Mooncakes & More Mooncakes
Had some friends over this evening to make some snowskin mooncakes together. There were 4 of us in total, so each of us made a different colour. All colours except for the green one (which is green tea flavour) had white lotus paste wrapped in them.
Aya did the white ones, Fen the green ones, Bun the pink ones and I did the yellow ones. We tried with both the plastic pink moulds and the more advanced yellow moulds as seen in this post, and all of us concluded that the yellow mould is not only easier to use, but also produces much nicer mooncakes.
A real pity that the yellow mould I managed to get are sold out in both the Hougang and Holland Village branches. If anyone knows which other branch still has that particular design, please let me know, ‘coz Aya and Bun want to get it so badly. 
So anyhow, I made a trip down to Kwong Cheong Thye and came out of the shop over $100 poorer. :cry: I’ve gotten the necessities to bake the traditional mooncakes on my own based on the recipe I’d gotten from the baking class I attended at Creative Culinaire last Saturday. My new wooden moulds are now being treated in oil bath overnight. I intend to bake some ‘piglets’ for The Hubby tomorrow.
I also have some commercial mooncakes in my fridge now, including Shang Palace’s birdnest custard mooncakes and Eater Palace’s traditional yam mooncakes. The latter is a good substitute for those from Crown Prince’s Long Jiang, although in my opinion, it is still not as good as the original. Oh well, you can’t have the cake and eat it as well sometimes. Be thankful there is a close substitute.
Cadenze,
Do u find Eater’s Place yam mooncakes a bit oily? I tried at the Taka stall, too oily, not sure if it’s because it’s freshly fried then. It’s sad Crown Hotel is no longer selling them
Hi Angie,
I find Eater Palace’s not so fragrant and the flaky skin not as nice too. As for oily, I thought it’s quite ok.
Ya, it’s really a pity. But I was thinking the chefs from the restaurant has to look for other jobs if it has ceased operations. Maybe wait for a year, and they will emerge again next year. From another restaurant perhaps.
Hi, real beautiful pastries & cakes u have whipped up there! But more importantly, you cook for ur dogs! Wondering if u’d know of any recipes for a non-bake cheesecake for a dog that’s allergic to just about everything?! Yikes.
My dog is coming 1 this oct but having trawled the whole WWW, i can’t seem to find a simple recipe to do up a cake where both the family & dog can tuck into.
Hihi, you can get the yellow mould at Simei branch. i got mine there after reading your post! =D
Cadenze,
Thanks for the info, appreciate it. I think I’ll give it a miss, it’s hard to find one that matches Crown Hotel’s. Crossing my fingers that they will emerge again
Liz, a cheesecake for your dog? I’ll look through my ‘database’ and see if I can find anything. But mostly, things fit for our furkids’ consumption are usually a little too bland for us humans. I’ll post it up and email you as well if I find something. Then you have to look through the ingredients and see if it’s suitable for your dog.
Joelle, thanks for the info! I’ll let my friends know.
Angie, I’m also crossing my fingers. Mid-Autumn Festival just isn’t the same anymore (for me) without their mooncakes.
Hi,
I think if you are still looking for mooncake moulds, Ang Mo Kio and Geylang branch of Phoon Huat still has them
Hi cadenze,
ur mooncakes are made using the mini mooncake mould or the big ones ? i went simei branch yesterday.. only left the bigger moulds.. the small ones are sold out
joelle,
can you help to see the number on the yellow mould that u bought from simei? is it the 10?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Cyn and Jess, thanks for the update. My friends are actually looking for the smaller moulds. If I’m not wrong, size 10.
Yikes, forget about what I said about AMK and Geylang branch cos I just realised that you are looking for a particular design and I dun think they have it cos left the big ones only
It’s ok Cyn. Thanks a lot! I’ll let my friends know.
Hi cadenze…
how many grams of snow skin premix.. did u use to make these 18 mooncakes ?
Hi Jess,
Think we used up 200g of premix.
hi cadenze.. thanks.
oh i bought the 1kg premix… oh no.. then i can make up to 80plus mini snowskin mooncakes.. :p
Hi Jess,
Gotta give or take a little coz it’s dependent on the size of your mould and how thin/thick the snowskin you like.
Hi Cadenze,
I saw the smaller moulds (different pattern) and also different design from the yellow one we use @ Jurong East outlet. PH has another mould which is like making pineapple tarts, it pushes the whole mooncake out together with the pattern.
Hi Elyn,
Sounds like another type of mould. I think my hubby will go crazy if I buy some more mooncake moulds!
Thanks for sharing. I’ll drop by Hougang outlet tomorrow perhaps and take a look. Hopefully I can resist the temptation to buy it.
hi elyn.
wow got nice design mooncake mould.. i wanna go buy too.. hehe.
hi cadenze..
ask u.. which brand of colouring & favouring u buy. ? cos yesterday i try putting the yam flavoured colouring.. the color seems to be a bit light.
Hi Jess,
I use banana flavour for just a little of fragrance. Haven’t tried yam flavour. I get mine from Phoon Huat.
If it’s too light, maybe you try putting in a little more of the flavouring to make the colour darker?
Otherwise you might wanna try putting in yam paste in the mooncake and putting purple colour for the skin instead of a colouring which has flavour as well. Think the colouring might work better than one which has both colour and flavour?
I found a place which sells yam paste. It’s at http://www.teckaikkee.com/default.asp.
hi cadenze.. thanks a lot.. i will go and get some banana essence from my aunt… oh got yam paste… i wanna go and buy.
do u have a cooler bag.. ? i wanna buy a cooler bag. so that i put my snowskin mooncakes..but don’t know go where buy. thanks in adv
Hi Jess,
Nope I don’t have a cooler bag. I think it’s ok if the mooncakes are out of the fridge for a while, just so long that it’s not in direct sunlight.
I know a shop in HKG sells cooler bags. But it’s kinda ex to buy from them and pay for shipping. Anyhow here it is… http://www.bakingwarehouse.com/2004-04/shop_2005_03.asp?cat=23
Hi cadenze… thanks a lot..
i think HKG is too far..hehehe .. think tomorrow i got Carrefour or NTUC to see whether they got sell.. hehehe Thanks
dear aya.. im so sorry i didn’t check this comments board. er.. where do i check the size number? its not written on the yellow mould leh.. =x
Hi Joelle,
The number is somewhere on the mould.
But nevertheless i went to the simei branch just this tuesday. they ran out of the size 10 moulds.
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