SHANGHAI MOONCAKE

Mooncake is a Chinese traditional  cake eaten during the Mid autumn festival which falls on the 15th of August of the lunar calendar. Typical mooncakes are round pastry with a thick rich filling made of red beans or lotus seed paste . Some may have salted egg yolks in the filling. Mooncakes are usually eaten in wedges accompanied by chinese tea. Today, it has become a trend that businessman and families present mooncakes as a gift to their clients or relatives during this Mid-autumn Festival.  Mooncakes are sold in beautiful boxes and tins  nowadays, and it is quite pricey but people still buy because it is once a year affair. For  me I don't quite like to eat the traditional  mooncake as I find it too sweet. I prefer Shanghai Mooncake as it is less sweet. So today I am going to share how to make shanghai mooncake.

SHANGHAI MOONCAKE

Ingredients

180 g butter

60 g caster sugar

240 g self raising flour

40 g custard powder

2 tbsp milk

12 salted egg yolks

35 g x 12 lotus seed paste

1egg yolk for egg wash

Method

1. Beat butter and sugar till creamy and white. Put in milk and mix well.

2. Sift self raising flour and custard powder together. Stir in the flour mixture and mix well to form a 

    dough. Keep in the fridge for 30 minutes.

3. Wash the salted egg yolks to remove traces of egg white . Sprinkle some sesame oil onto the egg 

    yolks and bake in the oven for 8 minutes. Remove from heat let cool.

4. Wrap each egg yolk with 35g of lotus seed paste.

5. Divide dough into 12 portion of 45g each. Wrap filling with the dough.

6. Place dough on a greased baking tray line with parchment paper.

7. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Take out after 10 minutes to brush with egg wash and 

    decorate with pumpkin seeds or sesame seeds. Bake for another 30 minutes.

     Steps.....

Bake egg yolk for 8 minutes

    35 g of lotus seed paste  each.

   Egg yolks and lotus seed paste

 Wrap egg yolk in lotus seed paste

 Put filling in  the dough and wrap

    

    Ready for baking... Bake for minutes

 Apply egg wash and decorate with pumpkin seeds

 Bake for another 30 minutes.

 Freshly baked shanghai mooncakes

 Should have waited a little longer to cut it.

                                                                             Can't wait to see the result.. Hehe

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                               Wishing everyone a blessed Mid-autumn Festival

                                                      Enjoy  and be happy.

                                                             中秋節快樂