Chocolate and Pandan(Screwpine Leaves) Mooncake

I make another batch of mooncake since the Mooncake Festival is around the corner,September 14th 2008 .This time I used Pandan flavor(Screwpine leaves) for the filling and chocolate flavour for the skin.I play around with the ingredients a bit.I add the dough with some chocolate powder to make it's more interesting than regular dough.I think the dough is too soft due to new sugar oil(sugar syrup )I just make.I understand the sugar syrup need to sit for months before I can use.To my surprised ,this flavor taste better than traditional ordinary mooncake.Too bad,I can only get Pandan flavor lotus from Malaysia,wish I can't find pandan flavor lotus in NYC.Yes,I can get lotus filling in NYC,maybe I should add some pandan flavor into it!.

Ingredients:

*Sugar Oil* (cook in advance)

1200 kg sugar

900 gm water

1 lime cut 3 pieces

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*Dough*

600 gm flour

480 gm sugar oil

150 gm oil

3 tbsp coco powder

1 tbsp alkaline water(kan sui in Cantonese)(air abu in Malay)

Method:

1:Cook sugar oil in advance.Cook until the sugar oil turn caramelize or golden brown.To test the sugar oil texture and readiness,use a drop of cool water mix with sugar oil.If the sugar oil separate the water when mix with cool water,then it's ready.Store up to a year in a tight air container when it's cool down.

2:Mix the dough ingredients together and let it proof for one and half hour before moulding.

3:Preheat oven at 250F/130C.Prepare un-greased baking sheet.

4:Divide each filling 40 oz and each dough/skin for 60gm.

5:Wrap each filling with the dough,nicely cover the filling.Press the wrapped mooncake into the mold hard to get the imprint.Knock the mooncake out from the mold if you're using wooden mold .Make sure you knock the mooncake mold on a wooden or tile table or counter edge.

6:Bake the mooncake for 20 minutes.Prepare egg yolk for brushing.Removed the mooncake from oven after 20 minutes baking for brushing.Re-bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.Yield 10-12 regular size mooncake

Note:

This batch of chocolate mooncake is really soft and dark due to the sugar syrup I just cooked.You can see my mooncake was out of shape but it's really moist and tasty.Personally ,my own make mooncake taste better than the one I bought from the store!!.Give a chance to yourself,to see how your mooncake turn out!.Stay tune for more different flavor mooncake!.
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