Hop, Hop,
Hop! This is not the first year making traditional mooncake for festival. I have
been making mooncake for my family for 3 years already. Every year, I
will get my Mooncake paste from
KCT. They sold variety pastes and I would
recommend u to get the paste from them to make delicious mooncake for your
loved one. They do sell
other ingredients that aid your moon cake making. It is not hard to make moon
cake after all. Do try to make some for next year Mooncake festival and enjoy
your bakes with your loved one with a pot of nice tea.
Wish you all a Happy Reunion with your family & friends!
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| Hop! Hop! Hop! |
Traditional
Mooncake
(Make 4pcs of
150g each)
Ingredients
needed
Mooncake
crust
- 120g TOP
flour/Cake flour/Hong Kong Flour
- 70g golden
syrup
- 30g peanut
oil (I used rice bran oil)
- 4g alkaline
water (also called as Lye water)
Filling
- 4 salted egg
yolk, steamed
- 440g lotus
paste (You can choose your preferred paste)
- 40g of melon
seeds (Optional)
Egg wash
- 1 egg yolk +
1 tablespoon of milk + a few drop of cooking oil, mix well and sift.
Portion per
150g mold (Do adjust as per your moon cake mold)
- 110g Lotus
paste (Without Melon seeds)
- 120g Lotus
paste (With Melon seeds)
- 60g moon cake
crust
Steps for
making the crust:
- In a mixing
bowl, add in the golden syrup, peanut oil & alkaline water and whisk/mix
well.
- In another
mixing bowl, add in the flour and create a well in the middle.
- Add in the
wet mixture to the flour. Mix & Knead everything together until it is well
combined. I used my Kmix for the mixing. You can use a spatula to do the
kneading and mixing too.
- Let the dough
rest overnight in the fridge so that u will get a nice imprint.
Steps for
making the mooncake:
- Steam the
salted eggs and let it cool down completely.
- Mix the melon
seeds with the lotus paste.
- Weigh 120g
lotus paste (with melon seeds) and make a hole in the middle to wrap the salted
egg. Wrap it up and form a ball. Repeat the same until you finish your paste
& egg yolks.
- Weigh 60g
crust and flatten it round. Place a lotus paste ball in the middle and wrap it
up to form a ball.
- Lightly dust
your mold and place the mooncake ball into it. Press it hard to firm the
imprint. Remove the mooncake from the mold slowly.
- Place the
mooncake on the baking tray. Repeat the steps for the rest.
Baking the
mooncake:
- Preheat the
oven at 180C.
- Bake the
mooncakes for 10mins.
- Remove the
mooncakes from the oven and let it rest for 5mins.
- Apply the egg
wash with a paint brush. Do not apply a lot of egg wash at one go, remember to
do it slowly with patience if you want a nice moon cake.
- Bake the
mooncake with egg wash for another 15mins or till the color of the mooncake u
want.
- Let the mooncakes
cool down completely and serve it after 3 days. Mooncake skin taste better
after it is soften after days.
Disclaimer:
This is not a sponsored post from KCT.
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| My mooncakes before sending into the oven. :) |