how to make cranberries coconut moon cake? now you can follow me this year to make this cranberries coconut moon cake in your own home, it’s very easy.
Cranberries Coconut Moon Cake
If you are eating moon cakes every Mid-Autumn Festival, then follow me this year to make this coconut and cranberry moon cake (蔓越莓椰蓉月饼, 蔓越莓椰蓉月餅, màn yuè méi yē róng yuè bǐng) in your own home. Because the coconut filling is sweet, the cranberry is sour and sweet, so the moon cake taste is not so sweet and sour. I think there will be some friends who like this moon cake like me and share it!
Make moon cakes at home. you should remember prepare some kitchen utensils and equipment in advance. If you don’t know what to prepare, look here.
Materials Used
Main Ingredients
| Inverted Sugar Syrup (110g) | Soda Ash Water (2g) | Peanut Oil (40g) | Flour (150g) |
| Milk Powder (8g) |
Moon Cake Filling Ingredients
| Butter (70g) | Organic Milk (40g) | Powdered sugar (45g) | Egg white ( 60g ) |
| Coconut (130g) | Cooked Glutinous Rice Flour (40g) | Dried Cranberries (50g) |
Brush Surface Ingredients
| Egg Yolk (1) | Water (8g) |
Making Coconut & Cranberry Moon Cake Steps
Coconut & Cranberry Moon Cake
Equipment
- Swiss Diamond Nonstick Fry Pan
- Toaster Oven
- Moon Cake Mould
- Kitchen Scale
- KitchenAid Hand Mixers
Materials
Moon Cake Main Ingredients
- 110 g Inverted Sugar Syrup
- 2 g Soda Ash Water 枧水，梘水，jiǎn shuǐ 。 Tips: you can mix the Soda Ash and water in a ratio of 1:3 instead.
- 40 g Peanut Oil
- 150 g Flour
- 8 g Milk Powder
Moon Cake Filling Ingredients
- 70 g Butter
- 40 g Organic Milk
- 45 g Powdered sugar
- 60 g Egg white
- 130 g Coconut (椰蓉, 椰蓉, yē róng)
- 40 g Cooked Glutinous Rice Flour You can fry Glutinous Rice Flour in a pan.
- 50 g Dried Cranberries
Brush Surface(Moon cake skin) Ingredients
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 8 g Water
Instructions
- Pour the inverted sugar syrup and soda ash water into the basin and Stir well with a KitchenAid Hand Mixers.
- Add peanut oil and continue to stir.
- Stir until completely mixed with the syrup.
- Add medium flour and milk powder.
- Mix well with a spatula, put on a disposable glove and squeeze it by hand to form a smooth dough.
- Wrap the plastic wrap and let it stand for 1 to 2 hours at room temperature.
- Add butter, milk and powdered sugar to a large bowl and heat in a Microwave for about 30 seconds until the butter melts.
- Stir well with a KitchenAid Hand Mixers beater.
- Add the coconut and mix well with a spatula.
- After cooling, add egg liquid and mix well.
- Continue to add cooked glutinous rice flour and mix well.
- Finally add the chopped dried cranberries and mix well.
- Mix well, then wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- After the cold storage, take it out and divide it into 15 parts, each of which is about 30 grams, and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- The mooncake dough was divided into 15 equal portions of about 20 grams each.
- Take a moon cake dough, put it in the palm of your hand, press the dough gently with the other hand, make a round cake, and put a mooncake filling.
- With the position of the tiger's mouth by hand, push the skin around the cake and push it to close the mouth.
- After closing, the two hands cut it into a smooth spherical shape.
- Wrap all the moon cakes in the mooncake filling.
- Take a small ball wrapped in a filling, smash it into a cylindrical shape, and take a little dry flour on the surface.
- Then load into the Moon Cake Mould.
- The inverted buckle is placed in the non-stick baking tray, and it is easy to press down with ease.
- Gently push out the mooncakes in the mold. After all the pressure is applied, spray the surface of the mooncakes without spraying too much. Just use a watering can to gently sweep it over, and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes after spraying.
- Into the preheated oven middle layer, baked at 200 degrees for 6 minutes.
- Take out the moon cake and apply a thin layer of egg yolk water to the surface of the moon cake (1 egg yolk plus 8 grams of water and mix well).
- Continue to the preheated oven middle layer, 180 degrees for 15 minutes, pay attention to the color condition, you can cover the tin foil after coloring.
- Delicious cranberry coconut moon cakes is OK.
- The freshly baked moon cake is a bit hard and dry. After it is cool, it is sealed for two or three days. After the oil is returned, it is more oily and delicious.
- The final Coconut & Cranberry Moon Cake
- The final Coconut & Cranberry Moon Cake
Make Coconut & Cranberry Moon Cake Tips
1. It is recommended to bring disposable gloves when handling, otherwise it will be very sticky.
2, glutinous rice flour is fried in my own pot, you can also buy ready-made cooked glutinous rice flour, if it is a novice, it is recommended to buy ready-made conversion syrup, so as not to affect the effect.
3, no dried cranberry can put raisins or other sweet and sour dried fruit.
4. If there is no drowning, use a 1:3 ratio of edible alkali and water.
5, the ratio of this cake and filling is 4:6, can be made for 15 months.
