Mooncakes
With about two weeks away to the mid-autumn festival (中秋节), this is now the excellent time to make your personal mooncakes. The snow skin mooncake was created by a bakery in Hong Kong, mainly because the classic mooncakes have been created with salted duck egg yolks and lotus seed paste, resulting in incredibly high sugar and oil content material. With its dark outer layer and gold embellishments, the Mandarin Oriental Singapore’s ultra-decadent mooncake features a filling of egg yolk, lotus and truffle oil. It’s powder soft skin is wrapped about a creamy white lotus paste with a champagne truffle in its centre.
When the durian filling have firmed up, in a massive bowl, place vegetable shortening, sifted glutinous rice flour and icing sugar. I use creamy custard filling for this year’s snow skin mooncake, as I just cannot reject its smooth, milky and creamy taste. And to avoid obtaining clumps …
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