{"id":1429,"date":"2011-08-27T23:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2023-04-14T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:58:54","slug":"mooncakes-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2011\/08\/mooncakes-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooncakes for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s mooncakes were barely satisfactory.\u00a0 The dough still has a long way to go to approach commercial quality. Below is the new improved recipe.<\/p>\n<h4>Equipment<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mooncake mould<\/li>\n<li>Round box for dusting the assembled balls. Disposable food container will do nicely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fillings<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Red bean or Lotus paste<\/li>\n<li>Melon seeds, roasted in the toaster oven.<\/li>\n<li>M&amp;M or chocolate of any kind for kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Recipe for the dough or skin<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>100gm fried glutinous rice flour or &#8220;kou fen&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>50gm shortening<\/li>\n<li>50gm icing sugar<\/li>\n<li>140ml of water<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon of condensed milk.<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon of pandan flavouring<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon of the desired colouring.<\/li>\n<li>1 small bowl of flour for dusting.<\/li>\n<li>Some toothpicks for cleaning (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sieve the flour and icing sugar together into a mixing bowl.\u00a0 Put the shortening and condensed milk into the flour. Separately, mix water, flavouring and colouring into a syrup.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of mixing the flour and syrup together slowly like cake making, pour the entire portion of syrup into mixing bowl.\u00a0 Using a spatula, I use a rice cooker spatula, stir the mixture till you get a soft dough.\u00a0 It should be like something like a concrete putty but softer.\u00a0 If it is like Play Dough, you need to add more water. Make sure there are no lumps but do not over stir or it will harden like plasticine.<\/p>\n<p>Cover the mixing bowl with cling wrap and let it stand for about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Using a weighing scale divide up dough into lumps of 40gm.\u00a0 At the same time layout a similar number of balls of filling.\u00a0 I used commercial white lotus paste. For my small mould, it is about 20gm. \u00a0 The small mould should take a filled ball of 60gm.\u00a0 Stuff the chocolate in the filling centre. Adjust accordingly depending on the amount of filling that you desire.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can try for a 20grams of dough to 20grams of filling (inclusive of chocolate) for a 40grams ball.\u00a0 This won&#8217;t fill the mould but it is easier to fall out!<\/p>\n<p>You should prepare this beforehand. When you are assembling the pastry or dough with the filling, it can get messy.<\/p>\n<p>On a pre dusted flat surface, I used a dinner plate, flatten a ball of dough.\u00a0 Place a ball of filling and slowly cover it up with the filling.\u00a0 Once the filling is covered, dust it by rolling it in a small bowl of flour.\u00a0 Toss the ball hand to hand to remove excess flour. Place the ball into the moon cake mould.\u00a0 Press firmly to ensure the sides are filled out.\u00a0 Slap out the moulded mooncake.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/?p=809\">link <\/a>for more details<\/p>\n<p>Some bits of the dough might get stuck in the mould carvings.\u00a0 Use a toothpick to cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>You can store the mooncake in a sealed container in the fridge for up to three days.\u00a0 The skin will start cracking thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s mooncakes were barely satisfactory.\u00a0 The dough still has a long way to go to approach commercial quality. Below is the new improved recipe. Equipment Mooncake mould Round box for dusting the assembled balls. Disposable food container will do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,248],"tags":[286,254],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fun","tag-mooncake","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}