Recipe of Perfect Mooncakes

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). The festival is about lunar appreciation and Moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as an indispensable delicacy. This is the perfect time for me to share with you the mooncake recipe that I have just made. The style and purpose of this festive dessert have evolved considerably in the modern-day.

Mooncakes is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mooncakes is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:

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

Remove from heat and cool slightly. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Snowskin Mooncakes These were the first "modern" mooncakes, made to satisfy the public's desire for something lighter, healthier and made with less oil than traditional mooncakes. Chilled instead of baked, these mooncakes get their name from the skin, made with cooked glutinous rice flour.

Instructions to make Mooncakes:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Add golden syrup or honey, cooking oil, baking soda and alkaline water in a bowl and mix well.
4. 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
5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and set aside for 40 minutes
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Preheat oven to 355 degrees Fahrenheit. beat the egg and add water to an egg for the egg wash, mix well.
9. 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.
10. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from the oven with 5 minutes left then brush with egg wash. Finish baking till golden brown.
11. After cooling to touch move to an airtight container for two days. Unless you just want to eat now. Happy Mooncake Festival
12. The egg yoke in the center represents the Moon.

Snowskin Mooncakes These were the first "modern" mooncakes, made to satisfy the public's desire for something lighter, healthier and made with less oil than traditional mooncakes. Chilled instead of baked, these mooncakes get their name from the skin, made with cooked glutinous rice flour. Mid-Autumn Festival is a "harvest festival," sort of similar to Thanksgiving, where people celebrate and worship the moon. Mooncake is as quintessential to Mid-Autumn Festival as turkeys are to Thanksgiving. Traditional mooncakes contain a paste made from lotus seeds or beans, and they're sweet.

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