The vegan recipe for Vegan Five-Nut Mooncake:

10 X 100 g mooncake

Nutty Stuffing

  • 50 g walnuts (roast until fragrant and coarsely chop)
  • 75 g almonds (roast until fragrant and coarsely chop)
  • 75 g cashew nuts (roast until fragrant and coarsely chop)
  • 50 g pine nuts (roast until fragrant)
  • 50 g melon or pumpkin seed kernels (roast until fragrant)
  • 75 g white sesame seeds (roast until fragrant)
  • 75 g candied winter melon strips (coarsely chop)
  • 35 g candied tangerines (coarsely chop)
  • 125 g maltose
  • 35 g sugar
  • 60 g cooked vegetable oil
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup wheat flour (saute without oil until cooked/the flour becomes light, remove and cool)
  • 1 cup glutinous rice flour (saute without oil until cooked/the flour becomes light, remove and cool)
  • ½ cup cold water
  1. In a large mixing bowl, mix walnuts, almonds, cashew nuts, pine nuts, melon seed kernels, white sesame seeds, candied winter melon strips and candied tangerines together.
  2. Add sugar, salt, maltose and cooked vegetable oil; mix well.
  3. Gradually add wheat flour, glutinous rice flour and cold water; mix well until it can form a lump when grip hard with the hand.
  4. Divide into 10 portions (of 70 grams each nutty stuffing).

Crust

  • 2 cups wheat flour
  • 125 g maltose
  • 50 g vegetable oil
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  1. Mix maltose with baking soda.
  2. Add vegetable oil and combine.
  3. Add wheat flour, mix well and keep aside for 1/2 hour.
  4. Divide the dough into 10 portions (of 30 grams each).

Final Steps

  1. Smear some oil on both hands, place a crust dough ball in the palm, use the other palm to press and form a pastry round.
  2. Put a nutty stuffing ball in the center, wrap up, use your thumb and index finger to gently rub the pastry round upwards until it’s sealed.
  3. Lightly roll into a ball, place it in a greased mooncake mold, gently press, detach and lay it on a baking tray.
  4. Repeat steps 1 – 3.
  5. Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C  for 15 minutes.
  6. Remove, let cool completely and serve (or store/pack).