Well, on the festival day itself too much mooncakes can get you satiated and why not make something else....... Jelly or agar agar mooncake.
I really love this Jelly Mooncakes when Esther of CopyCake Kitchen posted hers! And even the jelly mooncake have filling too; using grass jelly (cincau).
PANDAN JELLY MOONCAKE
Recipe sourced from Esther of Copycake Kitchen
Ingredients
300g water
300g water
400g pandan juice (blend 4-5 pieces of pandan leaves in 400g+ water)
100g coconut milk
Few drops of pandan essence (I didn't add this)
3 pandan leave (tie into a knot)
120g sugar
120g sugar
8g Agar agar
Filling
Honey grass jelly, ready made (cut into small square size; smaller than your mooncake
mould)
Method
In a medium
pot, pour in the water, pandan juice, essence, coconut milk and pandan leaves and bring to simmer
boil.
Add in
sugar, stirring until all the sugar is dissolved. Add in agar agar keep
stirring. Once start to bubbles, turn off heat. Sift the agar agar
mixture.
Pour some
agar agar mixture into jelly mould. Put it in your freezer to set for 1-2 mins.
Add in grass jelly, pour again agar agar mixture until full.
Let it
chill and set in the fridge.
A refreshing dessert and the kids will love it!!!