Mooncakes. 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.

Mooncakes Moon cake is special food for Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a kind of cookie with various fillings and different artistic patterns on the surface depicting legends of the festival. See more ideas about Moon cake, Mooncake recipe, Asian desserts.

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mooncakes is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it's quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mooncakes is something which I've loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:

{Prepare of -------------cake mix--------------.
{Prepare 3 tablespoons of golden syrup/ honey.
{Prepare 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
{Take 1/2 teaspoon of alkaline water.
{Prepare 1 cup of fine flour.
{Take of --------------filling------------.
{Prepare 6 of salted duck egg yokes.
{Prepare as needed of purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces.
{Take 1-1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch.
{Get of ---------egg wash------------.
{Make ready 1 of large egg.
{Take 1 tablespoon of water.
{Take of ------Salted Duck Eggs-------.
{Get 12 of large duck eggs.
{Take 4 cups of water.
{Prepare 1 cup of salt.
{Make ready 2 tablespoons of Shoalxing wine.
{Get 1 of star anise.
{Prepare 1 tablespoon of Sichuan peppercorns.

Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival) is just around the corner. Traditional mooncakes contain a paste made from lotus seeds or beans, and they're sweet. One popular combination for the savory version is pork and honey. The tradition of eating moon cakes has a long history.

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 moon cake is a kind of wheaten food. Inspired by 'The outlaw ocean' a book by ian urbina. Mooncakes are as important to festivities as turkey is to Thanksgiving and latkes are to Hanukah. Beautiful in appearance and sophisticated in taste, Cantonese mooncake with salted egg yolk & lotus seed paste is a delectable festive treat. Follow my recipe & tutorial video to make some!

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