Mooncakes
Mooncakes

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Mooncakes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mooncakes is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:
  1. Make ready ————-cake mix————–
  2. Prepare 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  4. Take 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
  5. Make ready 1 cup fine flour
  6. Take ————–filling————
  7. Prepare 6 salted duck egg yokes
  8. Get as needed purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces
  9. Get 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
  10. Make ready ———egg wash————
  11. Take 1 large egg
  12. Make ready 1 tablespoon water
  13. Prepare ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
  14. Take 12 large duck eggs
  15. Take 4 cups water
  16. Take 1 cup salt
  17. Make ready 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
  18. Get 1 star anise
  19. Make ready 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. We ended our mooncake project yesterday with a bottle of champagne and two thick cuts of prime steak. Why go to so much trouble when there are literally hundreds of mooncake recipes online? Mooncakes are traditional Chinese pastries that are made during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated in China, Vietnam, as well as other countries in Asia.

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.

Mooncakes are a traditional part of the Mid-Autumn Chinese festival. 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.

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