How to make beautiful and simple thousand-layer rainbow moon cake at home

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In Vietnam, the mid-autumn festival is a special occasion with traditional cakes such as mooncakes and sticky rice cakes. And recently, rainbow mooncakes originating from Japan have been introduced to our country and attracted a lot of attention because of its eye-catching colors and delicious taste.

Thousand-layer mooncake is a funny name that implies a mooncake with many layers of cakes arranged in a row but less than 1000 layers. The origin of this mooncake originates from Chaozhou, China – TeoChew is also known as TeoChew mooncake. The cake in the article is a thousand-layered Japanese mooncake.

Prepare
60 Minutes Processing
120 minutes For
3-4 people

Reference: How to make delicious and nutritious bird’s nest moon cake

Ingredients for a thousand layers of rainbow mooncakes

• 150g green beans
• 15g pandan leaves
• 15g glutinous rice flour
• 50g sunflower/coconut oil
• 330g all-purpose flour
• 150g peanut butter
• 28g powdered sugar
• 4 food colors of your choice
• 1 pinch of salt
• Tools: Food wrap, sieve, rolling pin,…

Hot Tip: You can find powdered sugar, food coloring, and a rolling pin at your grocery store or large supermarket.

Ingredients for making rainbow mooncakes

Reference: How to make mooncakes filled with green beans and salted eggs simple at home

How to make a thousand-layer rainbow moon cake

Step 1Cook green beans

First, you soak 150g green beans with water for about 4 hours to expand the beans. After that, you wash and cook the beans.

You put the pot on the stove and pour in 150g of green beans and 500ml of water to boil. When the water boils for 1 minute, turn off the stove, drain the old water and replace it with 500ml of new water so that the beans do not stink and are clean.

Then, you continue to cook the beans, until the water boils, cover and reduce the heat. Cook for about 20 minutes until the beans are soft.

Cook green beans to make the filling

Step 2Cake slugs

You put in a blender 1 5g of chopped pandan leaves and 80ml of cold water. After grinding, you pass through a thin cloth to filter the pandan leaf juice . Next, add 15g of glutinous rice flour, 6ml of sugar and a little salt and mix well.

With the soft cooked green beans, you also put them in a blender.

Next, you put the pan on the stove, add the green beans, pandan leaf mixture and 50g of cooking oil. You proceed to slug the mung bean paste by mixing with your hands for about 40 minutes, then the mixture thickens and doesn’t stick to the spoon.

Then, you add a little vanilla to create a scent (if you like), mix well for another 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat. Cover the top with cling film so the filling doesn’t dry out while you make the crust.

Good tip:
– You should not use hot water to grind with pandan leaves because it will discolor.
– You should filter the pureed green beans and pandan leaves through a sieve when you put them on the stove to make the cake more smooth.

Pineapple green bean slug

Step 3Make dry dough

You put 170g of flour in a bowl with 28g of powdered sugar, 60g of unsalted butter and a little salt. Mix well and add 80ml of water.

You knead until the dough is very smooth, then wrap it with plastic wrap, let the dough rest for 15 minutes. Then divide the dough into equal parts.

Pro tip: You need to knead the dough very quickly so that the butter doesn’t melt.

Mix the dry dough for the cake

Step 4Make the oil dough part

You mix 160g flour and 90g unsalted butter, until the mixture forms a mass, add 5ml of cooking oil. You continue to knead until the dough forms a flexible mass.

Then, you divide the dough into 4 equal parts and then add food coloring . Finally, cover with cling film and let the dough rest for 15 minutes.

Make the color oil dough for the cake

Step 5Roll the rainbow mooncake shell

Divide the dry dough into 4 equal parts. You also divide each part of the colored oil dough into 4 equal parts and shape into a long cylinder.

Next, use your hands to spread the dry dough into a flat shape about 12cm long and 8cm wide. You alternate 4-5 different colored oil powder in the middle. Then, you carefully wrap the 4 edges, not letting the oil powder come out.

Next, turn the dough horizontally, use a rolling pin to roll it gently, avoiding the oil powder spilling out. After rolling it thin enough, roll the dough with your hands and gently rub the eyelids to look more beautiful.

You do the same until 4 parts of the dough are gone, then wrap it up and let the dough rest for 15 minutes.

Roll the rainbow mooncake shell

Step 6Wrapping the cake

After 15 minutes, you continue to use a rolling pin, slowly roll the shell to a thickness of about 2mm. You roll the dough again along the oblique line (as shown) to mix the color of the dough and then roll again.

When the dough is about 2mm thick and about 5cm wide, roll it up and cut it in half.

Next, you use a rolling pin, flatten the part of the rainbow dough that has been cut in half. You roll the dough until it reaches about 13cm in diameter to cover the filling. Note that you roll the edges thinner so that when wrapping the filling will be easy.

The pineapple green bean paste you divide into 8 equal parts and proceed to wrap the cake. You put the filling in the middle of the cake, then pack it tightly and round it so that the cake looks nice.

Wrapping the moon cake

Step 7Bake

At the last stage, you put the cake into the baking mold, spray a layer of water and put it in the oven. You bake the cake at a temperature of 170 degrees C (top and bottom fire) for 25 minutes.

Cake before and after baking

Step 8Finished product

The thousand-layer rainbow moon cake not only possesses an eye-catching appearance but also has a very delicious taste.

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Thousands of layers of rainbow mooncakes have an eye-catching appearance

Enjoy

The thousand-layer rainbow moon cake with a crispy crust and a fatty green bean paste with pandan leaves will be wonderful when enjoyed with hot tea !

Enjoy

Where to buy genuine moon cakes online, good prices

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Where to buy genuine moon cakes online, good prices

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