Yuu's Food Diary

 My next mooncakes making is 'Piggy Mooncake'. My all times favorite types of mooncakes. It tastes very simple. It kinda tastes like molasses soft cookies. Even making this is very simple and easy. Not much of the ingredients and techniques you have to know. All you can do is mix everything, rest the dough, shape it, and bake.  Although it is called piggy mooncakes, in Chinese 猪仔饼/公仔饼, you can literally shape anything you like. Back in the days, what I saw was they shape into a pig and pack with a net shape packaging. But now, you can see it comes in different shapes. Well, since I don't have any fancy mooncake mold and I just do in a very little batch, so I just shape it with my bare hand. The most simple shape I can think of is fish.  The recipe I used is from Kitchen 101 but cut in half and a little modified. Ingredients: 100g low flour 60g golden syrup 1tsp alkaline water 3tbsp of beaten egg (for egg wash) 6 chocolate chips for eyes deco (can make 6 fishes) Steps: Mix...

The mid-Autumn festival is around the corner. Something that makes me shock is that today's people sell festival food tend to earlier. The mid-autumn festival is on October 1st but I already saw people making mooncakes and sell them at the end of July! What?! Can mooncake keep that long? Or people are just eager to eat one? Maybe they open slots for people's orders? I don't know, maybe both? Anyway, as usual, each year I try to make mooncakes for my own self for much healthier and cheaper! You know, there days a piece of mooncake is expensive! And always, mine mooncake can't keep that long and mold easily. Not sure my storing method or making method went wrong but still try to make a small amount for myself.  The recipe is somewhere I found online, write it down and do a little bit modify. I do not claim this recipe as my own.  Ingredients: Sweet potato paste: 3 palm-size sweet potatoes (about 10cm long, 5cm wide) 4tsp granulated sugar 1tbsp condensed milk 3tbsp corn oi...