Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mooncakes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mooncakes is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mooncakes is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and. Mooncakes are something you typically seen bought at the store for the mid-autumn festival. But maybe, you can make your own homemade mooncakes and make. Mooncake 月餅 is the indispensable Chinese dessert served during the mid-autumn festival which falls on the This is the perfect time for me to share with you the mooncake recipe that I have just made.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:
- Take ————-cake mix————–
- Get 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
- Get 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Get 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
- Take 1 cup fine flour
- Make ready ————–filling————
- Get 6 salted duck egg yokes
- Make ready as needed purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces
- Prepare 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Make ready ———egg wash————
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Make ready 1 tablespoon water
- Take ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
- Take 12 large duck eggs
- Prepare 4 cups water
- Get 1 cup salt
- Take 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
- Prepare 1 star anise
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns
According to the records of moon cakes and the Mid-Autumn. This recipe shows you how to create traditional Cantonese mooncakes from scratch without purchasing golden syrup or kansui. It uses black sesame filling with salty egg yolk. Mooncakes are as important to festivities as turkey is to Thanksgiving and latkes are to Hanukah.
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.
It uses black sesame filling with salty egg yolk. Mooncakes are as important to festivities as turkey is to Thanksgiving and latkes are to Hanukah. Snow skin mooncakes are an uncooked version of Chinese mooncakes - learn how to make them from scratch including a sweet-nutty sesame filling. Pretty & delicious, they're a great sweet treat for. Mooncakes are a traditional part of the Mid-Autumn Chinese festival.
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