Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mooncake recipe - (Quick and easy). In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and. See more ideas about Moon cake, Mooncake recipe, Asian desserts.
Mooncakes is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mooncakes is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:
- Take ————-cake mix————–
- Prepare 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
- Get 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Get 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
- Take 1 cup fine flour
- Prepare ————–filling————
- Prepare 6 salted duck egg yokes
- Make ready as needed purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces
- Get 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Prepare ———egg wash————
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Take 1 tablespoon water
- Take ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
- Make ready 12 large duck eggs
- Make ready 4 cups water
- Make ready 1 cup salt
- Get 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
- Get 1 star anise
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns
Mooncakes are a staple of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather to celebrate the first full moon of autumn. Spray the mooncake mould and place the stuffed mooncake into the mould. Transfer the stuffed mooncake onto a lined baking tray. Repeat this step to finish the remaining dough and lotus paste.
Instructions to make Mooncakes:
- If you make the salted duck eggs yourself start 30 days ahead. Heat the water and salt add pepper corns and star anise. Let cool completely. Wash the eggs well look them over make sure there is no cracks.
- Put them in a sealable clean jar. Pour brine over the eggs and add wine, seal make sure eggs are totally under the brine. Seal and let sit for 30 days take 1 egg and boil if it doesn't taste salty let sit a few more days. boil the eggs before using. Or you can buy at some Asian markets.
- Add golden syrup or honey, cooking oil, baking soda and alkaline water in a bowl and mix well.
- Slowly add the flour to the liquid, using your hand to mix the ingredients well. Knead the dough gently till mixed. Form into a ball
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and set aside for 40 minutes
- Take the purple yam and form a ball. Enclose the egg yolk in the purple yam filling. Traditionally lotus seed paste is used for a filling but I couldn't find any.
- Take some of the dough for the cake and form a disc, then gently but firmly push the cake dough around the filling. Check often to see if there are any breaks in the dough.
- Preheat oven to 355 degrees Fahrenheit. beat the egg and add water to an egg for the egg wash, mix well.
- If you have a mooncake mold you can press the balls into cakes. If your like me, spay a mold with nonstick spray and put over ball to make the cakes. I used new molds for making soap, I got at a craft store. Line a pan with parchment paper and add cakes to top.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from the oven with 5 minutes left then brush with egg wash. Finish baking till golden brown.
- After cooling to touch move to an airtight container for two days. Unless you just want to eat now. Happy Mooncake Festival
- The egg yoke in the center represents the Moon.
The tradition of eating moon cakes has a long history. The moon cake is a kind of wheaten food. According to the records of moon cakes and the Mid-Autumn. Mooncake (月饼) is often consumed during Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节). The Mid-Autumn Festival (mooncake festival) is just around the corner, mooncakes.hk is pleased to present a variety of mooncake selection.
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