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Jelly Mooncakes

Jelly mooncakes are far from traditional, but a fun option for Mid-Autumn Festival. You can easily use boxed jello mix as the base of the mooncake but this recipe will let you transform almost any juice or liquid into a jelly mooncake. Find two versions of this recipe, one for blue skies jelly mooncake and one for a 'double salted egg yolk' mooncake.
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Mooncake Molds & Presses

There isn't a huge variety of mooncake molds and presses out there, but enough for it to maybe appear intimidating to newer mooncake makers. This is an introduction to mooncake molds and presses, how to choose one that works best for you, and my growing collection of mooncake tools.
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Mango Sticky Rice

There are three main components to mango sticky rice: ripe mangoes, chewy sticky rice, and a sweet-and-salty coconut sauce. The mango is fanned out across sticky rice flavoured with some of the coconut sauce. The remaining coconut sauce is then thickened with a bit of flour and poured on top of the dessert right before serving.
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Edible Crystals (Kohakutou)

Edible crystals, or kohakutou, is a Japanese candy made from agar agar. Besides looking like real jewels, what makes these crystal candies so special is the texture — they have a crisp exterior shell while the interior of the candies are soft and jelly-like. The candies are a great blank canvas for any flavouring or colours of your choice. Because the base of these gummies is agar agar, these edible crystals are vegan!
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Coco Cake Land’s Bunny Cake + New Book!

I baked, decorated, and photographed this cake on Sunday and I am already talking about it here on Tuesday. I never have this quick of a turnaround time because I get excited to take photograph cakes but writing it...
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Rhubarb Bakewell Tart

I’m breaking my Saturday morning ritual to write this at 9am. The farmers markets opened three weeks ago and my Saturday morning routine for the last three weeks has been precisely: wake up, get an iced coffee (which...
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Grilled Chewy Rice Cake (燒餅)

These rice cakes only have two Chinese characters for its description, 燒餅, and the best translation for it would be 'grilled rice cake.' What the simplicity of the name doesn't tell you unfortunately is what truly makes these grilled rice cakes so special – it uses glutinous rice flour instead of regular rice flour, which produces a mochi-like texture. Grilling or frying these mochi-like cakes give them an extra layer of flavour and texture compared to traditional steamed mochi.
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A Valentine’s Day Cake (with Kelsey and Confetti Floral!)

One day you will wake up, look across the empty room, and not feel like a piece of your heart is missing. One day you your feelings of incompleteness will dampen. The incompleteness will still gently echo dully...
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Hi, I’m Amy.

I grew up eating lots of Asian desserts treats. Sharing mochi, steamed cakes, grass jelly, and many types of dessert soups with my family defined my childhood. Eventually I drifted away from what I deemed at the time “simple desserts” and preferred layered cakes and buttery pastry instead. It wasn’t until recently that I rekindled my love and fascination of Asian desserts and now it’s a really big part of what I make. I will always find a way to sneak matcha into a cookie, stuff cream puffs with boba pearls, and have my take on traditional moon cakes. The most popular recipe on the blog is the Matcha Neapolitan Cookie, and I think it best defines me and my blog — taking the classic combination of strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla Neapolitan and giving it a twist with matcha.

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matcha mooncakes with red bean and salted egg yolk matcha mooncakes with red bean and salted egg yolk shaped like little bok choy, my favourite mooncakes yet.

#bakefromscratch #bombesquad #midautumnfestival #mooncake #mooncakes
little goldfish mooncakes with a red bean centre a little goldfish mooncakes with a red bean centre and sablé cookie crust 🫧

#mooncake #mooncakes #midautumnfestival #bakefromscratch #cookiedecorating
‘double salted egg yolk’ jelly mooncakes! ✨ ‘double salted egg yolk’ jelly mooncakes! ✨

the best part of a traditional mooncake has to be the double salted egg yolks in the centre, so when i created these peach-flavoured jelly mooncakes i knew they had to have a jelly version of the yolks too. the yolks are made by setting a coconut milk-based gelatin mixture in a round ice cube tray and adding it to a cooled peach jelly base after it has set. remember to only add jelly inserts in cooled gelatin mixture or else it will melt the inserts! this is the same method for the blue skies jelly mooncakes a few posts back. i shared the steps for making jelly mooncakes on the blog for those who are interested!

#mooncakes #bakefromscratch #midautumnfestival #bombesquad #f52grams
happiest when with mooncakes 🥮 thanks @cherryb happiest when with mooncakes 🥮

thanks @cherrybombe for having me on an episode of the ‘she’s your cherry pie’ podcast!! i had so much fun talking to @jessiesheehanbakes about my taro salted egg yolk mooncake recipe, mooncake trends over the years, as well as sharing all my tips and tricks for making my perfect mooncake. the episode is now live on spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts🎙️ (it’s my first podcast so please be nice to me!!)

#bombesquad #mooncake #mooncakes #midautumnfestival #midautumn
my salted egg yolk shortbread got a little makeove my salted egg yolk shortbread got a little makeover for mid-autumn festival! i always make these cookies during lunar year as part of my ‘tray of togetherness’ but right now i’m stamping them with my mooncake presses and cutting each cookie out with a round cutter. freezing the cookies before baking ensures the design stays in tact. i like to take them a bit further than normal shortbread because it really brings out the flavour of the salted egg yolk. the cookies are super crisp and buttery, and are one of the many ways i like to use salted egg yolk during mid-autumn season.

#bakefromscratch #cookiedecorating #cookiedecorator #fallbaking #cookierecipe

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