Lava Custard Mooncake (Makes 12 mooncakes)
Learn how to make Lava Custard Mooncake with Philips Kitchen Appliances. Share with your friends and family!
Ingredients
- Lava Filling Ingredients:
- Salted egg yolk 1 pc
- Unsalted butter 15 g
- Gelatin powder 2g
- Custard powder 7g
- Icing sugar 25 g
- Whipping cream 30 g
- Chinese rose with a dash
- Water 30g
- Salt a pinch
- Custard Filling Ingredients:
- Salted egg yolks 3 pcs
- Cake flour 12g
- Unsalted butter 30g
- Custard power 12g
- Milk power 12g
- Egg wash 20g
- Coconut milk 65g
- Condensed milk 16g
- Chinese rose with a dash
- Sugar 35g
- Salt a pinch
- Pastry Ingredients:
- Cake flour 180g
- Unsalted butter 100g
- Custard power 12g
- Icing sugar 45g
- Egg wash 15g
- Coconut milk 10g
- Whipping cream 15g
Directions
- Method – Lava Filling:
- Melt the unsalted butter by placing it in a container set in hot water.
- Mix the custard power, salt and icing sugar. Then stir in the melted unsalted butter and whipping cream.
- Mix the gelatin powder with water, and melt the gelatin powder by placing it in a container set in hot water. Combine all of the above mixture.
- Add a dash of Chinese rose wine to the salted egg yolk, put into the Airfryer baking tray bake at 120°C for 10 minutes. Then take out the salted egg yolk and knead into a paste.
- Mix the salted egg yolk paste with the mixture and cook until all ingredients are melted.
- Sieve the lava filling.
- Divide the filling into 12 pieces each weighing 7g. Wrap the pieces separately in cling film and refrigerate for 2 hours until set.
- Using the cling film, knead each piece of filling into a ball. Refrigerate for at least 1 day.
- Method – Custard Filling:
- Add a dash of Chinese rose wine to the salted egg yolk, put into the Airfryer baking tray bake at 120°C for 10 minutes. Then take out the salted egg yolk and knead into a paste.
- Sieve the cake flour, custard powder and milk powder. Then, add sugar and salt.
- Mix the egg wash with the above powder mixture. Slowly stir in the coconut milk and condensed milk. Whisk until mixture is smooth and sieve.
- Place the mixture on a large plate and put the butter on top. Steam over water for 5 minutes until the butter is melted. Stir well with a spoon. Steam for another 5 minutes and stir. Repeat 3 times. Steam the mixture for a total of 20 minutes
- Add the steamed custard to the mashed salted egg then mix well, knead well by hand and cool down to room temperature then refrigerate until it hardens.
- Divide the filling into 12 equal portions each weighing about 17g. Put one piece of chilled lava filling into each piece of custard filling and knead into a ball. Refrigerate.
- Method – Pastry:
- Put the icing sugar and butter into a big bowl. Whisk well.
- Stir in the egg wash, whipping cream and coconut milk.
- Sieve the cake flour and custard powder into the mixture. Knead well. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Method – Lava Custard Mooncake:
- Take the pastry dough out of the refrigerator. Divide it into portions weighing 28g each and knead into a ball.
- Place the dough in a zip lock bag or under cling film. Then, flatten it into a circle with hand or rolling pin. The dough pieces should be thinner along the rim.
- Wrap one piece of custard filling in the dough.
- Sprinkle flour on the mooncake and mould. Knead into a cylinder and place it in the mould. Press lightly with hand.
- Turn the mould upside down. Press 10 times and remove the mooncake.
- Refrigerate the pressed mooncakes for 1 hour.
- Preheat the Airfryer at 200°C for 10 minutes. Spray water on the mooncakes before placing them on the baking tray. Bake at 200°C for 5 minutes
- Remove the baking tray along with the mooncakes. Brush on the egg wash. Let the mooncakes sit in room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Brush on egg wash again and bake at 200°C for 4 minutes.
- Remove the baking tray along with the mooncakes. Brush on the syrup. Put back into Airfryer and bake at 200°C for 1 minutes.
- Tips:
- Reheat the mooncakes in the Airfryer before consumption for better taste.
- Syrup can be made by mixing 1 part of granulated sugar with 1 part of hot water.
- Moon cake mold can be purchased at the baking shop
