the fillings (Method #2) inside the skin, shape into a ball, press into the mould. Hit once at the angle of 90 degree, hit once at the angle of 270 degree. Face the mould down, place ur palm below the mooncake and hit at its "forehead", if u forget to place ur palm below the mooncake, u will have one mooncake less and have to do thorough cleaning for your floor :p

(4) Apply thin oil on ur baking tray, lay your mooncake on it, send into heated oven and bake 180C for 5 mins. After 5 mins, take ur tray out and apply egg yolk (to beautify it) on ur mooncakes smilling faces, put them back to oven for another 25 minutes of HOT Spa. Once ready, remove immediately from the tray to another holder (before you cant remove it...).

(5) Get ur Prince TKK to wait for another 3 days. After 3 days, ur Prince has "tang" very "ku", and ur mooncakes can be served. Mooncake dont taste nice on first day, it could be hard like stone. The oil will slowly soften ur mooncake in 3 days. It is best to be consumed after 3 days and within one month.