Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mooncakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mooncakes is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mooncakes is something which I have loved my whole life.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mooncakes using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mooncakes:

1. Prepare ————-cake mix————–
2. Take 3 tablespoons golden syrup/ honey
3. Make ready 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon alkaline water
5. Make ready 1 cup fine flour
6. Take ————–filling————
7. Get 6 salted duck egg yokes
8. Take as needed purple yam, according to how big you make the cakes I used 16 ounces
9. Take 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
10. Get ———egg wash————
11. Get 1 large egg
12. Take 1 tablespoon water
13. Prepare ——Salted Duck Eggs——-
14. Make ready 12 large duck eggs
15. Prepare 4 cups water
16. Get 1 cup salt
17. Prepare 2 tablespoons Shoalxing wine
18. Take 1 star anise
19. Get 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns

Mooncakes are the most iconic food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important holiday for Chinese people next to Chinese New Year, but it is also celebrated in many countries across Asia. Most mooncakes have a pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling. Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges during the festival, and shared by family members.

Steps to make Mooncakes:

1. If you make the salted duck eggs yourself start 30 days ahead. Heat the water and salt add pepper corns and star anise. Let cool completely. Wash the eggs well look them over make sure there is no cracks.
2. Put them in a sealable clean jar. Pour brine over the eggs and add wine, seal make sure eggs are totally under the brine. Seal and let sit for 30 days take 1 egg and boil if it doesn't taste salty let sit a few more days. boil the eggs before using. Or you can buy at some Asian markets.
3. Add golden syrup or honey, cooking oil, baking soda and alkaline water in a bowl and mix well.
4. Slowly add the flour to the liquid, using your hand to mix the ingredients well. Knead the dough gently till mixed. Form into a ball
5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and set aside for 40 minutes
6. Take the purple yam and form a ball. Enclose the egg yolk in the purple yam filling. Traditionally lotus seed paste is used for a filling but I couldn't find any.
7. Take some of the dough for the cake and form a disc, then gently but firmly push the cake dough around the filling. Check often to see if there are any breaks in the dough.
8. Preheat oven to 355 degrees Fahrenheit. beat the egg and add water to an egg for the egg wash, mix well.
9. If you have a mooncake mold you can press the balls into cakes. If your like me, spay a mold with nonstick spray and put over ball to make the cakes. I used new molds for making soap, I got at a craft store. Line a pan with parchment paper and add cakes to top.
10. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from the oven with 5 minutes left then brush with egg wash. Finish baking till golden brown.
11. After cooling to touch move to an airtight container for two days. Unless you just want to eat now. Happy Mooncake Festival
12. The egg yoke in the center represents the Moon.

Most mooncakes have a pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling. Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges during the festival, and shared by family members. They are generally served with Chinese tea, and, very rarely, mooncakes are. It has also become a fad to purchase mooncake 月餅 as a gift among relatives, friends, and business associates to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. As a result, the price of mooncakes has escalated every year due to high demand.

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