Mid-Autumn Festival 2021

The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history dating back over 3000 years. The holiday is celebrated with lanterns, mooncakes and festivities. We have some resources listed below to help you celebrate the festival.

Lansdowne Centre hosted a virtual Mooncake baking class on Saturday September 18, 2021 which is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AFFszdDyTo for viewing. The recipe is listed below so you can pre-purchase your ingredients and follow along with the video.

Red Bean Salted Egg Yolk Puff Pastry Mooncake Recipe
Equipment:
Rolling pin
Scale
Baking tray
Parchment paper
Pastry brush
Wet Pastry:
All-purpose flour 105g
Water 50g
Sugar 12g
Vegetable shortening 37g
• Mix all ingredients together, knead until soft and shiny, divide into 10pcs, each piece approximately 19-20g
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Oil Pastry:
Cake flour 55g
Vegetable Shortening 100g
• Mix all ingredients together, knead well; set aside for 5 minutes, divide into 10 pcs, each piece approximately 14 – 15g
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Cooked Salted egg yolk 5 pcs
(Steam salted egg yolk until cooked, one day ahead, cut into halve, set aside)
Red Bean paste 250g
Egg wash for brushing
• Divide red bean paste into 10 pcs, use scale to weigh red bean paste; each piece approximately 24 – 25g
• Use 1 pc of red bean paste wrap with 1 half of salted egg yolk; set aside
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Puff Pastry Mooncakes:
• Use 1 piece of wet pastry wrap with 1 piece of oil pastry, use a rolling pin to roll into a round disk, roll up
• Turn the dough vertical facing you, use rolling pin to roll into a round disk, place a piece of red bean paste stuffing over dough then wrap into a ball shape; place mooncakes on a baking tray lined with parchment paper; brush a layer of egg wash over mooncakes
• Preheat oven to 375F /190C, bake for 19 – 20 minutes or until golden brown, remove from oven and let cool completely. Enjoy!

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is hosting a wide range of festival activities from September 21 to 26, 2021. Traditional arts and crafts, mooncake demonstrations, tea ceremonies and opera are some of the scheduled activities.

Make some lanterns with tutorials listed at Shopee Singapore and Shopee Malaysia.