Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. 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.

Mooncakes is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mooncakes is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:

1. Take ————-cake mix————–
2. Take 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
3. Get 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
5. Make ready 1 cup fine flour
6. Prepare ————–filling————
7. Get 6 salted duck egg yokes
8. Get 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. Prepare 1 large egg
12. Take 1 tablespoon water
13. Take ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
14. Get 12 large duck eggs
15. Get 4 cups water
16. Take 1 cup salt
17. Make ready 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
18. Make ready 1 star anise
19. Prepare 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns

Traditional mooncakes, like our lotus mooncakes with salted egg yolks, involve making a pastry with flour and inverted sugar/golden syrup. This creates a shiny and glossy exterior and soft texture. Mooncakes are the hallmark food of this holiday, so it's no surprise that luxury brand's like Alexander McQueen are taking a crack at retailing the delicious Chinese pastry. In this designer iteration, consumers can enjoy a mooncake from a luxe casing, which is more reminiscent of a piece of jewelry than a dessert..

Steps 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 usually gifts, so while demand has been similar to last year because folks are working at home, they are no longer buying in bulk to give away to clients, said Dave Lazaro, marketing. It has also become a fad to purchase mooncake as a gift among relatives, friends, and business associates to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. As a result, the price of mooncakes has escalated every year due to high demand. The selling price is many folds compared to the cost of the ingredients. 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.

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