DIY - agar-agar mooncake

30-31 Aug 09

It is always my dream to do something special on handmade items and DIY stuff..it is my dream to make some DIY cards to sell, to design the paperbag for some shops, to design the wedding gift or make some wedding souvenirs..but..kinda sad that i dont have much time for that..

looking at some cupcake blog, i think of wanted to make cupcake myself..but, i think cupcake need high skill and surely need to follow a class to do those creative and cute design on the cupcake..hmm..maybe next time..

This is my first attempt on making the agar-agar mooncake..i got an idea on how to do the mooncake initially, however, from my experience mummy, she said,,everything must follow the recipe..so that everything will be correct..so..end up, mummy and i went to popular to buy a agar-agar recipe for it. Once i get home, straight away, i take out all of the ingredients for the agar-agar..following the recipe, i started to make the egg york, then the centre part of the mooncake, then the outer ring of the mooncake...it is quite time consuming to wait for the 3 layers to be ready. i need to wait for the egg york to be hard, then the 2nd layer, then the 3rd layer..From the recipe, it looks like it is easy..however, it is not as easy in the reality :p

My first attempt, failed..the coconut milk that i use is not the fresh one but the instant one, so the taste abit weird and not comfortable to eat much of it. besides the outer ring, is not directly attached together..so once i take it out, the hat drops :p hmm..talking bout the taste, still ok..cos the agar-agar wont taste as bad as those failed real mooncake...it is still edible..just that it does not looks so nice :p

Once i wake up the other morning, after coming back from the breakfast with my parents, i start my 2nd attempt for the agar-agar mooncake :p..this time i decided to do it based on my instinct and my experience..RECIPE ..NO :p
see how the things goes then..hmm..the 2nd output looks very nice...the colour, the style, the whole idea, looks so well..however, the outer ring is still not directly attached together..some of the hats dropped..hehee.. but, this time i know why..it just because my 2nd layer is too big and from the mould, there are no space for the 3rd layer to attached to each other nicely..is ok..i will get it fix next time..

I'm not going back hometown this week and i dont have the blender at my penang house, so mooncake, i will make a good one for my next trip back to hometown :p