It's that time of year where mooncake sales go up because mooncake festival is coming~! And what better way to celebrate this festive occassion than to dabble into homemade mooncakes. Sweet~!
First we needed to prepare the utensils/equipments... Well, the only utensils that we really needed to have beforehand was this. Mooncake mould. Yes, I'm aware that it's in shocking pink. It was much cheaper to get the mould in plastic than the traditional wooden ones... Aside from that, we used a mixing bowl, weighing machine, spoon & tray.
When I saw this I thought it looked freakishly weird so I decided to share it with you guys. What is it, you ask? That was the basis of a mooncake... before making it pretty that is.
The skin of the mooncake consisted of a special flour, icing sugar, shortening & water. We added fresh strawberry since we were making strawberry mooncakes. That strange black blob on top of it was actually red bean paste, which we bought pre-packed. Ahh... the convenience of technology...
Anyway, we covered the red bean paste with the mooncake skin and then we put it into the mooncake mould. [squash, squash, squash]
Oh~! To make it easier for the moulded mooncake to come out, we needed to dust the mould with flour... Oops.. so the first mooncake we made actually needed to be banged out since it got stuck-ish in the mould. Hehe~!
Tadaa~! A homemade mooncake. As odd as it sounds, initially the mooncake will be a bit oily (must be due to the shortening). This type of mooncake that we made just needed to be chilled before served. When chilling, the recipe book told us to wrap the mooncakes in kitchen tissue paper. [shrugs]
For first timers, I think it turned out pretty well. Cheers~!
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