Black Sesame Egg Yolk Mooncake

I know the Mid-Autumn Festival is over and this mooncake was so good, so this recipe is a keeper and has to be documented. Don't the egg yolk look so much like the bright moon on the 15th night of the 8th moon? The egg yolk is homemade with free-range chicken egg and the how to is here http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/2006/05/homemade-salted-eggs.html and http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/2007/03/homemade-salted-eggs-ii.html


Ingredients:

Pastry and lotus paste filling - follow the recipe from here http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/2007/08/mooncakes.html

Filling

Salted Egg Yolk

Lotus paste (100 gm for a mooncake)

Black Sesame

150 gm lotus paste

30 gm ground black sesame

10 gm peanut butter

(The above makes 6 portions of 30 gm to a mooncake)

Method:

To assemble:

Wrap egg yolk with black sesame lotus paste and wrap again with lotus paste.

Wrap with pastry and bake.

Serves