Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) falls on the 15th day of 8th month on the Lunar calendar, which is on 22nd of September this year! So we baked it practically a month early, because once Mooncake festival rolls around, I won't even have time to eat a mooncake, let alone make one, with my exams nearly coming up! *gulp*
It started with booming sales of mooncakes in Box Hill, where everywhere you walked mooncakes will pop up. But my mum saw this mooncake mould which cast all thoughts about buying mooncakes away.
"Why bother buying when we can make our own mooncakes?" She told me. Good question, why not try it out?
And we did. For the whole night, trying out recipes, haha. It was really fun, and we only had one disaster of a dough. The rest were sucesses! We made two types, snowskin and traditional baked.
Green Tea Snowskin Mooncake:
Pandan Baked Mooncake:
They look great don't they? When they first popped out of the mould after whacking it like crazy, it was perfect. Everything a mooncake should be.
The skin was too thick though, so next time we should roll it out more thinly.
The imprint is actually a lotus flower for lotus paste filling, but we made red bean filling instead.
Yummy mooncakes! But for flavours like durian, I would rather buy them because it's hard to get hold of fresh durian...
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