Blue Cheese & Nori Flakes Shanghai Mooncake...& A Surprise!

Hey, Happy Mooncake Festival everyone! Yeap, today is our mid autumn festival and many of the Chinese families here are going to celebrate it with loads of food, fruits and mooncakes tonight. Guess what! I'm going to have something different this year.... instead of having the traditional kind of mooncake I'm making something fun to enjoy tonight.

Here's my shanghai mooncake with special blue cheese flavour & nori flakes flavour crust and a twist of the fillings with the addition of pineapple jam instead of using salted egg yolks.

Ingredients for Nori Flakes crust :
250gm butter
150gm icing sugar
1 egg
380gm all purpose flour
60gm custard powder
3 tbsp nori flakes

Method :
#Refer here and add in nori flakes after the dough is formed, knead till combined.

Ingredients for Blue Cheese crust :
250gm butter
150gm icing sugar
1 egg
380gm all purpose flour
60gm custard powder
20-30gm blue cheese, thinly sliced

Method :
#Refer here and add in blue cheese after the dough is formed, knead till combined.

FOR ASSEMBLE :
(1) use a portion of douyong/lotus paste wrap around a portion of pineapple jam.
(2) divide crust dough into 70gm per portion each (around 13pcs).
(3) then wrap filling with one portion of crust dough and seal nicely.
(4) brush on egg wash and top with either nori or cheddar cheese.
(5) finally, bake at 180-185'C for 20 mins.
(6) cool completely before slicing.

#you need around 520gm of pineapple jam for 20gm each portion & 1.1kg of douyong paste/lotus paste for 40gm each portion.

I have given away some of these mooncakes for testing and the feedback is totally unbelieveable. As anyone whoever tried blue cheese before, I'm sure you're going to fall in love with it and for non cheese lover....still nori is another refreshing flavour for all. Oh oh and not forgetting about the sweet & sour fillings.....mamamia.....you will sure salivate! haha..... Hope you guys will love these. Enjoy & have loads of fun!

WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL !
#I'm sending this to Shaz @ Muhibbah Malaysian Monday.