Traditional Mooncake

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Traditional Mooncakes are harder to make not as simple as snowskin. There are more procedures to follow. Baking time in oven is very important.

Traditional Mooncake 

Ingredients for Skin

Sift together into a big mixing bowl:-

• 300g Bun Flour or Hong Kong Flour
• 1/8 to 1/4 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda
• 1/8 to 1/4 tsp Salt

Mix together and combine well:- 

• 210g Mooncake Sugar Syrup
• 60g Oil
• 1/4 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1 tsp Alkali Water

1. Sieve the flour in a mixing bowl
2. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture
3. Pour in sugar syrup mixture and mix well till it forms a dough using a spatula
4. Cover the mixing bowl with a wet towel and rest the dough for 30 to 45 minutes

Ingredients for Eggwash

• 1 Egg Yolk
• 5g Mooncake sugar syrup
• 1tsp Hotwater 

Mix together without beatin and sieve it to get a smooth glaze

Method

1. Knead the rested skin dough till it firms up
2. Flatten skin dough on palm of your han
3. Put the ball of paste onto the flattened dough and enclose paste by gently pressing edges until is sealed
4. Dust the filled dough with flour, put into lightly floured mooncake mold and press in gently
5. Knock or piston out the molded mooncake depending on the mould used
6. Place on baking tray lined with baking paper
7. Bake in pre-heated oven at 175°C to 180°C for 10 mins till light brown
8. While baking, prepare the eggwash
9. Remove from the oven, rest for 10mins and brush the top with eggwash
10. Return to bake at 175°C to 180°C for 10 mins till golden brown
11. Leave mooncake to cool completely and store in air tight containers. 
12. Wait for 1 ~ 3 days for the mooncakes to 回油 (for the skin to soften) before serving.

Oven Temperature: 175°C to 180°C
Time to Bake: bake 10mins till light brown, rest 10mins then apply egg wash, then bake 10mins till golden brown

Recipe adapted from: Fatboo

Snowskin Mooncake

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Successful attempts of snowskin mooncake. It was easier then expected. We followed the receipe on Redman snow skin premix from Phoon Huat as follow:-

Snowskin Mooncake

Ingredients

• 1000g of snow skin premix
• 400 to 450g of water
• 200g of Shortening 
• 2g Pandan flavour
• few drops of colouring

(please alter the receipe accordingly - 500g is about 60 small square ones)
No Baking required!!
Method

1. Mix the premix flour with water
2. Add shortening, flavour and colour to the mixture
3. Rest for 15 to 50 minutes
4. Time to make mooncake and once done put in fridge

Small Square mould: 16g Skin and 32g Paste
Small Round Cartoon: 21g Skin and 42g Paste

*Add* 19.08.2019
Small circle mould: 10g Skin and 20g Paste
KCT Snowskin Premix: 600g
Paste: 2kg, ~ approx 100 pieces
Total cost: approx. $45