Nutty Mooncake Delight

🌙✨ Indulge in the delightful world of Nuts & Dried Fruit Mooncake, a traditional Taiwan-style pastry crust masterpiece that promises a fusion of nutty goodness and sweet dried fruits. 🥮🍇 Let’s embark on this culinary adventure, ensuring that you have a mooncake mold to shape these delectable treats into perfection.

Ingredients:

For the Filling:

• Red Bean Filling:

  • 450g Red bean paste

• Dried Fruit & Nuts Filling:

  • 100g Pitted black dates
  • 200cc Water
  • 2 tbsp White grape wine
  • 2 tbsp Wine
  • 2 tbsp Sugar Syrup*
  • 1 tbsp Flour
  • 1 tbsp Glutinous flour
  • 50g Almond
  • 50g Sugar
  • 60g Toasted sesame
  • 80g Walnut
  • 30g Pine nuts
  • 30g Raisins
  • 20g Oil

For Pastry Shine Oil:

• Light Color Pastry Shine Oil:

  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 2 tsp Cooking wine
  • 1/2 tsp Milk

• Dark Color Pastry Shine Oil:

  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 2 tsp Cooking wine
  • 1 Sugar syrup, heated (like caramel)

Instructions:

1. Prepare the Filling:

   • Cook black dates with 200cc water until absorbed.
   • Add white grape wine, wine, sugar syrup, and flours. Cook to thicken.
   • Mash the cooked dates and cut raisins, nuts, and other fruits into small pieces.
   • Mix everything and shape into balls. Let it cool.

2. Make the Pastry Crust:

   • Mix bread flour, cake flour, and baking powder. Sift into a large bowl.
   • Create a hole in the middle and pour sugar water and oil. Mix slowly until the dough is no longer sticky and shiny.
   • Divide the dough into 12 portions, each weighing 25g.

3. Assembly:

   • On each piece of dough, place your desired filling—either red bean paste or the dried fruit/nuts filling.
   • Sprinkle flour in the mooncake mold.
   • Place the mooncake into the mold, press into shape, and remove excess flour.
   • Brush the top with the respective shine oil.
   • Bake at 190°C for 15 minutes.

4. For Red Bean Paste Mooncake:

   • The crust is the same as above.
   • If no mold, shape it round by hand.

5. Cantonese Style Mooncake (Red Bean Paste with Egg Yolk):

   • Pastry:

     • 2 cups Cake flour
     • 1 tbsp Milk powder
     • 2/5 cup Fine sugar
     • 1/8 tsp Baking powder

   • Mix with:

     • 1/3 cup Oil
     • 1/2 tsp Salt
     • 1/3 cup Honey
     • 1 Egg yolk

   • Filling:

     • 900g Red bean paste
     • 20 Salted egg yolks

   • Sieve ingredients (A), dig a hole, add ingredients (B), stir, and knead into a soft dough.

   • Divide into 10 portions.

   • Wrap 2 egg yolks (previously dipped in wine and baked for 5 minutes) with each portion of red bean paste.

   • Press into the mooncake mold, apply beaten egg on the surface, and bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.

🌟 Your kitchen is now infused with the aromatic essence of these Taiwanese Nuts & Dried Fruit Mooncakes and the classic Cantonese Red Bean Paste Mooncakes. Share these delights with loved ones, and let the moonlit celebrations begin! 🌕🎉