Mooncake

My first time making mooncake. It is much harder than I thought. I remembered mum used to work for a mooncake factory donkey years ago. Vaguely I remembered she said how precise and important all the ingredients were, now I realized it too. As two mooncake in Perth will cost around 18 dollars for one york mooncake, I thought I will give it a go.

I search high and low for alkaline water and the cake mould. Well, tough luck as it is sooO near to the festival already. In the end, I decided to use the US chinese recipe which can skip using the alkaline water. Well, all turn out fine except I do notice the texture of the mooncake is not as soft and dense like mooncakes which I bought from the shop. I use an empty square container for my moulding and write out a stencil of "fook" just to increase the feeling of mooncake. As you can see my mooncake mould is abit blunt.The red bean paste, I had to make them the day before so it would be easier to shape into ball.

I have to admit my family is not much of a fan of mooncake but they still sampled a portion of it. That is good enough for me as a first timer! Better next time..