Mid Autumn Festival ~ 中秋节

No homemade mooncake for this Mid-Autumn Festival.  Bought several mooncakes from local & overseas and some were gifts from friends.

My god-daughter was out to school camp, We (Ling, her 3yo son  & I) were down at the park carrying lantern.  Oopss.... a recycle lantern for little J.

These were various mooncakes we had this year :

 Snowskin Durian - Vegetarian

Single Yolk Lotus Paste - Vegetarian

Shangri-la Philippines - Red Bean & Lotus Paste

 Bengawan Solo - Lotus Paste with Melon Seed

 

Tupperware - Single Yolk Lotus Paste

Hilton Singapore - Single Yolk Lotus Paste

My dearest mother knew that I missed the traditional mooncake 公仔饼, she brought it over from Penang. Thank you mummy! :)

Mid Autumn Festival ~ 中秋节

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival.  I didn't manage to join the kids for carrying lanterns down at the park, but I managed to get 2 lanterns for my god-daughter and god-son.

My Melody - Shavonne

Little Bear - Jayden

Apart from making the homemade snowskin mooncakes this year, we had received several mooncakes.

Let me share with you those mooncakes I received over the past weeks.

Homeamde Snowskin from --- Connie



Homeamde Snowskin from --- Diana

Other gifts from --- JL and other friend

Traditional Mooncakes

This evening, I brought home a box of Traditional Mooncakes Egg Yolk White Lotus from Tung Lok Group, this was given by my new boss (one of the nicest boss that I ever worked with). 
The mooncake is nice and the egg yolks are very fresh.  We will share this with our friends on the actual day of Mid-Autumn Festival ~ coming Wednesday (22 Sep).

New Flavours of Mooncakes - 迷你核桃月酥 ~ 迷你杏仁果仁梅松露

It's a great experience to taste both Walnut Moontart with White Lotus Paste "迷你核桃月酥" and Almond Praline Paste with Plum Truffle Snowskin "迷你杏仁果仁梅松露".  Bought these two hot selling flavours from Carlton Hotel Singapore.

The freshly baked Walnut Moontart with White Lotus Paste is a "must try" mooncake - simply delicious.  Same goes with Almond Praline Paste with Plum Truffle Snowskin, it's not just usual snowskin mooncakes with paste. 

2nd "workshop" on Snow Skin Mooncake 冰皮月饼

After the 1st trial of making the snow skin mooncakes, Karen's colleague shared another recipe with her.
We made pandan flavour snowskin mooncakes today, using this new recipe.  The taste and texture were much better, nicer than the 1st trial we made. 

Most of us like this recipe best as the taste were nicer.
We bought some new "character prints" and they turned out great too, some prints were not visible ~ sigh!

 

We even tried in on "egg" & "konnyaku" moulds!   LOL ~ it works!

Click here for more images on flickr.com (some not too visible on its print)

Snow Skin Mooncake 冰皮月饼

Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month and it's the 2nd most  important festival after Chinese Lunar New Year for Chinese people. 

Getting the traditional mooncakes or snow skin mooncakes are rather costly from the various bakeries.

Our good friend, Karen had an idea to hands on the snow skin mooncakes, so we went to Phoon Huat and get the necessary ingredients after browsing through several online recipes.

For the 1st trial, we referred to Amanda's recipe. Thanks Amanda, it's really easy with simple steps.  A friend of mine, Nicole made good mooncakes, she gave a tip to add a small drop of banana essence and it's really tasted good.  Thanks Nicole. 

We had a small workshop at Karen's place, it's fun!  We 'charaben' the traditional mooncakes using our bento tools and filled them with red bean & lotus paste.