Mid-Autumn Festival (aka moon festival or mooncake festival, 中秋節) is one of the important festivals in Chinese calendar. I’ve grown up from a family that would have store-brought mooncakes every year. Since I moved to Australia, I’ve been pondering over the idea of making my own mooncakes. After many years, I made some traditional and trendy ones finally.
Coconut milk and pandan juice often go well together in making Chinese dessert. Off I went with this idea and made these mini snow skin mooncakes for our church gathering.
The smell, taste and colour of both coconut milk and pandan are very unique, that you hardly find any other things to replace them.
Fresh pandan leaves are not common here. I could source some frozen ones though, and was glad that it was a big hit in our gathering.
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