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As promised, I have created a video that demonstrates the process for making these beautiful thousand layer spiral mooncakes.
I made these pastries as part of a larger pumpkin themed post for Round 8 of Project Food Blog. Together with pumpkin mochi cake and savory Chinese pumpkin cakes, this mooncake was part of a post that highlighted ways to use pumpkin in more unusual ways.
These pastries are a bit complicated to make, as the method involves making two types of dough – an “oil dough” and a “water dough.” Have you heard the old saying, “oil and water don’t mix”? That is the loose principle behind why this dough works. You wrap one type of dough over another, and then you flatten, roll it up, flatten again, and roll it up a couple times in order to create the layers.
Check out the 2-minute video to see it in action!
Note – the embedded video is a bit cut off. Click here to see it in full size.
Thousand Layer Spiral Mooncakes
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I would really like to make these! you are so inspiring to me (and many others)
I need your help to do it….Do you know how to convert grams to american measurements like cups?
Hi Channon,
Thanks for your kind comments. I’m really sorry, I don’t know off hand the conversions for grams to volume. I am lucky enough to own a scale (GREAT investment if you want to get into baking), and thus I didn’t have to worry about that. I am pretty sure there are some websites out there that help you convert grams to volume measurements. For example, Joy of Baking has some useful conversions.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/IngredientSubstitution.html
Jen
This looks really great! I’ve gotten the dough part down, but I would love to make the pumpkin filling. Do you have a recipe for the pumpkin butter mochi or is that something you can purchase at the store? Thank you!
Did you mean “cut side down”? When I watched the video, it looks like you rolled out the dough with the cut side down, which is how I’ve seen it done elsewhere (and how I did it, too).
Hi Cindy,
The recipe for the pumpkin butter mochi is sort of hidden in this post.
http://www.tinyurbankitchen.com/2010/11/project-food-blog-round-8-unusual-take.html
Just search for the term “”Alternate Pumpkin Mochi Cake recipe.”
Jen
Ooh, you’re right. MAN you have good eyes! (or just really good attention to detail!). Thanks! I’ll update the post.