在感受不到家乡明月的中秋，能让身处新西兰的小伙伴感到慰藉的恐怕只有月饼啦。身为吃货，中秋节早已变身成为各式各样月饼聚会的“月饼节”了。俗话说，一个不吃月饼的中秋节，肯定是不完整的中秋节。同样，一个不会做月饼的吃货肯定不是一个好司机。让我们一起来学习怎样做月饼吧。

Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar year, which is the day of the full moon,  is a big thing in China,  also a big thing for Chinese in New Zealand, even there is spring now: eating mooncakes is a must wherever you are. For foodies, Mid-Autumn Festival is more like Mooncake Festival. Varity of mooncakes are the main actors in this day: a Mid-Autumn Festival cannot be perfect without eating mooncake, so a senior foody cannot be perfect without knowing how to make a mooncake! Let’s learn how to make a mooncake!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

1/2 cup salted butter

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup strawberry (or your favorite) jam (traditionally red bean paste is used so if you want a more authentic version, you can use a can of red bean paste instead of the jam).

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Combine the butter, sugar and 1 egg yolk and stir.
• Mix in the flour.
• Form the dough into one large ball and wrap it in plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate dough for half an hour.
• Unwrap the chilled dough and form small balls in the palms of your hand.
• Make a hole with your thumb  in the center of each mooncake and fill with about half a teaspoon of jam.
• Brush each cake with the other beaten egg yolk and place on a cookie sheet.  (We didn't have a brush to do this, so skipped the brushing step)
• Bake for about 20 minutes or just until the outside edges are slightly brown.

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