Moon cakes

It's the mid autumn festival and moon cake eating season again! I still remembered the part that I enjoyed the most is candle burning...what we did was to gather around in the playground at night, melting red candles in the moon cake tin or on the concrete ground and peeling off the red wax when the candles were all melted...there's nothing much you can do with the remaining wax, it is no doubt a useless and stupid game which was enjoyed most when time was in abundance. Candle burning is forbidden in HK now.. government suddenly realized how dangerous that can be and needed to hire intensive labor to remove the wax from the playground the next day morning...

Traditionally in the mid autumn festival we eat moon cake with lotus seed paste and egg yolks. The cake itself is very filling because we need to use lots of lard to make it tasteful. I particularly like the skin (well.. i like the skin of everything) of the cakes because of the soft texture and sweet flavor.. I used to eat a lot of moon cakes but later on switched to the snowy moon cakes by Tai Pan because of its lighter taste and mochi type of texture..yet I have my principle of not trying out the weird flavor like tiramisu and durian I think it is just awkward to combine random flavors and force into a moon cake mold to make it festive looking.

And this year I made my own! The snowy moon cakes with red bean / green bean paste. The whole moon cake making process is actually quite fun and easy to do. I again resent the cake shops to sell something low cost for high margin.. this set can easily sells for >100HKD!
Another kind of new style moon cake - egg custard filing with crispy skin. This one is quite hard to make it shape nicely because of the uneven distribution of the skin.....
Only 4 ingredients are needed for the skin.