Handmade Piggy Mooncakes 制作小猪月饼
I’m sure that many of you talented bloggers are very busy making mooncakes at home, for the Mooncake Festival which is only 10 days away. Today, I’m going to show you how to make piggy mooncakes by hand. It is very easy to shape a cute fat piggy by only using a round 1/8 teaspoon, a skewer, a toothpick and a small plastic sheet. Just remember not to press the piggy too hard when making as you don’t want the piggy to have too many of your fingerprints on its body. You don’t want a slim or out of shape piggy, right?
Now please watch the tutorial below and if you’ve made the piggy at home, I would love to hear from you. Have fun!
I am submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #11: Mid-Autumn Treats (September 2011) hosted by Happy Home Baking
Here is the recipe (makes 5 piggies) **or you can use your leftover baked mooncakes dough
Ingredients:
- 150g Hong Kong flour
- 90g Sugar syrup/golden syrup
- 3g Alkaline water
- 38g Peanut oil
Tools
- a round 1/8 teaspoon, a skewer, a toothpick and a small plastic sheet.
- 10 Black beans for eyes
- Egg wash ~ one egg yolk with 1/2 tsp water, pass through a sift and mix with little egg yellow colouring
- some mooncake glaze
Please check on the step by step pictorial below (preheat oven to 175 deg C)
制作小猪月饼
材料：（可作5个月饼）**也可以用你自己剩下的月饼皮
- 150g 香港面粉
- 90g 糖浆/黄金糖浆
- 3g 碱水
- 38g 花生油
- 全蛋液 （扫面）
- 10粒 黑豆
- 色 = 1个蛋黄+1/2茶匙水，搅匀过滤+1滴黄色素，搅匀
- 月 饼亮油
工具：
- 1个 1/8尺寸的小茶匙
1支牙签
1张朔胶纸袋
做法：
- 把糖浆，碱水，花生油拌合均匀，再倒入面粉里，混合均匀成一个面团，然后盖上保鲜纸，休面40分钟。
- 面团分成5个50g，莲蓉内馅5个70g，剩余面团，用来做猪耳朵，鼻子和尾巴。
- 详细做法和步骤请看下面的图片。（预热烤箱至摄氏175度）
**(26) Return the piggies to the oven and continue to bake for another 10 minutes. Must monitor the piggies in the oven at this moment. Take out the piggies out of the oven immediately when the dough skin starting to crack. **Please keep in mind that all ovens temperature and baking time varies.
(25) 刷蛋液在小猪的身体上。鼻子和眼睛不要刷。放进预热烤箱175度烤5分钟。
(26) 然后将小猪从烤箱取出放凉10分钟，再刷上蛋液包括耳朵和鼻子，眼睛不要刷。然后放进烤箱继续烤约10分钟左右。
这时要盯紧烤箱里的小猪，看到猪仔的身体开始有裂痕就要马上把猪仔拿出。 **烤箱温度和烘烤时间务必根据自家烤箱来定
Leave handmade piggies to cool and store in an airtight container for 3 days for the mooncake skins to soften before consuming.
最后刷上亮油（连眼睛也一起刷）。待凉后等2-3天烤皮回油后，小猪猪就可以见人了！
note: this dough is also for making Traditional Baked Mooncake
Enjoy!
Omg…I'm speechless!!! These little mooncake piggies are SUPER cute! I think everyone want to buy this… so detail and I love their expressions too! Very impressive work. I'll never forget your piggy mooncakes in my life!
Haha..I am smiling all the way thru as I watched the slide of ur piggie makking…sooooo cute. I need to try that…..too cute. I think I will use as decoration rather than eat 😀 Thanks very much for sharing, Ann!
I made my piggies last few days, but my piggies turned out to have batik print skin, look like as if they have skin decease. I wanna ask, is this normal or there’s some where i did it wrongly?
Hi Jane, Can you show me a pic of your piggies? Please like my facebook fanpage and leave your message on my fb. Normally the dough skin will turn back to normal after 3-5 days.
Hi Ann, I hv tried making these cute little pigs..but my problem is the dough tends to be abit soft. When i pull the dough….it will drop slowly as if its melting away kinda of feeling. Should I add more flour, will it become too dry. I followed your receipe exactly except i use corn oil instead of peanut oil. Thanks in advanced. KYM
Hi KYM,Yes, You can a little more flour to it if you find the dough is too soft and must rest at least 40 minutes or more. The longer you rest the dough, it will becomes firmer.
