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Monday, October 02, 2006, 9:03 pm
Well, you see, the Mid Autumn Festival is close by, you see moon cakes everywhere. There are a bajillion brands, from different bakery and restaurant and everyone have different opinion on which brand is better. Moon cake's origin is a boring story. Let's skip that. I'm here to talk about how to make moon cake yourself. Giving you an extra boost in your give for this mid autumn festival. Instead of "Oh I bought this fucking expensive mooncake from (insert_bakery_name_here) for you. Enjoy it," you got the power to say, "I personally make these sets of moon cake for you with my heart, you better enjoy it!! *grin*" This move also adds 72 points of positive affinity points towards your love one(s).
Oh yea, before we start, click here for a picture of what a good mooncake looks like...
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Ingredient needed for the mooncake (icy cold skin variety):
-The Skin of the mooncake, made of various ingredient I dont know.
-The paste, the sun flower seeds, the scale (paste, anything you like, in this case in the photo, its lotus paste with green pandan colouring, lotus seed, the red bean, chocolate or whatever paste is alright as long as you dare to eat it).
-The mold, a shape of a mooncake prefered. Of course, you can try using those sunflower, dolphin, penguin, fruit shape molds for ice cubes too.
-A roller to flatten things, the things you see in various childhood cartoon where housewife use it to chase and run after someone and hit the poor thing with, that, the weapon the housewife is using.
-Lots of modified edible starchs.
-A pair of hands, common sense and sense of creativity.
But where to get all those supplies above?
Bakery store, duh!
To make a 180g icy skin mooncake variant.
1. Firstly, weight 70g of Mooncake skin paste, then roll it into a ball, then flatten it into the size of about your palm, make sure the skin is thin but not easily tear. Ah, make sure you do this on a floured surface so the paste doesnt stick on the surface you work on. Common sense friend, common sense. Ah, also, wash your hand before you start. Common sense :D
2. Weight 110g of filling paste and roll it into a ball.
3. Flour the mold so the mold will be coated with it and the paste with not stick in them.
4. Put the filling paste in the middle of the skin paste and wrap the filling, slowly and make sure you dont tear the skin. If you do this wrongly, the whole thing will be gone case.
5. After having the ball of skin wraped filling ball of paste, stick it into the floured mold that is prepared earlier. Whack it hard, yet gently so the ball of paste will stick into every corner of the mold, tracing its shape. Be gently enough not to break the skin.
6. After the paste is nicely shaped into the mold, now whack the mold hard so the moon cake come out evenly so it doesnt go out of shape when it came out.
7. Ta da! Mooncake done. Blow off the flour, put in the fridge for 3 hours or overnight. best serve chill with hot chinese tea. Alternatively, 8-10 degree celcius Chardonnay/Rose wine, or 5 degree celcius Champaign/Sparkling wine/ice wine.
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Here is some samples of what Lord Sendo the Great has done. One of them, as you can see, is a gone case since the skin is tear on the side due to unevenly exit. Poor thing, but who cares, they are gonna end up in Sendo's stomuch anyway.
*remark, the link is for my personal amusement and gaming experience. Many sorry for if you are not interested, and many thanks if u join the game as well. :D
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