Mini Custard Moon Cake

 
Ingredients of Pastry :
Plain Flour 168g Syrup 126g
Oil 42g Diluted Alkaline Solution 1/2tsp

 
Filling :
Custard some Salted Egg Yolk some

 
Ingredients of Custard Filling:
Sugar 600g Plain Flour 300g
Custard Powder 80g Evaporated Milk 200ml
Condensed Milk 200ml Milk 500ml
Egg 5 Butter 227g

 
To Make Custard Filling :
1. Sift the flour and dissolve the butter.
2. In a bowl, whisky together all the remaining ingredients, and steam on 180oC for 10 to 15 mins.
3. Transfer to a bowl, cover and cool.  Stir well.

 
Ingredients of Syrup :
Sugar 224g Water 140ml
Lemon 2 slices

To Make Syrup :
1. Mix all the ingredients well and simmer for about 1 hour.  Test by putting a drop of syrup into a bowl of cold water, if it dissolve then you should keep simmer otherwise it would looks like a dewdrop.  Keep in cool place after cook for 2 weeks .

Method :
1. Sift the flour onto a table.  Make a well in the centre and add the syrup, oil and diluted alkaline solution, mix well.  Knead to form a dough, cover with a moisture towel  and set aside for 2 hours.
2. Divide the dough into small equal portions and roll out into thin pastry.  Spoonful some filling onto the pastry and seal.  Dust some flour on the moon cake tin, put in the dumpling and turn it out (recommended ratio of pastry and filling is 1/2 oz pastry and 1 1/4 filling)
3. Place the moon cakes onto a baking pan lined with foil,  sprinkle some water on top of the moon cakes and bake over 200oC for 5 mins.  Take the moon cakes out,  rub the top with some beaten egg and bake over 200oC for another 5 mins.  Take the moon cakes out again, rub the top with some beaten egg and bake over 200oC for another 5 mins.

Gist :
1. Preheat oven for 15 mins.
2. Add few drops of oil into the egg (recommend to use egg yolk only) for rubbing the top of moon cakes.
3. Let the moon cakes stand for 1 to 2 days for delicacy. 
4. You can use instant syrup and filling for time consuming