Mooncake Cookies
Made these mooncake pastry cookies (豬仔餅) for my sisters and nephews. The kids prefer this over the mooncakes. So here it is and will be sending them over as soon as possible.
The last time I made these was like last mooncake festival. When I made them this afternoon I sort of made a boo boo out of everything. Like, the dough got stuck onto the moulds, the cut pastry was out of shape and etc. See, you have to practise to make things work. Luckily, I did them today so, when it comes to mooncake festival I will not make the same mistakes again.
Ingredients:
300g plain flour
195g golden syrup
90g peanut oil
1.5 teaspoon alkaline water
Egg wash: Beat 1 egg with 1 teaspoon water
Method:
1. Mix peanut oil, golden syrup and alkaline water well.
2. Sieve flour into a mixing bowl, make a well in the flour and stir in (1).
3. Do not overmix.
4. Cut dough with cookie mould and place in lined baking tray.
5. Spray with water before popping it into oven.
6. Bake at 180C for 10 minutes, remove from oven, cool it and apply egg wash.
7. Pop it back to oven and bake until golden brown in colour.
Notes:
Work with floured hands and floured cookie moulds on a floured surface.
Labels: Mooncakes
posted by Florence @ 2:57 PM
26 Comments:
Wow, lovely ! Please courier it asap. Can't wait to eat them up.
Btw, how many pieces did you bake?
Don't forget to courier the mooncake to us during mooncake festival. Did you try out the Pandan Paste ?
JT
Hi JT,
2 dozens for you and 1 dozen for Karen!
No, not yet try the pandan paste. Will try it next week. :)
OMG!!! my favourite Winnie the Pooh! How dare you eat the cute pooh without sharing with me!?!?! Please courier some to me ASAP as well!!
hey florence.. if I do visit HK, can bring me to buy this cute winnie the pooh mould ar?
Thanks for sharing this recipe. Time to bake this again. This a sure hit with kids.
Also awaiting for you to post your mooncake recipe :)
...jojong
oh... I love Winnie too...so cute... too bad I can't find the mould here....
Hi oppss,
Are you sure you will be in HK?
I can mail the mould to Kirsten and you can collect from her when you are in Msia. :)
Hi Jojong,
Sorry to keep you waiting. Practise this cookie first and you will have no problem baking mooncakes later on! Will be posting the baked mooncake and chilled mooncake in the next two weeks. Keep a lookout! ^w^
Hi Doreen,
Glad you like the pooh. Do you want the mould seriously? I can mail to you if you really want it! :)
Florence,
I really like these mooncake cookies, but i cant find golden syrup here,I used corn syrup to make my mooncake last year.Of course the result only so so .
Do you know how to make golden syrup?^_~
Xie xie.
Hi Angie,
Maybe you can try this:
Put 1/4 cup sugar in a saucepan and even it out.
Sprinkle in 1/2 tsp vinegar and 1 tsp water.
Simmer it over low heat for 5 minutes without stirring.
After 5 minutes turn the heat to medium and cook till it has a light caramel color. This should take about another 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and add in 1/3 cup corn syrup and let it stand for 3 minutes without stirring.
The mixture should be bubbling then.
Stir well only when the bubbling has stopped.
Easier option:
a) Simmer over heat 2 parts light corn syrup + 1 part molasses till well mixed.
b) 1 part honey + 1 part light corn syrup
c) Mix 1 part light corn syrup + 3/4 part honey + 1/4 part maple syrup
Hope these are of help to you. :)
Hi florence,
Thank you so much, i will try out option B to make the mooncake cookies.
Hi Florence,
Can you please tell me where you bought the moulds from? I'm a Winnie the Pooh fanatic.
Thanks so much.
hi! may i know where you get the helo kitty moulds from? thanks!
Hi meefe,
I bought the Hello Kitty mould from UNY in Hong Kong.
Hi Josephine,
The pooh cookie mould is available from UNY o SOGO department store in Hong Kong.
Hi there
I am in Vancouver, I could like to find out what it alkaline water. I could like to do some for mooncake for my family as the ones sold here is different from the ones we have back home.
Hope you will share your recipe of the traditional mooncakes. Thank you.
Hi Florence,
I made these cookies last nite. Cookies not that hard inside. Is it correct? BTW, I can't find peanut oil so substitute with canola oil.
Hi delia,
That's right - the texture.
It's fine to use canola oil instead of peanut oil.
Cheers!
Hi florence, I have tried this recipe twice but not able to get the same nice results as you. It seems that the top will crack such that the surface is not smooth and even. In addition, i am not able to get the even nice brown color which you manage to get. Any idea what could have happened? I used a silicone brush to brush on water instead of spraying besides this i followed every step as mentioned in your recipe.
Chris,
Try to reduce the oven temperature, maybe use 175 - 180C. :D
Hi florence,
I used your mooncake cookies recipe but i modified them, adding green tea paste into them. Thanks for the recipe:)It was great.
You can view them at my blog.
Bake Me Happy.
Hi is there a difference between peanut oil and canolla oil?
ur biscuits are really pretty btw :D
lin
Linfoong,
Thank you.
The only difference is in the fragrance of the oil used.
hi Florence,
i love all your pastries and cake yumm!!! i'm here in california i don't know where to get the winnie the pooh mold ( i also looking for hello kitty) can i order it to you?
kimm
Hi Florence Happy 2009 from Sydney Australia My name is Krystyna & I love the Mooncake cookies you made for our nepkYou are very talented I was a pastry chef in Restaurant in Sydney So I love to bake also I hope to read your blog and enjoy your reat cooking and stories Love & best wishes Krystyna in Sydney
Hi Florence,
Thank you. The mooncake cookies very nice and praised by family members and friends. They all enjoyed eating the cookies. Full of p r a i s e s. I am so proud and happy to have visited your blog.
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