Monday, September 13, 2010

Mooncake 2010 - Traditional Baked Mooncakes

I've made use of the long weekends to bake some mooncakes. Last year, I did not have the time to bake these, and made snowskin and agar-agar ones instead. It made me realise that I still prefer and appreciate these old-school baked mooncakes.

I had been using Florence's recipe for mooncakes and as usual, I used it again this year. It's a good, no-fail recipe. Thanks Florence, for your generous sharing.

I only made single yolk ones as I'm no fan of salted egg yolks, but since I'm giving some of them away as festive gifts, having a yolk in them makes them more presentable. :P

Here's the mooncakes... I LOVE the mold. Special thanks to Elyn for bringing them in!
There was leftover dough and filling, so I made a piglet and use the cookie cutter to finish up the dough.
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8 comments:

  1. NEL, the batter baker4:44 PM, September 13, 2010

    I love the mould too! Has a very unique shape. The texture of your mooncake "skin" and the filling looks very good too. Must learn from you :)

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  2. Little Corner of Mine11:02 PM, September 13, 2010

    Loved it! Your mooncake looks so good.

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  3. Elyn11:04 PM, September 13, 2010

    I want ONE box!

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  4. Baking Fiend9:11 AM, September 14, 2010

    Thanks Gals!

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  5. Bakericious12:10 PM, September 14, 2010

    looks very pretty! I used Florence's recipe too :).

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  6. tina7:29 PM, September 14, 2010

    Looks so nice, I wanna make some too, but only me eating and no lotus paste, so am thinking of making snow skin ones.

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  7. Bakertan11:18 PM, September 19, 2010

    Hi,

    the mooncakes are very nicely browned. Did you make your own sugar syrup?

    cheers and happy baking =]

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  8. Baking Fiend9:01 AM, September 20, 2010

    Thanks for dropping by, Bakertan,

    I did not make my own sugar syrup. Too lazy to do that. I used Taikoo sugar syrup that's one yr-old (I buy the sugar syrup and keep it for one year, doens't spoil, it's sugar after all). Older sugar syrup gives a deeper and nicer colour to the baked mooncakes. :)

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