Monday, 7 September 2015

Shanghai mooncakes

Mooncakes festival is coming soon.Not long ago,I've got some thoughts of making Shanghai mooncakes..Even though it's still weeks away,I started trying it out.I've never make any Shanghai mooncakes before,or that I have but I can't remember?I've got the recipe copied 
down from a book many years ago.


 My recipe book has now been put to good use.I've kept it for too long and  it has now turned  a bit yellow.



Recipe:

250 g butter
140 g icing sugar
1 egg,beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence

Sifted Ingredients:(combined)

400 g plain flour     
50 g custard flour

100 g each lotus paste or any other paste(roll into balls)
1 beaten egg for glazing
Melon flakes

Cream butter and icing sugar,mix in beaten egg and vanilla essence.Mix in combined sifted 
flour.

Divide dough into 50 g portions and roll into balls.Roll out between sheets of plastic wrap.
Wrap the dough around 100 g balls of lotus paste.Shape up into round balls and place on
a baking tray.
Brush with egg glaze and sprinkle melon seeds onto it.
Bake in 200°C oven for 20 minutes until golden brown. 


1 comment:

Apple said...

I prefer shanghai moon cakes to teochew spiral moon cakes because of the pastries.more flaky,the more better.I am not really a moon cakes lover but my husband and kids are.They can eat all sorts of moon cakes.

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