Of Alf and Jabba the Hut...

**This is halal, just the shape is NOT :p**

This reminded me of Alf... No?



How about these??? Jabba the Hut!



LOL sighhh that was how my so called Moon Cake Festivity Biscuits turned out! Will experiment more with this, well, when I'm not lazy.

I've used the recipe from Famous Cuisine magazine and it's quite easy peasy as the ingredients including the golden syrup are easily available at the baking supply stores, otherwise I nearly flipped when I read that I need to store homemade golden syrup for 2 months before I can use it! The dough is made the day before and I kept them in the fridge. Remove the dough and leave to soften a bit in room temperature.

Next, I measured out the fillings ie. dau yoong (I've no idea what's this in English) and dau sar (red bean) - both also store bought; and roll them into balls. I kept them refrigerated whilst I measure out the dough portions.

For the freestyle round piggy or rather Jabba the Hut, the filling is 20g each and the dough is 30g. The large wooden piggy mould that I've gotten is best fitted with 50g fillings and 60g dough. Anything more than this, will spilled over at the base and won't turn out so nice looking. The eyes were fitted in by boiboi with halved black beans (noticed how some of them looking cock eyed hehehe). To shape the fillings easier, just need to oiled my hands a bit. For the dough, use some flour to prevent sticking.



Once everything were measured, then it's rather simple especially those moulded with the wooden piggy (pre-oiled). All I need to do was roll the dough slightly elongated in my floured hands and wrapped the fillings with it. Next, flour the mould generously and pour out the flour. Place the dough into the mould and slowly spread the dough around to fit everything inside the mould. After that whacked the mould a couple of times on the table and the dough will come out perfectly. Place biscuit on a lined tray.

For the free style version, roll dough into round shape and wrap it around the filling. Place on a tray and repeat with the rest. Next, shape the snouts, ears and tails to decorate the rounds into a piggy. Press in the eyes. The reason I've gotten Jabba the Hut instead of piggy was the dough rounds got soften and sorta melted at the bottom. I guess I need to refrigerate these whilst I tend to other things like what I did! I went and shaped the rest of the doughs in the wooden mould before placing everything into the oven. Thinking of saving some hot energy by stuffing all 3 trays in on go *stick out tongue*

Moon Festival Cutey Biscuits

Ingredients:
600g low protein flour/plain flour
600g golden syrup
1 1/2 tbsp alkaline water
100g peanut oil

Topping (beaten):
1 egg + 1 egg yolk

Method:

1. Mix golden syrup with peanut oil and alkaline water, gradually add in flour, mix well till combined and soft.

2. Wrap the soft dough with cellophane paper, rest for 1 day or overnight. (All I did was cover the mixing bowl with cling wrap and
stored in the fridge overnight.)

3. Divide dough into many portions, form into rounds. Dust some plain flour into the biscuit moulds, then press douigh into mould. Next, invert onto baking tray.

4. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 10 mins. Remove from oven, leave to cool, and brush some beaten egg on the surface, and continue baking for another 10 mins until golden in colour. Leave to cool before serving.

Ref: Famous Cuisine Vol. 51 July-Aug 2008, page 7

Tips:
1. For freestyle shaped biscuits, store dough in fridge in between shaping the biscuits to prevent dough from sagging or get out of shape.

2. Brush the egg wash evenly to achieve even colouring of the biscuits. Otherwise, it will look patchy.

3. Do not over bake, watch the biscuits in the oven after the egg wash. Remove from oven immediately once it's golden in colour which may be less than 10 mins stated in the recipe depending on your oven. Else, the biscuits will crack or streaks will form on the egg wash (looks like stretch marks).


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