My homemade moon cake from my first attempt

I cannot believe how simple I can make this at home. Making Bing Pi Moon cake is so easy nowadays since we can always use the premix. A bit of kneading to do though (and with shortening, it is a bit quite oily and messy).

Ingredients you can get from bakery supply shops are:

• 1 pack Mooncake premix @ Rm8.80 (I used brand: BAKER’S ONE)
• 1 pack White Lotus filling @ RM29.90 (I used brand: HOY KEE)
• 70g shortening
• Some ice water
• Flavouring – fresh squeezed Pandan Juice
• Flavouring – mashed dragon fruit (you can see biji-biji on them)
• Mould – Plastic Bing Pi Mould (most easiest to use)
• Mickey Mouse cookie cutters

Method to make Bing Pi dough (instruction on the package itself)

1. First you need to add the shortening and ice water to the premix
2. Knead till you feel its elastic
3. Cover and let it rest in fridge for at least 30mins

As for the filling-roll them into balls.

First time I bought White Lotus. Very expensive but this brand is very good because it is not sweet at all.

Cheaper options will be red beans / lotus paste if you just wanna play with it. You can even use any paste you like or make your own paste if you have the time.

How to shape the mooncake

1. Divide ready cold dough into balls. Press them flat.
2. Wrap the filling with your dough.
3. Shape them into balls before putting them carefully into your mould.
4. Press them out (if you use mooncake mould) or carefully remove it from the cookie cutter after you stamp the face

Many recipes you see on book call to measure the dough (about 60% dough, 40% filling) but I did not measure them because my mould sizes vary. Just agak-agak.

My perfectly shaped moon cake

The experience was really amazing. Never I though I would be able to make my own moon cake as pretty and perfect as above. We did not get it right when we tried it initially, but since the dough is so flexible, we can always reshape it into a ball (try your best to keep the filling inside) and try to stamp print again.

My Mickey and Minnie Bing Pi Moon cake

If you are using cookie cutters like this, it is really not that easy because the filling would run out when you need to shape some parts to Mickey’s ears. However, if you do not get it right for the first time, you can always roll it back into balls and slowly reshape them into the mould again.

Though the ingredients are quite pricey, still it is cheaper to make your own  because you get more and can give away these beautiful moon cake as gifts to your friends.

*Si-beh shiok* Macam playing play-doh with your kids eh!

Mickey & Minnie Mouse Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
100g butter (I used Golden Churn)
80g castor sugar
1tsp condense milk
1 egg yolk
100g self raising flour
100g plain flour (I added more until they are not too soft to stamp Mickey Mouse shape)
20g corn flour

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar
2. Add in egg yolk and condense milk
3. Fold in flour. Mix well (just beat evenly at slow speed)
4. Keep dough in fridge for at least 30mins
5. Roll dough and cut into shapes
5. Bake at preheated oven at 170C degree for 15mins

Although they are delicious, no doubt they are heaty too. Can’t eat too much of these otherwise my hubby would gonna need help from his Spawn supplement.