
Lotus Mooncake Cookies
Level
easy
Cooking
20 min
Preparation
90 min
Ingredients
Servings
3
Butter cold and cubed | 140 g |
Granulated Sugar | 75 g |
Brown Sugar | 75 g |
Eggs | 2 |
Plain Flour | 315 g |
Baking Powder | 1⁄2 tbsp |
Vanilla Extract | 1 tsp |
Salt | 1⁄2 tsp |
Water | 1 1⁄2 tbsp |
Oil any neutral oil | 40 g |
Dried Lotus Seeds soaked, cored and boiled | 100 g |
Granulated Sugar | 40 g |
Honey | 1 tbsp |
How to cook
Prepare the dough
- In the bowl, add the cubed cold butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar then mix on medium speed with a hand mixer until the mixture becomes crumbly.
- Add the eggs and whisk on medium speed until evenly combined.
- Add the baking powder, vanilla extract, honey and salt then mix until evenly combined.
- Mixing the flour in 2 parts until evenly combined.
- Divide the dough into 12 pieces and flatten into discs.
- Leave to chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
Prepare the lotus seed paste
- In a bowl, soak the lotus seeds overnight.
- Boil it to soften, then strain and leave them to cool down.
- Cook it with water, oil and sugar until it forms a paste then set aside.
- When cooled, roll them into balls of roughly 10g-15g.
Rolling and shaping
- Take the dough out to defrost to room temperature.
- Place a lotus paste ball in the middle of the dough disc.
- Wrap the dough around the paste and make sure that there are no holes - use your hands to gently press them into discs.
Bake
- Line the air-fryer with a sheet of parchment paper and lay the cookies on top of it.
- Make sure that they are evenly spaced out as they will spread and increase in size as they bake.
- Bake at 160°C for 15-20 minutes.
- Set aside to cool before serving.
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