Traditional mooncakes

Making traditional Chinese baked mooncakes can be overwhelming but you can do it with this recipe and straightforward steps. I use lotus seed paste, sweet red bean paste, and meat floss for the filling. Accompanied by step-by-step photos and a video so you can make this successfully at home too.

A mooncake (月饼)is a traditional Chinese pastry that is eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations. As this pastry is so often associated with the festival, the event is also called the Moon Cake Festival. We’ve collected 16 Easy Mooncake Recipes that you can make at home this year!

Ingredients: 150g Top flour 500g Lotus Paste 100g Melon Seeds (Optional) 95g golden syrup 28g Olive oil 1 tsp alkaline water Directions: In a bowl, mix golden syrup, olive oil & alkaline water well. Then sieve in the flour, using the spatula to combine all together. Knead into a dough & cover with film wrap, set aside for 40 mins. In another bowl, mix the lotus paste & melon seeds. Roll the paste (100g each) into a shape of a ball & set aside. Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Prepare the egg wash…

This year's mid-autumn festival is indeed a special occasion. My better half is able to celebrate this Chinese festival with us, just in time before he leaves for the airport for a mid-night flight :) The next 'biggest' thing for me is, I have finally attempted to make traditional baked mooncakes! Even though I know in advance that I will be hosting this month's Aspiring Baker's event, I didn't think that I would be ready to make any traditional moocncakes when the theme was firmed up. I…

Mooncake making is fun and satisfying. Once you gather all the ingredients that you need, you will feel it's not that difficult after all. Just need some patience to weigh all the ingredients in order to get uniform sizes, gently wrap up all the ingredients and carefully stamp with the mould, then you are ready to send into the oven to bake. Traditional mooncake is the classic mooncake that we had been eating since young. And the fillings were basically either lotus paste or red bean paste…

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Nothing can beat the taste of homemade mooncakes. This recipe shows you how to make traditional mooncakes with easy steps. A video is also included.