Coconut filling Baked Mooncake

Coconut filling baked mooncake

 

Yield                            : about 18-20 pieces

Category                     : vegetarian

Mooncake Mold size: 50g

Recipe adapted from Kathrine Kwa                           

Ingredients

Pastry Dough (mooncake skin) 25g each

(A)

300g plain flour

¼ tsp baking soda

(B)

240g golden syrup

75g vegetable oil

½ tbsp. alkaline water (air abu)

Method

1.       Sieve ingredients (a) together and keep aside.

2.       Prepare a bowl. Add golden syrup follow by oil and alkaline water. Mix till well combine.

3.       Now, add the flour into the wet ingredients mix well till becomes a sticky dough. Cover with a clear film and let it rest for 2 hours. After 2 hours, the dough should be soft but not sticky.

4.       After resting, weight dough to 25g each.

Filling 25g each

(A)

350g grated coconut (white part only)

150g caster sugar

(B)Extraction of pandan juice

100ml pandan juice – 100ml water + 4 pandan leaves (cut into pieces) into a blender

(C)

½ tsp salt

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

(D) – 60g fried glutinous rice flour/Goa flour

Method

1.       Mix (A) together and set aside

2.       Add the pandan juice into (A) and mix till evenly cover with pandan juice. Then add salt and oil. Mixed again. Lastly, add (D) by 3 batches. Till the coconut combine like a ball.

3.       Weight each filling to 25g, roll into a ball. Repeat till all finish.

Method of wrapping

1.       Take 25g skin dough; press on your palm into a round flat dough. Take 25g coconut filling place it in the center of the dough and wrap up. Reroll it into a round ball and place it onto a baking tray. Repeat till all finish.

2.       Press each ball with a mooncake mold.

3.     Bake at preheat oven at 180°C for 12 minutes or less according to your oven instruction. Note: must not be too brown.

4.     After baking for 12 minutes, glaze with egg wash and rest for 20-25 minutes. Then bake again for another 10 minutes. Note: I’m using vegetarian glazing.

Ingredients for glazing (non-vegetarian) 1 egg (separate the yolk & white)

1 egg yolk

2 tbsp. egg white

A pinch of salt

Method: Separate 1 egg. Add 2 tbsp. egg white into the egg yolk, then a pinch of salt. Lightly whisk it. Brush on top of baked mooncake.

Ingredients (Vegetarian version) Optional

4 tbsp. sugar

2 tbsp. water

Method: Add water and sugar into a small pot. Boil till sugar dissolve. The sugar should be slightly thickened but not caramelize. Brush on top of the baked mooncake.