I've made a batch of Gung Tzai Pheng (Moon Festival Cutey Biscuits) this year and they all turned out quite good. I experimented with various molds and found those like peach or even angkoo are the easiest to mold the biscuits as I do not have to spend time ensuring the nooks and corners of complicated shapes like goldfish or khei loon (a type of Chinese lion) are properly filled with dough. So the moral of the story is - don't buy molds that looked super cute with lots of designs on them :p
I did the angkoo one just for fun cause GFAD made some angkoo kuih using square mooncake molds :p
This biscuit is quite easy peasy but just tedious in terms of having to weigh the dough and fillings before assembling them. Recipe can be found here and here.
This year, Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on 22 September. You'll still have some time left to make these cutie biscuits!
Note: There is no need to refrigerate the dough! It'll make your dough "melt".
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I was too lazy to learn how to bake gung zai peng or mooncake. So, I just make jelly mooncake, hehe...
ReplyDeleteBabe ah, I think you and Chris can be our local's version of Domestic Goddesses lah. Happy Mid Autumn Festival!
ReplyDeletelooks cute!
ReplyDeleteThis cutie biscuits reminds me of my childhood days. Every moon cake festival my Mum's friend will make me a huge piece of Lion biscuits. Thanks for the post:D
ReplyDeleteLittle Inbox, I personally feel this is easier compared with Jelly ones. Try this next time.
ReplyDeleteKekeke thanks Jason
Thanks Jess
Hi Veronica, thanks for coming by, with the recipe, I think you can make some your own.
Haha...but the fish one is so cute though!
ReplyDeletehehe hopefully i get to make enough time for myself to make mooncakes this few days! :D
ReplyDeleteYour angkoo mooncake is too cutey cutey :-)
ReplyDeleteHopefully can find time these next few days to make some baked ones ourselves.
LCOM, yeah but the previous piggy was better :p
ReplyDeleteGood luck then Click2 Culinary & Nate&Annie
Tmr is mooncake festival le, i haven't even eaten 1 piece of mooncake yet....too bz with personal matters....haih
ReplyDeleteIf I saw these, I would have bought the wooden moulds and made them, instead of making snowskin mooncakes!l!! I always loved having this when I was a kid and have missed them dearly ever since....
ReplyDeleteDC, you'll have your chance one
ReplyDeletePleasure Monger, perhaps you can try this next year then