Tag: mooncake

How to make layered Coffee Flan Jelly (recipe)

Jelly mooncakes have been becoming quite a popular Mid-Autumn Festival treat as they are less calorie-dense yet still absolutely delicious, and of course, what kids (or even adults) do not like jelly? I have previously introduced to you How to make Multi-layered Coffee and Coconut Jelly, inspired by a very famous Vietnamese coffee drink called […]

Chrysanthemum Mooncake recipe

Ever since I discovered that I can make my own homemade natural food colourings, I have been very excited to try out using them in many different ways. And because of RnF’s mooncakes series, my kitchen has been filled with a lot of mooncake ingredients that are more than enough for me to conduct some […]

How to make Matcha Mooncakes with Red Bean Filling

Matcha (green tea) is probably one of the most popular health food at the moment. The full-of-life green colour of matcha powder, which is essentially the ground leaves of a special type of green tea, is a tell-tale sign of its many great health benefits. Certainly in Vietnam and many other Asian countries, matcha-flavoured desserts have […]

How to make snowskin mooncakes (cold Singaporean style)

I first tried Singaporean snow-skin mooncakes a few years ago when I happened to travel to Singapore during Mid-Autumn Festival. The ingredients of a Singaporean snow-skin mooncake are relatively similar to those of Vietnamese one: the crust is made of glutinous rice and traditionally white (hence the ‘snow’ in ‘snow-skin’), the filling is usually made […]