Mooncake Festival is just around the corner or ...

the result of procrastinating... :(

Its the 8th month of the lunar calendar which means the mooncake festivale is just around the corner. And, we are much closer to the end of the year 2010 or the year of tiger.

Last year, I started to bake mooncake and since we are at home for the raya holidays, i took this opportunity to make some snow skin mooncake. I tried a new recipe with some modification and love how it turn out. Here are some pictures of my mooncake ;)

Pooh and Piglet Snowskin Mooncake

Baked some more snowskin mooncakes during the raya holidays. This time I used the just-arrived mould from NST - the Pooh and Piglet mould which I purchased purposely for this.

The mould is so easy to use - much easier than those conventional wooden mould and cuter too ;)

I used the Piglet mould for red bean paste filling and Pooh mould for lotus paste filling. That's why you see the 'black' Piglet as picture below.

I gave some to mom for her distribution and also a box to my SIL.

 

And, pack some of the mooncake and shared with my colleagues in the office yesterday. Coincidentally, my boss called us to his room for a mooncake session - I don't have to go round to distribute the mooncake.

 

What do you think? Aren't they cute? I love them.

I will like to thank Veronica of NST for such speedy delivery.

Traditional Mooncake: 1st Trial

This year I have the urge to make my own mooncake. I have made some snowskin mooncake and am liking it. Last weekend I tried baking some traditional mooncake based on recipe from Lily of Lily's Wai Sek Hong.

The process is quite tedious as I started with making my own golden syrup as per Lily's recipe. Then a mixture for the dough need to be rest for an hour before mixing with the flour. The dough as per picture below will then be left to rest for 30minutes before it can be used.

The mooncake ready for their 1st bake/broil until brown. After which it needs to be cooled for 10-15 minutes before applying the egg wash and continue for 2nd bake.



The finished product.........

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ta da... my 1st batch of mooncake looks UGLY!!!!!

and I used the Mickey Mouse cutter for some of the dough but then the portion is too small... the Mickey's ears looks like cutted-off!!! Hubby said very creative but gotta try harder!

Mom and dad say the taste is ok but gotta improve on the look. And I promise myself I will.

My second batch look better and is still in the container. As advised by some blogger, baked mooncake taste better 2-3 days after it is baked. So I will wait till tomorrow before I taste my second batch. Will keep you posted ;)

Black Sesame Snow Skin Mooncake

The Lantern Festival is about one and a half month away but supermarkets start selling the mooncake. I have even bought some and made some ;)

Got this simple recipe and try making this snow skin mooncake. The snow skin does not look like snow cause its black in colour. The black colour is due to the ground black sesame. It is delicious, hihihi at least my Angel love them too.

I didn't get a proper mooncake mould so used the angku kuih wooden mould. I used a small mould so the mooncake can be pop into one's mouth :)

Below a mooncake made from a jelly-mooncake mould, not very pretty :(

These are my cute little black sesame mooncake with lotus paste filling. its actually about the size of a 50cents coin. It does not look pretty but its taste is good and also very healthy. Black sesame its good for your health and especially if you want shiny black hair!

Will try other mooncake recipe before the Lantern Festival. If its nice can give-away as festive gifts too. Not a bad idea huh ;)