Traditional Mooncakes (月饼)
Mooncake (月饼) is often consumed during Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), with the full moon on the night of a 15th day of the 8th lunar month, as well as the traditions of moon gazing.
Check out Snowskin Mooncake (冰皮月饼):
http://youtu.be/eOvwvPTcD-w
Video instruction for salted egg yolk in mooncake:
Traditional Mooncakes (月饼)
2014-11-16 15:15:45
Serves 12
50 grams mooncake mould
For the dough
- 100g of plain flour
- 4ml of alkaline water
- 70g of golden syrup
- 25ml of vegetable oil
- ¼ tsp of vanilla extract
For filling
- 430g lotus paste or any paste that you like
- (I'm using lotus and red bean)
Egg wash
- 1 egg and 1 tbsp water
Instructions
- In a bowl, add golden syrup, alkaline water, and vanilla extract, stir to well combine. Add in oil, mix well.
- Add in plain flour, mix with a spatula to form a soft dough. Gently knead the dough using a spatula till smooth, about 30 seconds.
- Wrap with cling wrap and leave to rest for at least 3 hours.
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160CFan-forced.
- Dust the dough with some flour. Give the dough a few light kneading to smooth it.
- Divide dough into 15g pieces. Shape each dough into a ball.
- Divide the filling paste into 35g pieces. Shape each dough into a ball.
- Roll each dough over some flour. Dust hand with flour and flatten each dough into a small disc. Wrap it around the filling and shape it into a ball. Dust hand with some flour to avoid the dough from sticking.
- Lightly dust the wrapped dough with some flour. Place it in the mooncake mould and press the mooncake out. Place mooncake on a baking tray line with parchment paper.
- Spray some water on the mooncakes. This will help to prevent the mooncakes from cracking during baking.
- Bake it for 10mins. Remove from oven and leave to cool for 25 minutes. This is to prevent the filling to expand so that the crust will not crack.
- Brush the top with some egg wash. Return to oven and continue to bake for another 12 - 15mins until golden brown.
- Leave the mooncake to cool completely and store in air tight containers. Wait for a day for the mooncakes' skin to soften before serving.
If you want to add egg yolks in it
- You need to divide the egg yolks and white and steam the yolks for 5 minutes then cool.
- Reduce the amount of filling paste. Both paste and yolk add up to 35 grams. (For mini mooncake, I suggest you to half the yolk for each cake after you cooked)
- Flatten the round paste, in the center add one egg yolk. Roll into ball.
- Follow the rest of the steps in the video.
Notes
- Makes 12-13 mini mooncakes (50 grams mould)
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6 Comments
Sandra
Hi I saw your traditional Mooncake receipe and I want to check with you ur mould is small or big cos I bought the small mould but lotus paste seems to be a bit too much, and if I use e big mould how about the receipe any changes?
Lisa
Hi Mr. Zhong Han,
Could i have your recipe and method to do the Lotus or Bean Paste for Moon Cake filling ?
Thank you
raina shahila
Hi zhong han, I’ve try your mooncake recepie. Thanks for sharing it. Some of my mooncake is good.. but some not. Is it because I take out the mooncake from the mould and do it again? They can’t stand still. But the rest is in good shape and delicious too.:)
Vince
Hey, Zong Han!
I was wondering, what is a good substitute for alkaline water? I can’t really find any around where I live. :/
Summer
Hi Zhong Han,
May I know how to insert two salted egg yolks in a mooncake? Can u show or advise? Thanks.
Zong Han Chua
Replied to your email 🙂