Golden Syrup

Golden syrup is the essential ingredient of making baked mooncakes. It is recomended that it should be keep at least one year before use, so that its colour is relatively deep.

Ingredients:

1200g Granulated Sugar

900ml Boiled Water

8 Slice Lemon (With Seeds)

Method:

Add ingredients in a pot and cook with low heat. Don't stir while the syrup is cooked.	Cook for about 50 minutes then turn the heat off and let it cool down. In order to test if the syrup is ready, just drop a little syrup into cold water and it will form a lump.	Removing the lemon and its seed before storing in bottle.

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Dragon Fruit Jelly Mooncake

The Jelly Mooncake is popular in Malaysia recently. Although the ingredients are simple and easy to find, but due the process of making is slightly complex, hence its pricing still a bit expensive. Have you ever think to made them by yourself? Here are the recipe for your good starting point. The following recipe can made up to 10 Dragon Fruit Jelly Mooncake.

Ingredients:

10 Jelly Egg Yolk

Filling

(A)

200g Dragon Fruit

1 Tablespoon Agar-agar Powder

250ml Water

60g Fine Granulated Sugar

1 Teaspoon Instant Jelly Powder

(B)

100ml Concentrated Coconut Milk

100ml Milk

Mooncake Skin

300g Dragon Fruit

3 Tablespoon Agar-agar Powder

750ml Water

110g Fine Granulated Sugar

3/4 Tablespoon Instant Jelly Powder

Utensils:

3 2x2 Jelly Moon Cake Pan

10 2" Cup (As Jelly Moon Cake Filling Pan)

Method:

The dragon fruit of ingredients (A) and mooncakes are pureed flesh by a food processor.
Start with making filling, the ingredients (A) into pot and keep on stirring and it boils.
Then the ingredient (B) is add and keep on stirring and it boils, hence discard the heat.
Then pour the filling mixture into the cups about quarterly full. Let them cool for a while, then place the egg yolk in the center. Continue by pour the mixture into the cup until the egg yolk is covered.
Next for making the mooncake skin, the ingredient (B) is add and keep on stirring and it boils. Then pour the skin mixture into the mould about quarterly full.
Let them cool for a while, then place the egg yolk in the center. Continue by pour the remaining mixture into the mould until the filling is covered.

Tips

Should you wish to made a simple dragon fruit jelly mooncakes, just prepare the skins and use the simple mould will do.

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Jelly Egg Yolk

The mooncakes festival is coming soon. I will introduce difference types of mooncakes here which include baked mooncakes, pingpi (snow skin）mooncake and jelly mooncakes. Lets start with this jelly mooncakes. The typical baked mooncakes has contained salted egg yolk. So this jelly mooncakes will has it own egg yolk as well. The following recipe can made up to 35 unit of Jelly Egg Yolk.

Ingredients:

(A)

1/2 Tablespoon Agar-agar Powder

350ml Water

50g Fine Granulated Sugar

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

1 Teaspoon Instant Jelly Powder

4 Blade Pandan Leaf (knotted)

(B)

2 Tablespoon Evaporated Milk

1/8 Teaspoon Orange Colouring

Utensils:

1 Small Ice-cube Moulds

Method:

The ingredients (A) is placed into a pot. It is keep on stirring until it boils. Hence discard the heat and remove the pandan leaf.
Then the ingredients (B) is added into the pot, and stir very well.
Next, pour the mixture into the small ice-cube mould until it full, so that the egg yolk is formed completely. Let them cool before placing into refrigerator.
Hence keep them into refrigerator to set about 20 minutes. Then the egg yolks are unmould by using the tooth pick.

Tips

The mixture must be poured into the small ice-cube mould slowly and carefully, so the mixture can flow along all the mould.

The egg yolk could be created into other than the sphere, e.g. the love shape as shown on above photo.

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