Hello Ann,I tried this last year bt some of my piggies went out of shape after baking. Do you know what went wrong?
Thank you for your generosity in putting up this tutorial! I made these today (but using leftover mooncake pastry) and would love to show you the pix although of course mine are nowhere as pretty as yours – but they're on my FB page. So, not sure how. Thanks again!Daphne
Hi Daphne, I can't see you in GB. You can 'Like' my FB here or add me as friend.
Hi Corinna, you must first let the dough rest well between 20-30 mins. You cannot do the moulding if the dough is too soft. Secondly might due to high temperature in your oven.
哎哎哎
太美了那几只猪
好不舍得吃咧:)
OMG, these piggies are just way too cute!!
You're a very good artist! And thanks for taking the effort to post the tutorial. Very helpful for terrible sculptors like me 🙂
These are sooo cute. Love it!!!
[Screaming] This is so cute! I remember u made them last year. The step-by-step slide show is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
This is soooo cute!! Normally i don't like mooncakes at all..but looking at your little pig is making me change my mind! 🙂 So adorable! LOVE!
They look great,delicious.
Awesome! very cute piggies! You are brilliant Anncoo! 😉
Hi Anncoo… May I know what type of oil you used for Step 27?
Thank you in advance
Hi Angeline, That was mooncake glaze (亮油)。
Hi Ann,
Your recipe calls for Alkaline Water. How do you make that?
I researched and found this:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Alkaline-Water
I don’t have a filtration system. Maybe I can try add baking soda/lemon water. Which you recommend is better or do you make it differently?
Thanks a lot!
Hi Jenny,
Very sorry I really don’t know how to make alkaline water. Is readily available at our local stores here.
How do you do the sugar syrup?
Hi Van, Sorry I don’t make the sugar syrup. Can easily store bought at the ingredient supply shops and is not very expensive too.
Hi Ann, can I use golden syrup instead of sugar syrup?
Regards,
Ting Ting
Yes Ting Ting. Golden syrup can be used. Already mentioned in the recipe.
Hi Ann,
If i want to bake flatter piggies without filling, what adjustment should I make to the recipe, such as the temperature and duration of baking?
Many thanks!
Hi Eliza, I think is better and faster to use a piggy mould. For the baking temp, you can check on my recipe here http://www.anncoojournal.com/2014/08/mooncake-biscuits.html
thank you so much! this is exactly what i was looking for! appreciate it greatly, have a great week ahead 🙂
Hello,
Can I ask if we can use other kind of oil other than peanut oil?
Will the result be the same??
Thank you ! 🙂
Hi Step, Yes you can use any type of cooking you want.
Thank you for the prompt response . U hve a nice day ahead
ooooooooooo they are so cute and adorable. I don't think I can bring myself to eat them 🙂
Thanks Ann! I am going to try making this over the weekend, heehee! Too cute! 🙂
Ancoo, sorry for the earlier message. I was surfing with my iPad and the slide show didn't show up. I can now see your step by step on my lap top. So clever!
Thanks for your reply, Ann. I did add a little more flour but afraid it will become to dry after baked…so I pulled hand brake…heeeheee..So you think it's nothing to do with the corn oil ya !! Luv, KYM
These look almost too good to eat! Like little ornaments or something.
Hi! I just made them today. My son loves it. Thanks!
But just a question, my piglet looks sunburnt with peeling skin after baked. Is it eggwash?
Hi, Yes is the egg wash. Your piiglet will look better after '回油’ in 3-4 days.
wah so cute! i don't think i could bear to eat them haha~
Hi Ann, can I use golden sýrup instead of sugar syrup?
Hi Ting Ting, Yes you can. Is already stated in my recipe above – sugar syrup/golden syrup.
Thank you for this recipe. I made a few batches for family and frens… they all find the pigs so cute. But I think my brushing of the pig is not as nice.. .yours is simply gorgeous and uniformly done. Love yours!
Hi, No worries, leave the piggies for a few days for '回油’, then the piggies will look pretty.中秋节快乐!
Oh Ann,
this is so adorable and cute….hehe, oink! oink!
Oh! I am in love with those little piggy mooncakes. They are simply adorable. Thanks for sharing.
I actually decided not to make any mooncake this year but now i have to say iam going to make these lovely cutie piggy. Thanks for sharing
Are you for real? You never cease to amaze me. My hero. I love these!!
very very cute piggy, the black bean eyes are shining like real eyes and the tail…i love the most is the piggy tail, so cute…haha
Those piggies are really cute! Great job 🙂 happy weekend!