6, the baking temperature and time in the recipe is for reference only, please adjust according to your own oven conditions.
7, the quality of coconut and butter are different, if you feel that it is not easy to form a group when mixing stuffing, you can add a little egg liquid, you can become a group, it is not easy to add more.
I have always had a love for Chinese food and from time to time I attempt to make some myself. I can’t say it always comes out well though, I find the Chinese cuisine is a hard one to master. Your step by step guide will make it much more foolproof and I am excited to try to make these. I have always wanted to make moon cakes!
Whao! This is a plus to my bake recipes. This guide makes it become so easy to prepare. Although I haven’t taste a cranberries and coconut moon cake before, but I think I can try it out with this guide. This preparation will be a proper guide for people that want to make a delicious cranberries and coconut moon cakes.
Hi, I love Chinese food. I’m very lack to have a large Chinese store close to me where I constantly go shopping for my favourite products. However, this is the first time I come across to Chinese recipes. Your instructions and the process of how to make the moon cake with attractive pictures is very easy to follow. I’m so pleased I found your website. I will definitely be a constant visitor to it to get Chinese recipes for my cooking. By the way I’m not a Chinese person and I have no Chinese friends. I usually go to Chinese restaurants. Thanks a lot.
I am very glad to hear that you like Chinese food, you can collect my blog, we will become friends.
Hi, I love Chinese food. I’m very lack to have a large Chinese store close to me where I constantly go shopping for my favourite products. However, this is the first time I come across to Chinese recipes. Your instructions and the process of how to make the moon cake with attractive pictures is very easy to follow. I’m so pleased I found your website. I will definitely be a constant visitor to it to get Chinese recipes for my cooking. By the way I’m not a Chinese person and I have no Chinese friends. I usually go to Chinese restaurants. Thanks a lot.
This is a great alternative and addition to the recipe bank. It does add taste to the moon cakes.
The use of pictures in the lesson makes following easier and breaks the monotony of seeing words only, makes it interesting to follow.
Can one use an ordinary mold if they don’t the moon cake mold? Even baking without pressing in the mold, that is stage 21?
Hi, Patrick Chilanga
Of course, you can use an ordinary mold in your own home, you don’t care about these.
Hello Jess.Li,
I will write down all the excellent recipe you show to make the moon cake with coconut and blueberries. I have been a grower of blueberries for many years and I love to consume them have extraordinary properties.
I also like the taste that coconut gives foods. I have to congratulate you on the “clarity” in following the whole recipe step by step. My opinion of such a magnificent recipe will be the best 5 stars !!
Thank you very much. Claudio
I’m glad you like this, too.
Excellent tips you have given here and it is surely a worthy read for me. Being a lover of cooking and trying out various options with recipes, I found this very cool to know of. Though I’ve never come across this moon cakes but going by the ingredients, it should surely be a great cake to try out. I like that you have written out the recipes and I would surely give it a try. Thanks so much
Yes, you can try to make it, it’s very interesting, the process is very fun.
Your article has for sure opened my appetite. I like to try out new recipes so every time I see something interesting I always try to pass it to my wife and your look certainly interesting. They seem also very nice to make to offer to visitors also. And the design is really unique. Bookmarked this for future reference!!! Thank you for sharing it!
I am also glad that you like this topic. Thank you.
Hello Jess.li. Thanks for sharing this recipe – two of my favourite things – cranberries and coconut! I have not heard of Ash water before and don’t know where I would find it; the rest of the ingredients should be easy to locate. This recipe looks time consuming but your directions are very clear and detailed. These look very pretty and delicious. I have a friend who is Chinese. I will have to ask her if she has ever made these and share the recipe with her.
Hi, Mary Ann
Thank you for your attention to Soda Ash Water, because it is called in Chinese: 枧水, 枧水, jiǎn shuǐ, in the traditional Chinese method, it takes a lot of time to make jiǎn shuǐ, and I don’t know how to translate it. So I translated it to Soda Ash Water, and I went to the Chinese website to check out its ingredients. It contains ingredients called: Potassium carbonate, you can mix the (Soda Ash or Sodium Bicarbonate by Pure Organic Ingredients) And water in a ratio of 1:3 instead.
Jiǎn shuǐ There are no ready-made products available on Amazon to buy. In China, Jiǎn shuǐ is a common traditional ingredient for making cakes. It is boiled with grass ash and water for one day. The supernatant is taken to obtain an alkaline solution with a pH of 12.6. The main components are potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate.
This is an excellent guide on how to make cranberries and coconut moon cakes. It step by step guide is easy to understand and was carefully structured. I’m a lover of the Mid-Autumn Festival and I heard of these cakes are eaten often but I haven’t had the opportunity to eat it. This is a really great opportunity to try out this nice cranberries and coconut moon cake because the steps are clear and easy to follow.
Yes, this is the recipe and production steps I wrote for the Mid-Autumn Festival, how to make mooncakes. Interested in making trials at home.
Making moon cakes looks like so much fun honestly, my mum has actually spoken about it before but I told her it might be tiring. You giving this full on detail on how to go about it is very good. I think I should try it out myself at home. The recipe is very basic and they are things I can get. I’ll make sure to take note of all the steps you have. I will infact bookmark this post.
Thank you, I think your mother is like my mother, they all like to make some cakes.