Chocolate Mooncakes

When my friend Lena told me that her family loved these chocolate mooncake, i had to get the recipe from her and with some tweaking, got to make some of these cuties. I used the moulds that are meant for hard boiled eggs and they turned out so well.

Ingredients:

100 ml water

70 gm brown sugar

10 gm cocoa powder

40 gm unsweetened dark chocolate

20 gm shortening

1/2 tsp chocolate emulco

60 gm koh fun

2 tbsp wheat starch(tung mein fun) add 2 tbsp of hot boiling water

2 tbsp of steamed cake flour

Filling:

300 gm lotus /red bean/mung bean paste

60 gm melted unsweetened dark chocolate

1/2 tsp chocolate emulco

Method:

Put 100 ml water and 70 gm brown sugar in a bowl and microwave for 1 minute. Stir to dissolve sugar.

Pour a little at a time to the cocoa powder and mex well.

Put chocolate and shortening in a bowl. microwave for 1 minute, stir and if chocolate is not totalling melted, microwave another 30 seconds.

Using a bigger mixing bowl, mix the wheat starch with the hot boiling water and stir well. Add iun the koh fun and steamed flour. Mix to combine.

Add in the sugar/cocoa powder mixture and mix.

Add in the melted chocolate and chocolate emulco. Knead well until dough does not stick to the fingers.

Leave covered while you mix the filling.

Filling:

Mix all the ingredients for the filling until well combine.

To make the mooncakes.

To fit the hard boiled moulds - weigh 20 gm filling and 15 gm chocolate skin.
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