How to make a cute little pig shaped moon cake for kids

After a long time of development, moon cakes are increasingly diverse in both shape and taste. If you still have no plans for this Mid-Autumn Festival, let’s learn how to make a cute little pig-shaped moon cake to surprise your baby!

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How to make baked moon cake in the shape of a pig

Prepare
30 Minutes Processing
80 Minutes For
1-2 people eat

Ingredients for the pig-shaped baked moon cake

• 100g flour
• 2 chicken eggs
• 10g peanut butter
• 60g green beans with skin, a few black beans
• Sugar, salt, lemon juice

Ingredients for the pig-shaped baked moon cake

Tips for choosing good eggs: To choose fresh and clean chicken eggs, you should pay attention to the eggshell, good eggs usually have an outer shell without black spots or cracks and have a dark color. When touching fresh eggs, they are slightly rough and rough. In contrast, eggs that have been left for a long time, the shell is very smooth.

How to make a pig-shaped baked moon cake

Step 1Cooking sugar water

You put in the pot 100g white sugar and 100ml water , cook with medium heat until the sugar water turns yellow. Add 200ml water and 400g sugar , continue to boil. When the sugar is completely dissolved, lower the heat and cook for 15 minutes, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, continue to cook for 15 minutes , then turn off the heat.

After the sugar water is cooked, you let it cool, let it cool overnight, put it in a sealed jar and store it for at least 3 days before you can use it .

Cooking sugar water

Step 2Make cake dough

You cough into a bowl of 70g sugar water, 1 egg yolk and 10g peanut butter, stir until the mixture dissolves. You use a sieve to sift 100g of flour into a bowl, mix well, add 7ml of cooking oil , continue kneading until the dough is very smooth. After kneading the dough, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes .

Make cake dough

Step 3Making the cake

Soak green beans with skin for 2 to 3 hours in warm water. After soaking, you wash the green beans and put them in a pot to boil with 300ml of water until the beans are soft.

Take the cooked beans to a blender, add half a teaspoon of salt and 30g of sugar , grind until the beans are very smooth, you can also use a spoon to blend the beans if you don’t have a machine.

You put the pureed beans in a pan, slug the beans on low heat. You add 7ml of cooking oil and slug until the beans are very thick and smooth, then turn off the heat. After the bean paste has cooled, you roll it into equal balls.

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Making the cake

Step 4Molded cake

After the dough rests, divide the dough into the number of parts corresponding to the cake multiplier . You roll the dough, roll it thin and then put the filling in the middle, grab the cake dough to cover the filling, roll it into a round ball, do the same until the ingredients are gone.

Wrapping the cake

Then, you use black beans to make piglets’ eyes , shape the triangle dough to make pig ears, round dough for nose, and use skewer to press on the dough to make ear tendons, eyelashes and nostrils for piglets. You can also decorate with bows and flowers if you like.

Shape the cake

Step 3Bake

Preheat the oven before baking. You line the baking tray with a sheet of parchment paper, place the molded pork on the tray and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 5 to 6 minutes .

You put in a cup of 1 egg yolk and 20ml of water , beat until dissolved. After the cake has baked for 5 or 6 minutes, take it out and spread it with a layer of water, let it cool for 5 minutes and then continue to spread a layer of egg.

You put the cake back in the oven and bake for another 5 or 6 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius . Repeat the baking and spreading process 3 times and the cake is complete.

Spread the egg yolk on the cake

Step 4Finished product

After ripening, mooncakes have an attractive dark yellow color, sweet aroma, lovely piglet shape , very popular with children. The sponge cake with the filling of Bui Bui cake will definitely score points in the hearts of the eaters.

Finished product

How to make a moon cake in the shape of a pig

Prepare
30 Minutes Processing
50 Minutes For
6 people

Ingredients for making flexible pig-shaped mooncakes

The crust part

• 70g cooked glutinous rice flour to make sticky rice cakes
• 30g finely ground sugar
• 12g lard (or 10-12g peanut/coconut oil)
• 100ml water

Cake filling

• 100g lotus seeds
• 2g alkaline alkaline water
• 60g sugar
• 50g peanut oil
• 10g malt
• The water is enough to cover the lotus in the pot
• 10g melon seeds (roasted until golden brown)

Ingredients for making flexible pig-shaped mooncakes

How to make a moon cake in the shape of a pig

Step 1Preliminary processing of lotus seeds

You boil water and then add 2g alkaline alkaline water and 100g washed lotus seeds, with the skin intact for 10 minutes.

Turn off the heat and put the pot down. Peel the lotus seeds by rubbing them under running water. Remove the lotus head and heart. Put the lotus seeds back in the pot and cover the lotus with water. Boil until lotus is soft and then turn off the heat.

Take out the lotus seeds to cool, then put them in a blender and puree.

Preliminary processing of lotus seeds

Step 2Human slugs

Heat the pan first, then add 1 tablespoon of peanut oil, heat it on low heat, add 20g of sugar and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved and turns golden.

Next, you add ground lotus seeds and the remaining sugar little by little, season to taste and continue to stir until the dough is slightly dry . Slowly add oil and stir until mixture becomes thick and homogeneous.

Finally, add in the mixture 10g of malt and stir constantly. When the lotus mixture begins to no longer stick to the sides of the pan, take it out on a plate and let it cool. When the mixture has cooled , add the roasted melon seeds, mix well and divide into 12 equal parts.

Human slugs

Step 3Mix the crust dough

Put the rice flour in a separate bowl.

In a small pot, add 100ml of water with 30g of powdered sugar and 12g of lamb fat. Bring to a boil until the fat is melted, stirring with a whisk. If you don’t have lard, boil water with sugar until the sugar dissolves, wait for it to cool down, and then add peanut or coconut oil.

Next , pour the cooked sugar-water mixture into the cake flour bowl and then use a rubber spatula to mix the mixture into a soft dough ball, let it cool.

Knead the dough with your hands until soft. You can add more rice flour if the dough is too sticky.

Mix the crust dough

Step 4Shaping

Divide the dough into 3 parts and add a little food coloring (pink, green, yellow) to each part , knead until smooth again.

Divide each part of the pigment into about 4 small balls (about 14-15g each), roll it thinly and wrap it around the lotus filling, round the dough ball into a ball shape.

Use a needle and small tweezers to shape a piglet for the dough.

Take roasted black sesame seeds for eyes.

Shaping

Step 5Finished product

This cute and funny piggy-shaped moon cake will be more delicious after leaving it in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. The fragrant plastic cake with funny shapes will surely make the children love it.

Finished products of moon cake in the shape of a pig

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So, Bach Hoa Xanh has finished showing how to make a beautiful little pig-shaped moon cake for your baby. Now it’s your turn to try this cake. Good luck!

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