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Oreo Mocha Snow Skin Mooncake

Oreo Mocha Snow Skin Mooncake

Recipe for Oreo Mocha Snow Skin Mooncake

Ingredients

(A)  120 g water

       60 g Icing Sugar

       50 g Fresh Cream

       30 g Shortening

       1 tsp Instant Nescafe

(B) 100 g Cooked Glutinous Rice Flour (it's called Koe Fun)

      2.5 ml Coffee Emulco 

Filling 

(C) 120 gm Lotus Paste (buy ready made ones)

      4 pcs Oreo Cookies (remove the cream in the middle and mashed into powder)

      20 g Cooking Chocolate (melted)

(D) 350 g Lotus Paste

METHOD

1. Mix (A) together and then mix (B) together. Put both (A) and (B) into mixing bowl, process till even and divide into 5 equal portions. Let it rest for 30 minutes.

2. Double boil cooking chocolate till it melts, mix in the mashed cookies and lotus paste. Divide into 5 equal portions.

3. Divide lotus paste from (D) into 5 equal portions - 70 g per portion. Use the lotus paste (D) to wrap (C). Set aside.

4. Divide pastry from (1) into 5 portions and roll it individually into flat sheets. You can spread some of the cooked glutinous rice flour to make it less sticky.  Wrap in the filling, seal the edges with your fingers and press it into your chosen mould. Knock it out and keep in the refrigerator to store. Best eaten after 6 hours or so. If it is kept in the fridge for days it will harden and the skin will crack.

Single Yolk Lotus Paste Mooncake

Single Yolk Lotus Paste Mooncake

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Mooncake Biscuits (Koong Chai Peang)

Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner and all restaurants and bakeries are all starting to sell Mooncakes already. Decided to make my own Mooncake this year (will still buy as some are just too delicious to ignore). Started with Mooncake Biscuits, least ingredient, easiest to make. Since it turned out yummy I will proceed to the next level. Lotus Paste Mooncake, Snow Skin Mooncake (my favourite) and Jelly Mooncake HERE I COME!

Ingredients:
1. 200g Golden Syrup (you can actually make this yourself but I went the easy way and bought ready made golden syrup from Bake with Yen).
2. 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate of soda (sifted)
3. 3/4 tbsp alkaline water
4. 50g corn oil

Combine all the ingredients in a basin (big mixing bowl). Mix with a wooden spoon and allow to rest for 4 - 5 hours.

Ingredients: 300g plain flour (sifted) and thick soya sauce for colouring only.

Add thick soya sauce and stir well. Fold in sifted flour gradually and mix evenly to form a smooth, soft dough. DO NOT KNEAD. Let dough rest for 6 - 7 hours.

Preheat oven to 180C.
Divide dough into small portions. Dust with a little flour and press into desire mould. (I used my silicon moulds, will try to use Cookie Cutters next time as I think they may be better). Knock out on a greased baking tray or lined with baking parchment. Bake in pre-heated oven at 180C for 8 minutes.

Remove tray from the oven and leave for 1 - 2 minutes. Brush biscuits with egg glaze and bake again for 6 -7 minutes or until golden.

Ingredients for the Egg Glaze: 2 egg yolks, 1 tsp water, pinch of salt. Mix well and strain.

(The first batch where I used Thick Soya Sauce for the Egg Glaze, turned out darker than expected)

Recipe from At Home with Amy Beh

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Fruity Soya Bean Jelly

Both my kids was down with fever one after another recently which left me with little time to post new ideas or recipes but now that they are running wild again, I have the time to post this yummy soya bean jelly recipe.

In this hot weather, a cool and refreshing jelly is a welcome. Good dose of protein too.

Ingredients:

a. 1 litre sugar free soya bean milk (buy fresh ones from those mobile vans)

b. 500 ml water

c. 30 g agar-agar, soaked for 20 minutes (easier to cook)

d. 2 pandan leaves, knotted

e. 150 ml evaporated milk

f. 250 g caster sugar (you can reduce the amount if you do not want it to be so sweet)

g. 1 tin mixed fruit cocktail, well drained (this is optional)

h. Agar-agar moulds (I used the Mickey Mouse Silicon Mould (Big) and the Winnie the Pooh Silicon Mould (Small)).

1. Put agar-agar, pandan leaves and water in a deep saucepan and bring to a boil. (Saucepan needs to be big enough as you will add the soya milk in later)

2. Simmer over a low flame until agar-agar melts. (This can take a while depending on how soft the agar-agar was in the begining). You can also cut the agar-agar into shorter strands to hasten the process.

3. Add sugar and bring to a boil. The mixture will be quite thick at this point.

4. When the sugar has dissolved, add soy bean milk and bring to a boil again. Switch off the fire and pour in the milk. Stir well to mix and allow to cool slightly.

5. Put 1 tbsp (or as desired) fruit cocktail into the mould and pour the soya bean agar-agar mixture over it. You can also do this without the fruit cocktail. 

6. Leave to set and chill well before serving. 

The 2 on the left is plain while the 2 on the right is with fruit cocktail.

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