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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
The occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, do you have any plans for a family gathering? If not, let’s get into the kitchen with TasteVN to discover the recipe for green tea cheese sandwich mooncake, which is uniquely delicious and super easy to make to treat the whole family!
Ingredients for Green Tea Cheese Mooncake using Sandwich Serves 4
Sandwich bread 6 slices Cheese 6 pieces Green tea powder 1 teaspoon Unsweetened fresh milk 100 ml Sugar 2 tablespoons (or condensed milk)
What is matcha powder?
- Matcha powder is a type of powder made from fresh or dried green tea leaves.
- Matcha powder originated during the Tang Dynasty (China) and was introduced to Japan around the year 990. Today, thanks to its wonderful benefits and distinctive flavor, matcha powder is popular worldwide.
- Matcha powder is famous for containing a lot of ECCG antioxidants that help prevent cancer, aid in weight loss, brighten the skin, and prevent aging, etc. Therefore, matcha powder is widely used in beauty products.
- Matcha powder has a delicious flavor and a beautiful characteristic green color, making it commonly used in desserts like tiramisu, crepes, blended drinks, etc.
- Besides buying from external stores, you can also easily and safely make matcha powder at home following the instructions from TasteVN.
Tools needed
How to make Green Tea Cheese Mooncake using sandwich
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Make the mooncake crust
Cut the sandwich bread into small pieces and put it in a blender along with 1 tablespoon of green tea powder, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 100ml of unsweetened milk, then blend the mixture until smooth.
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Shape the filling and form
Divide the mooncake crust into 6 parts, each part about 35g, then roll the crust into a ball and flatten it, place the cheese filling in the center and roll it back into a ball.
Then brush a thin layer of cooking oil into the mold, place the cake into the mold, press down firmly to shape it, and then gently remove it.
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Bake the cake
Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes.
Place the cakes on a tray lined with parchment paper, bake the cakes for 5 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius. After 5 minutes, take the cakes out and let them cool.
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Finished product
The green tea cheese mooncake using sandwich looks very beautiful, soft and fragrant, and retains the traditional mooncake flavor, nutty, sweet and fatty, with the added fragrant green tea flavor and moderately creamy cheese filling that is very delicious.
When enjoying the cake, you can brew some hot tea and savor it while watching the moon with family, which is truly wonderful!
TasteVN hopes that with these simple, specific, and detailed steps above, you can personally make and offer your family delicious and attractive green tea mooncakes with cheese made from sandwich. Wishing you success!
