Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mooncakes. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and. It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival and that means MOONCAKES! We go through the mooncakes from different regions and some funky modern day mooncakes.
Mooncakes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Mooncakes is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:
- Make ready ————-cake mix————–
- Make ready 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
- Prepare 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
- Make ready 1 cup fine flour
- Prepare ————–filling————
- Make ready 6 salted duck egg yokes
- Get 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————
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Make ready 1 tablespoon water
- Make ready ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
- Prepare 12 large duck eggs
- Make ready 4 cups water
- Get 1 cup salt
- Get 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
- Prepare 1 star anise
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns
It is a kind of cookie with various fillings and different artistic patterns on the surface depicting legends of the festival. A wide variety of mooncakes options are available to you, such as taste, processing type. It's a long list and we may miss some wonderful mooncake vendors; if you know any, please let us know. Mooncakes are a traditional part of the Mid-Autumn Chinese festival.
Steps 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.
But there's more to the legend of this pricey pastry. Some mooncakes are savory, filled with meats or vegetables. 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.
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