Mid Autumn Festival Project #1

CENDOL Palm Sugar Jelly Mooncake

Ingredients for mock jelly egg yolks

A:    1 tsp agar-agar powder

    40gm caster sugar

    1/8 tsp salt

    150ml water

    100gm carrot (diced, boiled till cooked and pureed)

For Filling

B:    1 tsp agar-agar powder

50gm palm sugar

1/8 tsp salt

75ml concentrated coconut milk

150ml water

1 blade pandan leaf (knotted)

For the Skin

C:    ½ tbsp gar-agar powder

    70gmcaster sugar

1/8 tsp salt

100ml concentrated coconut milk

250ml water

D:    120gm cendol (drained off water)

Method:

1. Combine ingredient (A) into a pot. Bring to boil, Turn off heat, strain solution. Pour into small ice-cube moulds. Cool then keep chilled till it set. Unmould jelly egg yolk when needed.
   
2. Bring ingredient (B) to boil. Turn off heat and remove pandan leaf. Strain solution and set aside.
   
3. Spoon a little of no. (2) into small moulds. Let it set a little, gently, place in a mock egg yolk. Fill in more of No.(2) to cover mock egg yolk. Set, unmould, trim edges and set aside.
   
4. Bring ingredient (C) to a boil. Turn off heat, cool solution.
   
5. Spoon a little ingredient (D) into moulds. Spoon in some no.(4), let it set a little. Add in no.(3), a little cendol and no.(4).
   
6. Set wll no. (5) and keep chilled. Ready to serve J