Basic Mooncake Dough - Cranberry Orange Peel Melon Seed Mooncake

Basic Mooncake Dough

Ingredients
(A)
250ml mooncake golden syrup
110ml peanut oil
1tsp alkaline water (air abu)
(B)
430gm plain flour, shifted
1/4 tsp sodium bicarbonate

Filling combine all the ingredients
200g dried cranberry, chopped
70g orange peel or mixed peel, chopped
100g melon seed
550g lotus paste

1egg for brushing the dough

Method
Prepare dough
1) Combine (A) in the mixer bowl using speed 2 till all well combine.
2) Cover with cling film and set aside for 1 hr.
3) After 1 hr add (B) to form a dough. If the dough is sticky add 1 or 2 tbsp of flour. Cover with cling film and set aside for 1 hour before filling and mould.
4) Bake at 175c for 10 minutes. Remove and egg wash. Put back into oven for another 10minutes at 160c.
5) Remove from oven and cool.

Moulding
-Take the dough and fill the mould. Remove from mould and weight. Use total weight divide by 2.50% for skin & 50% filling or 60/40.
-Remember to flour your mould each time you mould the biscuit.
-Roll the dough into round shape and wrap the filling onto it. Then press into the mould.




Machine used: KitchenAid Artisan mixer KSM150.