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Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

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Today is the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, which to me, just means I get to eat mooncakes! Iโ€™m going to keep this really short. I just wanted to wish those who are celebrating, a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Hope you get to enjoy some mooncakes and tea with your family and friends.

This year I was determined to make my own mooncakes. After much stress and headache, I finally produced these colorful snowskin mooncakes. Snowskin mooncakes, I believe, get their name from the skin, which is white in its original flavor form. They are soft, a little chewy and really pretty. I like them mainly because you can do many different flavors and colors.

They arenโ€™t actually that hard to make, but it was just hard to figure everything out especially when I couldnโ€™t find all the ingredients and instructions from other blogs were quite vague. Iโ€™ll be doing a detailed recipe post later for those who want to attempt it and hopefully people wonโ€™t make the same mistakes as me.

Iโ€™m also currently trying to make traditional mooncakes. So far, Iโ€™m finding it easier than the snowskin ones. Unfortunately, they wonโ€™t be ready to be consumed tonight because youโ€™re supposed to let them sit 2-3 days. Which I didnโ€™t realize until I finished making my first batch. Oops.

Now that I know how to make them, hopefully I can make them ahead of time next year and give them as gifts. You can read my explanation of the holiday and mooncakes a little more in my old annual posts: here, here and here. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

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    2 comments on โ€œHappy Mid-Autumn Moon Festivalโ€

    1. Happy Moon Festival Day! I didnโ€™t pick up or receive any moon cakes this year. I was told by a relative today (who lives up in the Bay Area) that there were a couple new egg yolk moon cakes available from Taiwan. I love the egg yolks version. Your snowskin cakes turned out so pretty!