I was pondering what sort of filling paste would go nicely with the sweet pandan fragrance snowskin ? Durian may possibly not be for the faint-hearted, but it does make for a moreish ingredient when paired with coconut flavours on InterContinental Singapore’s mooncake menu this year. If you don’t have a mooncake mold, you can acquire a single here or use something else you have on hand. Finest – Delicieuse Princesse’s coconut mooncake ($4.five). Despite the fact that it is also the most high priced, you get your money’s worth since you can SEE the shredded coconut filling and in fact TASTE it. The filling has texture and is not blended with disproportionate amounts of sugar and oil.
Partly simply because of this, they had been less expensive ranging from $2 for a mini mooncake to $four.five for a normal-sized one. Econ-vert is a firm believer of healthy eating, which is why its products use olive oil, organic plant milk and organic coloring. The Mandarin Oriental’s mooncake choice has 1 standout choice this Mid-Autumn festival, the Oriental Mooncake with Silver Lotus Paste, Yuzu and Melon Seeds.
Some of the recipes use unsalted butter or shortening in the dough and/or taro paste, but I personally like the subtle coconut flavor you get from utilizing coconut oil so I employed that rather. I bought some Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich moulds to make my mooncakes, because vendors refused to deliver a CNY 12.00 (less than $two.00) traditional mooncake press for a CNY7.00 delivery fee.
You can adjust the quantity according…I used a dough: filling ratio of 3:7, so for my 50g mooncake mould, dough is 15g filling is 35g. To be the original and most luxurious mooncake filling, lotus paste filling is found in all forms of mooncakes. If you hold the filling ball up to a mooncake mold, the ball ought to be slightly smaller than the opening of the mold. Do not be concerned about freshness mainly because the mini jelly mooncakes are created fresh 1 day beforehand!
If you’re hunting for something to give away, the Fullerton 15 Treasures Premium gift set (S$189) featuring a white lotus seed paste and eight-yolk mooncake surrounded by 14 mini baked mooncakes of assorted flavours looks as impressive as it sounds. Similarly as my earlier mooncake, I baked a ‘flatter’ mooncake 1/2 portion using the regular mooncake mold. The mooncake is described as a mixture of tieguanyin with cheese and coconut paste.
