I am food enthusiast who dreams to emulate Antony Bourdianor to do similar work sometime in the future. I know it is not possible in the near future but I will definitely try when time permits. So right now I try various cuisines in my small kitchen with my own input to make it suitable to my family’s taste buds. I like to take part in various challenges and when I saw the challenge to make either spiral moon cake, scallion pancake with wonton soup or sweet or sour Cantonese chicken from International Food Challenge created bySaraswathi and Shobana .I decided to give moon cake a try.
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Ingredients
Water dough
75g /1/2 cup all purpose flour
13g/1 tablespoon shortening
7g/1/2tablespoon butter
35g /2 ½ tablespoon of water + 2-3 drops white vinegar
Oil Dough
65g/ ½ cup Cake flour
26g/ 2 tablespoon shortening
Directions
Water dough
Rub shortening with flour until it looks like breadcrumbs.
Add in water mix together to form smooth dough. Cover and rest for 30 mins.
Divide dough into 2 pieces.
Oil Dough
In another bowl add cake flour, shortening and oil . Rub shortening gradually into the cake flour to form soft dough. Add few drops of gel food coloring while making the dough. Cover to rest for 30 minutes.
Divide dough into 2 pieces.
Spread the water dough ball into circle and place the oil dough ball inside. Wrap oil dough into water dough and flatten.
Roll out into a longish flat thin piece. Roll up like a Swiss roll.
Turn 90deg and spread it into flat thin piece and again roll up into a Swiss roll.
Cut each roll into 3 equal pieces with a sharp knife.
With the spiral side( cut side) facing down, flatten and roll. Wrap with savory moon bean filling.
Savory moong bean filling
Tip :
1. When rolling into a round, roll the edges of the dough thinner to make it easier to seal.
2. If your shortening is hard, soften it in the microwave before using.
I am linking this to International Food challenge #1
This is Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
love the spirals and savory filling…
Thanks sangeetha.
Blue moon cake looks delicious I saw many members put up their post but I must say savory filling sounds really good to me.
Meena, I am forced to make everything blue nowadays. Yes savory filling makes my hubby to taste test.
Wow awesome 🙂
Thanks Rekha
simply awesome and delicious looking moon cakes. Must have been a hit in your household. Wonderful pics as well.
Deepa
Beautiful blue cake!
Love the savory filling, beautifully done.
impressive all from scratch
lovely color..simply superb cake..
Awesome , beautiful color… well tried savoury version..
innovative and droolworthy.
this absolutely looks awesome… love the savory filling…
They looks simply awesome! :)very beautiful spiral moon cake
wow its looks so yummy and colorful… bookmarked it 🙂
so bright blue !! lovely…and nice filling too.
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Wow Swathi, the blue color is really stunning and wonderfully made spiral moon cake…
Love the colour. The cake looks so innovative 🙂
lovely color of moon cake… love it…
Awesome looking mooncake..Looks so flaky with all the layers.
delicious and inviting
Lovely cake with healthy filling Swathi
lovely blue color.. refreshing.. Tempting too
Wonderful moon cake Swathi, colour ‘blue’ looks so gentle and rich on a cake 🙂
Those look awesome! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Happy Valley Chow
truly divine..love ur clicks
In blue those rolls are simply innovative
Swathi,it looks beautiful,love the blue color..yummy
WOW! These are absolutely amazing! and so pretty!
Wow love those cute colored cake…Delcious clicks!
Interesting color and a fun dessert. I enjoy the pastry of moon cakes.
This is so awesome, very new to me and I like the bright blue color..
Such a pretty shade of blue, Swathi…filling with the savory stuffing is a superb idea. Would love to taste this. So festive and delicious! Thank you for your sweet and caring words on my blog!
Such beauties! I don’t think I have ever had savoury mooncakes before – so so intersting!
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com
Love the coloufull moon cake.very helpful post.
I was interested to learn about Mooncakes, Swathi. Yours are beautiful. I like blue too 🙂 What an interesting and delicious treat!
wow!they look colourful and beautiful…
These are so pretty! I love that vibrant color and I bet they are tasty too! Something I always wanted to try.
Wow!!! moon cake looks pretty good…cute little moons on the plate!! love its color!