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

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. 

1st Bento @ Work ~~~ 自制"爱"心早餐 ~~~

Time flies, 4 months "honeymoon" at home and now back to work (a 5day week  short term job).

How to beat Monday Blues? ~~~~ Made a very simple bento to work. (cheer up myself)

Bought a small packet of "purple" bread from neighbourhood bakery, it's vanilla & chocolate cream spread and it taste nice.

Using one of my favourite bento boxes - Little Twin Stars - Manged to add "little hearts" using of nori on the bread, added a piece of snowskin green tea mooncake made by Diana and some biscuits for tea break.  The snowskin green tea mooncake taste nice, not too sweet.

  

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.