Egg Yolk Puff
Author: Yan L.
Level: 5
Instructor: Sayuri N.
Photo Credit: xb100 / 123RF Stock Photo
Article ID: 1772 [Recipes- Summer 2020]
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
- 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.
- Switch to the dough hook and knead the dough at medium speed for about 7 minutes, until it’s smooth and elastic.
- Divide the dough into 24 small balls
Prepare Paste B
- Put the cake flour and butter into the mixer bowl and paddle, until uniformity.
- Divide the dough into 24 small balls.
Prepare Filling C
- Preheat the oven to 380 degrees F.
- Bake the salted duck egg yolk 10 minutes.
- Spray some high-level wine on them.
- Divide the Red bean paste into 24 small balls.
- Enfold the salted egg with red bean paste, totally 24 balls.
Steps
- Roll the paste A small ball to a round sheet
- Enfold paste B with sheet A into a ball.
- Do step 1 and step 2 again and again, totally 24 times.
- Roll and fold four times in succession, then roll into a round sheet.
- Enfold filling c with round sheet into a ball.
- Do step 3 and step 4 again and again, totally 24 times.
- Brush some egg yolk on the 24 balls, decorate some sesame.
- Preheat the oven to 380 degrees F.
- Bake 20 minutes.