Project Mooncakes 2013

Extremely tired but highly satisfying! That is exactly what I felt after a week of mooncake-making. But with 100 mooncakes, big and small, traditional and snowskin, I feel great to end off Project Mooncakes 2013 on a good note. Many thanks to the encouraging comments and positive feedback from my cornerstone investors, they made the late nights put up all worthwhile.

This 2013, I achieved satisfactory results for the traditional mooncakes with a new recipe attempted. This 2013, I tried to customize various editions of mooncakes for different recipients. This 2013, I finally attempted to publicise ‘Miss Bakerholic’ a little more with the creation of my personalised stamp and stickers. And most importantly, this 2013, I found the best spokesperson for Miss Bakerholic!

Denver, my spokesperon for Miss Bakerholic (Photo credits to Ivy)

Honestly, I am more fond of traditional mooncakes. More time-consuming, more laborious no doubt. But with their golden-brown skin shade and chinese character imprints, they are a sheer beauty to stare at. And they are exactly the reason why I fell in love with mooncake-making 5 years ago. Traditional mooncakes go hand in hand with those classic, heavy wooden moulds. Press it well and hit it hard, and a beautiful mooncake is in sight!

My personalised stickers!

Mix-and-match traditional mooncakes

But I also like snowskin mooncakes because I can play around with the colours and flavours of the snowskin dough. Green tea snowskin is a regular feature among my snowskin mooncakes because I am a huge fan of green tea, and so are my extended family members. Every year, I will wrap green tea snowskin mooncake with egg yolk for my Godfather because he enjoys green tea and salted egg yolks a lot. Last year, there were only white and green snowskin. But this year, I was more daring with colours and flavours – there’s white, green, orange and pink skins and 6 different types of pastes! And that’s how I managed to get my colourful 2013 edition snowskin mooncakes.

莲蓉 snowskin mooncake

2013 edition (Photo credits to Ivy)

2013 kids edition (Photo credits to Ivy)

2012 edition (Photo credits to Nina)

Every year that I bake mooncakes, I feel a sense of gratitude to my Mummy, for going to practically every Phoon Huat store and baking shops all over Singapore with me and of course, sponsoring my box of wooden moulds 5 years ago (I was still a poor student then!). Not cheap I must say, my collection easily cost hundreds of dollars considering the number of moulds I currently have. So a big shoutout here: Thank you Mummy!<3 She’s not a big fan of mooncakes, but she never complains whenever I mess up her kitchen with stacks of wooden moulds left to dry on the kitchen top.

And tomorrow, I shall dig out my Hello Kitty lantern, head up to my rooftop, find the moon and happily eat my mooncakes. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!:)