Five-color Sakura Mochi and Fruits

Taste: Sweet; Technique: Steaming; Time: One hour; Difficulty: Moderate.

Detailed Steps for Cooking Five-color Sakura Mochi and Fruits

Mix salad oil, milk, powdered sugar, and milk powder evenly

Mix all the powdered ingredients in the main ingredients, sift them

Combine the two sets of ingredients from the first and second steps, sift twice, until it forms a fine and even paste. Cover and let it sit for half an hour

Steam on high heat for 20 minutes after the water boils in the steamer. You can cover with plastic wrap to prevent water from dripping onto the mixture

After it’s cooked, use a spoon to press down, it should look like this

Put it directly into a bread maker or food processor, knead the dough while it’s hot. This will make the dough more elastic, easier to wrap the filling, and create delicate patterns

Place it in a plastic bag, refrigerate for 1 hour. This will make the dough smoother and more even, and less sticky

Toast a little glutinous rice flour in a non-stick pan over low heat to make a hand powder. This step can be skipped as the refrigerated dough is not very sticky

I used red wine cranberry filling, the method is to wash the cranberries, chop them, steam them, then stir-fry with sugar and a little red wine in a non-stick pan until the alcohol and moisture evaporate. Add glutinous rice flour and vegetable oil, continue to stir-fry until it’s difficult to stir and can be formed into a ball. Let it cool

Take 20g of ice skin dough, wrap 30g of red wine cranberry filling into a ball shape. Set aside

Take several portions of about 20g of ice skin dough, add freeze-dried mango powder, matcha powder, cocoa powder, red yeast rice powder, and a drop of pink food coloring

First, let’s talk about making single-color flowers. Take a small piece of purple-red dough, fill the flower mold, then place it on the spring mold. Put the mooncake ball with filling in the mold, press to create the flower shape

For the two-color flowers, fill the core with matcha-colored dough first, then fill the petals with pink. Follow the same steps as the single-color flowers

Three-color flowers are similar. Fill the heart part with mango dough first

Then fill the petals with pink. Press evenly, especially the edges of the petals

Finally, fill the entire flower shape with matcha dough. Use slightly more dough so the flower shape is full, but not too much to avoid squeezing out

Repeat the same steps to create the three-color ice skin mooncakes