Hi, we love piggy without any filling, is this the recipe?Thank you for sharing.
I rem seeing this last year and I told myself I'm going to make it this year. Visited you a few days ago but couldn't find the tutorial. I'm so glad I visited you again today! I hope to find time to make this as it's quite time consuming as compared to making the regular ones with plastic mould. Will definitely keep you posted if I make them.
Thank you everyone for leaving your compliments, I really appreciate it.
hi anncoo, this is the 2nd yr i used ur recipe for doing traditional moon cake but i realise one issue with my moon cake. First of all i wanna said thanks for the wonderful tutorial. My moon cake doing piggy will tend to sag or out of shape after baked if using hong kong flour but i dun have issue using plain flour. Do you happened to have this issue? But the texture using hong kong flour is softer than plain flour.
Hi Bernice, Thank you for trying my recipe. The dough is too soft to handle and HK flour is more fine than plain flour. Try to rest the dough a little longer before shaping out the piggy.
Hi anncoo, I did rest for about 6hrs plus, should I rest in fridge or outside?
Hi anncoo, thanks because using Hong Kong flour the texture is softer than plain flour.
Hi Bernice, rest the dough for 6 hours, that was quite long and I didn't place the dough inside the fridge. Since you said no problem to use plain flour, then why not use it.
谢谢您无私的分享!除了做烘烤皮外,我还做了冰皮的小猪猪。谢谢,感恩……
http://luxiamei.blogspot.com/2014/08/pink-piggyhedgehog-bunnies-snowskin.html
Hi Ann!
I followed e timing exactly and my first batch's colour looks pretty nice but my 2nd batch's colour looks under cooked even with e exact same timing.
I'm waiting to evaluate e colour tmr after giving it time to 回油。of it still appears undercooked/doesn't taste right, would it be alright to bake it again? Thanks:)
Hi Ann!
just to update you, my mooncake taste great!! Thanks to you!
here's a pic of them for you:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152175165647224&set=a.10150090660947224.258010.567387223&type=1&relevant_count=1
once again, thank you very much for all your great recipes 🙂
I've made quite a few but this is the first time that i've commented in your posts. psps. hehe
Btw, I'm kel 🙂
Since your piggies are already out of the oven, better not to rebake them again. Afraid the over baked will crack the skin. Just leave them for a few days and wait for the skin to '回油’。
alright. thank you very much Ann!without your detailed instructions i would never have been able to sculpt them!
Hi Kel, Not sure whether your dough was not kneaded properly. Anyway please wait for a day or two for the dough skin to 回油。
thanks for your reply!today is the 2nd day already. the colour looks abit light… dun have the slightly burnt, brownish look if you know wad i mean. =isit alright to put it into the oven again? =Xwould it be bad for the glazed dough?sry for the questions >.<
WOW! Good job!!! Your piggies look very cute and really "回油"… 😀
So cute!! 🙂 hehe.
Hello Ann
This year, I used your piggy mooncake recipe and the piggies turned out so cute. Sister's friends can't stop taking photographs of the piggy moonies. The piggies were delicious. I actually was thinking about buying a wooden or plunger mooncake moulds to make mooncakes in future but now I changed my mind to only make piggy shape. Anyway, I still have the pink plastic moulds though they do not give sharp image.
Thank you again for the recipe.
Blessings
Priscilla Poh
Hi Priscilla, I'm very touched that you really take your time to leave your comment here even though Mooncake festival was already over. Good to hear you enjoyed making these piggies that brought smiles to all at home. Me too, when I made these piggies, I would even talk to these little piggies… sounds crazy huh?… hahaaa…
Hi Ann
these looks amazing..between ..may i know what is mooncake glaze??
Mooncake glaze is to make the piggy or the mooncake shiny.
thanks!!
thanks a lot ! Act. b 4 im using I pad w/o mouse ;-[
ha ! just see the best show " new life " piggy !
love the way u made the piggy, and love the steps u put in…thank u
Cutely done! Really creative 🙂
OMG!!! Those piggy are way tooo cute to be eaten!!! You have a great crafty fingers 🙂 Thumb up!
太太太太可爱了~~
你好棒哦^o^
谢谢你无私的与我们分享!!
好..可..爱的猪猪月饼,看了都舍不得吃咧。
The piglets are soooo cute :))
@soh
Soh ~ I'm not sure about the baking time without the filling.
Wow wow, these piglets are too cute, i especially like the tiny tail,so so cute. Thanks for sharing the detail steps, appreciate much.