Moon cake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhong Qiu Jie). Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "Zhong Qiu Jie".
A moon cake
is a delicately stuffed round cake that is delicious and nice to look at. The
cake is often given as a gift between family and friends during the festival to
show greetings. A small cake is a carrier of good wishes between family
members, the eagerness to join family reunion of those away from home and
people's praying for happiness. Most moon cakes
consist of a thin, tender pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling, and may
contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in their center as the symbol of the
full moon. Very rarely, moon cakes are also served steamed or fried.
There is another moon cake call snow skin
moon cakes or (ice skin moon cakes), they are a non-baked moon cake, which originated in Hong Kong. The crust of
snow skin moon cake is made of glutinous rice which is frozen. The typical
color of snow skin moon cakes is white and they are served cold, which is how
it gets the name "snow skin". However, moon cakes may have other
colors because of added flavors in their crusts. For example, if chocolate is
added, the color of the crust might be brown.
Snow Skin moon cake |
Emma Cai
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