It’s the moon festival. Time for moon cakes! My dad sent me these this week: Mini Moon Cakes. Thanks, Dad!
Mini Moon Cakes. Yum.
Traditional moon cakes have a sweet bean paste center, with an cakey-egg yolk type thing in the center of the bean mash. I’m not describing it well, and if you’re turned off, well, no surprise. This is one of those things I’ve grown up with that I just love. The husband, upon trying it for the first time, took a bite and said no thanks. So now whenever I get a box (usually a gift from M&D), I get it all to myself.
This particular box of mini moon cakes (the minis don’t have the egg yolk, fine by me as it’s not my favorite part of the treat) was a variety. The traditional bean paste was replaced with various other sweet centers. Without knowing what the chinese words on each individually wrapped cake was, I discovered pineapple, lotus bean, green tea, some type of berry, and a couple of weird nutty ones. As you can see, I’ve sort of gone thorugh the box of 12 cakes a bit quicker than expected. It’s easy to do that when they are so tiny.
Happy Moon Festival to you all.
Hello? How do I sign up for delivery of mooncakes? The kids sampled them this year (and like your husband, kindly said “no thanks” to seconds).
Well, if I have to start competing for moon cake delivery with other family members, it may not be so easy … but really it all started one year when M&D had extra moon cakes given to them as gifts and brought them up to Seattle when they visited. I must have raved about them so much that Dad got the hint and the rest is history.
I don’t believe there is a mailing list 😉 Just start hinting around September and I’m sure you’ll get a package.