Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and. Mooncake recipe - (Quick and easy). It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival and that means MOONCAKES!

Mooncakes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mooncakes is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:

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

Today is the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, which to me means mooncakes! 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! We ended our mooncake project yesterday with a bottle of champagne and two thick cuts of prime steak.

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.

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