Coffee Mooncake Biscuit With Dried Figs & Dates

Coffee Mooncake Biscuit With Dried Figs & Dates

Mooncake Biscuit With Dried Cranberry & Candied Kumquat

We will be celebrating the Mooncake Festival on this coming 22nd of September, Wednesday night. Wow, time just flies... isn't it! I remember last year I made quite a number of jelly mooncakes for the celebration. And I have missed out this one here... mooncake biscuits! So, I'm not going to miss this again this year.

And here's my mooncake biscuits for the coming celebration.

Ingredients for Coffee Mooncake Biscuit :

250ml golden syrup

110ml peanut oil

1 tspn alkaline water

450gm all purpose flour

1/4 tspn baking soda

1 tbsp instant coffee powder (mix with 1/2 tbsp hot water)

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Method :

- combine syrup, peanut cooking oil and alkaline water in a big bowl, mix well.

- keep cover and leave aside for an hour.

- then stir in flour, baking soda and coffee mixture untill well mixed.

- again cover and leave aside for about 2 hours.

- divide dough into 25gm dough ball each for mini size cake mould.

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Ingredients for Plain Mooncake Biscuit :

250ml golden syrup

110ml peanut cooking oil

1 tspn alkaline water

430gm all purpose flour

1/4 tspn baking soda

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Method ~ follow as the above.

Assemble Dough :

- at the same time divide filling into 25gm dough ball each.

- slightly flatten pastry dough between a plastic sheet.

- wrap filling with the flattened pastry and seal well.

- slightly coat the ball dough with flour and get ready for moulding.

- finally, bake at 175'c for 10 mins then remove and brush with egg glaze.

- Then bake at 165'c for another 10mins or untill brown.

- leave cool completely before serving.

*Egg glaze : one egg beaten

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Ingredients for Dried Figs & Dates Filling :

500gm lotus paste

100gm walnut, roasted & chopped

100gm sunflower seeds, roasted

50gm dried figs, chopped

50gm dried dates, chopped

(mix all ingredients into big dough and then divide into 25gm each.)

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Ingredients for Candied Kumquat & Dried Cranberry Filling :

500gm lotus paste

100gm candied kumquat, chopped

100gm dried cranberry, chopped

70gm sesame seeds, roasted

(mix all ingredients to form a big dough and divide into 25gm each.)

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I think the homemade ones are fantastic especially the thin crust. I like it very much. Frankly, I haven't taken these for quite a long time. All because of the crust! The store bought ones are much thicker and is very very sweet. Or you may try replacing the syrup with pure natural honey. I'm sure it tastes as splendid. Hope you will enjoy this and happy baking!