Mooncakes. In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and. Mooncake 月餅 is the indispensable Chinese dessert served during the mid-autumn festival which Therefore, this mooncake recipe is about how to make the traditional Cantonese style mooncakes. Mooncakes are a staple of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather to celebrate the first full moon of autumn.

It is a kind of cookie with various fillings and different artistic patterns on the surface depicting legends of the festival. Mooncake is something you can't miss. See more ideas about Moon cake, Mooncake recipe, Asian desserts. You can Have Mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mooncakes

It's of -------------cake mix--------------.
Lets Go Prepare 3 tablespoons of golden syrup/ honey.
Lets Go Prepare 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of alkaline water.
It's 1 cup of fine flour.
Lets Go Prepare of --------------filling------------.
Lets Go Prepare 6 of salted duck egg yokes.
Lets Go Prepare as needed of purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces.
Lets Go Prepare 1-1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch.
It's of ---------egg wash------------.
Lets Go Prepare 1 of large egg.
Lets Go Prepare 1 tablespoon of water.
It's of ------Salted Duck Eggs-------.
It's 12 of large duck eggs.
Lets Go Prepare 4 cups of water.
What You needis 1 cup of salt.
What You needis 2 tablespoons of Shoalxing wine.
What You needis 1 of star anise.
It's 1 tablespoon of Sichuan peppercorns.

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? Traditional mooncakes contain a paste made from lotus seeds or beans, and they're sweet. One popular combination for the savory version is pork and honey.

Mooncakes step by step

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..
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..
Add golden syrup or honey, cooking oil, baking soda and alkaline water in a bowl and mix well..
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.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and set aside for 40 minutes.
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..
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..
Preheat oven to 355 degrees Fahrenheit. beat the egg and add water to an egg for the egg wash, mix well..
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..
Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from the oven with 5 minutes left then brush with egg wash. Finish baking till golden brown..
After cooling to touch move to an airtight container for two days. Unless you just want to eat now. Happy Mooncake Festival.
The egg yoke in the center represents the Moon..

The tradition of eating moon cakes has a long history. The moon cake is a kind of wheaten food. According to the records of moon cakes and the Mid-Autumn. Mooncakes are as important to festivities as turkey is to Thanksgiving and latkes are to Hanukah. This article is part of our Mid-Autumn Festival Family Guide.