Wife's Cake

Sources: Do What I Like Blog
Special Thanks to Florence again for a wonderful recipe!

 Ingredients:

Water dough
100g cake flour (I use bread flour)
25g icing sugar
20g margarine (use lard)
20g corn oil
20g water

Oil Dough
100g cake flour
45g corn oil (use lard)

Filling
55g Candied winter melon (chopped to bite size)
55g castor sugar
70g cooked glutinous rice flour
18g margarine
15g roasted white sesame seeds
12g dessicated coconut
120g boiled drinking water

Egg wash
1 yolk + 1 tsp water + pinch of salt

Method:
Filling: Put all ingredients into a big bowl except water, mix till well combined. Add in water and knead till a dough is formed. Divide filling into 28g portions.

Pastry:
Water dough: Mix all ingredients together till a soft dough is formed. Cling wrap dough and rest for 30 minutes. Divide dough into 13g portions.

Oil dough: Mix all ingredients till a soft dough is formed. Cling wrap and leave it aside to rest for 30 minutes. Divide dough into 10g portions.

Method:
1. Flatten a piece of water dough and wrap in the oil dough, sealed edges facing up. See photo 1.
2. Press and roll out dough into a longish flat piece with a rolling pin.
See photo 2.
3. Roll it up Swiss roll-style, sealed edges facing up. See photo 3.
4. Turn the dough 90 degrees and then roll it into a longish flat piece.
See photo 4.
5. Roll it up Swiss roll-style again.
6. Let the dough stand vertically and flatten it down with your palm. Roll it into a flat round disc and wrap in the filling. Flatten and shape into a nice round shape. See photo 5 - 7.
7. Put the Wife Cakes on a lined tray and apply egg twice.
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 9 minutes. Remove and apply egg wash again. Bake for another 5 minutes.