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Winter 2015

Recipes

egg yolk puff and tea on bamboo plate

The egg yolk puff is a traditional dessert from the east of China and popular all over China. The taste is salty and sweet. The outside is crisp and inside is soft.

Ingredients

Paste A

  • All-purpose flour 350g
  • general sugar 60g
  • butter 130g
  • water 180ml

Paste B

  • Cake flour 300g
  • Butter 160g

Filling C

  • Red bean paste 720g
  • Salted duck egg 24

Instructions

Prepare Paste A

  1. Put the all-purpose flour, sugar, butter and water into a stand mixer bowl, then mix them with the beater paddle, until everything comes together in a rough of dough.
  2. Switch to the dough hook and knead the dough at medium speed for about 7 minutes, until it’s smooth and elastic.
  3. Divide the dough into 24 small balls

Prepare Paste B

  1. Put the cake flour and butter into the mixer bowl and paddle, until uniformity.
  2. Divide the dough into 24 small balls.

Prepare Filling C

  1. Preheat the oven to 380 degrees F.
  2. Bake the salted duck egg yolk 10 minutes.
  3. Spray some high-level wine on them.
  4. Divide the Red bean paste into 24 small balls.
  5. Enfold the salted egg with red bean paste, totally 24 balls.

Steps

  1. Roll the paste A small ball to a round sheet
  2. Enfold paste B with sheet A into a ball.
  3. Do step 1 and step 2 again and again, totally 24 times.
  4. Roll and fold four times in succession, then roll into a round sheet.
  5. Enfold filling c with round sheet into a ball.
  6. Do step 3 and step 4 again and again, totally 24 times.
  7. Brush some egg yolk on the 24 balls, decorate some sesame.
  8. Preheat the oven to 380 degrees F.
  9. Bake 20 minutes.