Mooncakes are often eaten in autumn, with the Mid Autumn Festival occurring on October 4th this year. Every year, my mom will make mooncakes for this festival. We often make more to give to relatives and friends. Everyone enjoys it and it is so nice to eat mooncakes once a year.
My mom buys the lotus or other flavoured filling and makes the skin herself from flour and golden syrup. It is very tedious and very fine work, requiring lots of patience and skill. Which is why I am not able to make them! The moulds have different shapes and patterns. Below are the traditional mooncakes with lotus or pandan filling with or without salted eggs.
Thsi year, my mom also made low sugar yam mooncakes with flaky skin. These are made with real yams. They are nice and crumbly and really not sweet at all so people with diabetes can enjoy them too. They look so dainty and are a slight pink colour which is so pretty.
Often around this time of the year, we start seeing mooncakes being sold everywhere and they are so expensive. So we are very lucky my mom makes nice mooncakes so we can avoid those exorbitant prices and eat to our heart's content. Some friends of mine will remember the mooncakes and around this time of the year they will start to ask when my mom will make mooncakes! 😋 It is such a treat to eat mooncakes and I am really enjoying all the festivities of Mid Autumn Festival!Labels: celebration, desserts
