💐💐Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration over Gluten-free Purple Sweet Potatoes Mooncakes💐💐 🌱🥮😋❤️

I love spending my time in meaningful things such as learning and creating new things that help my core being and growth through my life journey. Cliché and 1001 words won’t get anywhere, a doer is a game changer; experiment and create as I go with beautiful waves of life! 😇❤️

On that note, I hope everyone has a beautiful day with many wonderful possibilities in your surroundings! 🏞🤗

This weekend is our celebration of Mid-Autumn Festival so yesterday I made many mini mooncakes to share with family and friends. A little background about this Mid Autumn Festival: in Asia, ancient emperors worshiped the moon in autumn to be thankful for the harvest. People would take a three day break to celebrate for all the abundance from Mother Nature blessed them through out the year. In modern days, we celebrate Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival with lanterns decoration over mooncakes and good food among family and friends. 🥳🎉

Recipe:

Step1: Mooncake skin

1. Add 100g glutinous rice flour, 100g rice flour, 50g tapioca starch, 100g cane sugar, 300ml coconut milk and 2 tbsp of coconut oil together. Mix well and steam until it gets to clay like texture. (Make sure steam vapor won’t drip back into the flour because it will mess with the final texture 😅). In standing mixer, let it kneed for 10 mins. (Or you can wait till it is cool and hand kneed)

2. Wrap this up with plastic and keep refrigerated for at least 5 hours up to 2 days max to get a uniformed harder texture.

Step2: Filling

1. Steam 400g of purple sweet potatoes, peeled, and half of a beet to keep the vibrant color. Let it cool down first.

2. Blend with 100 ml sweetened condensed oat milk, 2 tbsp coconut oil, 150 ml coconut cream, 50g tapioca starch and 120ml water in food processor.

3. Steam the mixture until clay like texture. In standing mixer, let it mix at high speed for 5 mins.

4. Wrap this up with plastic to refrigerate along with snow skin.

I use 50g mooncake mold to create desired patterns. I find 17g for the skin and 33g for the filling works great with this cake mold. ( in reply, pictures collage for demonstration how to prep for molding process).

I got 18 mini mooncakes out of this amount and packaged in these little pink containers for gifting purposes. I will make another batch with 100g mooncakes for table serving over tea later on this evening . 😋👍

As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️

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Prepping for 50g mooncake mold. Take me back to my childhood memories with making these mini mooncakes. 😊🌺

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[ZazenRiver345]

Glad to see you are very festive and ready to enjoy the moon festival🤗. Love the designs for your moon cakes. Yes you can gather a million and 1 cliches but it means nothing if they haven't arisen out of your own being. Experiment and put these cliches to the test😇👍. Enjoy the moon celebration and always wonderful seeing all your creations. 🎉😁

[Hidden in reply to ZazenRiver345]

Thank you Zazen very much for saying that, much appreciated! 🤗🙏

Oh so you pumped it up to a million and one now 😂🤣. Yes, homemade dishes are beautiful when we can proactively create for ourselves and that’s one of the best way to apply in totality. 😁

It’s a beautiful day and joyful to take care our body and mind! Hope you have a wonderful day as well! 😊

[ZazenRiver345 in reply to Hidden]

Yesss, why stop at a thousand. Let's go to a million😂🤣🤣

[ZazenRiver345 in reply to ZazenRiver345]

But a million is a little over the top . That's a lot of cliches to collect😂

[Hidden in reply to ZazenRiver345]

Enjoy your avocado and mashed bananas with hemp seeds for lunch if I’m not mistaken. 😁

[ZazenRiver345 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you, I did enjoy it😊

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

One good thing that has come from the pandemic is that cooking from scratch here is here to stay!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Well said Catgirl, you are absolutely right! This pandemic did make us slow down and rethink many things and being proactive in homecook meals is a wonderful thing coming out of it!😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator]

These look so sweet and delicate - what lovely little cakes

and how lovely it takes you back to childhood memories. What a lovely post Koko and what a kind soul you are😁

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Awe Debs, how lovely the way you put 🤗🙏❤️They are mini ones so cute and vegan quality for me to first time share with everyone. I felt so joyful while preparing them, so many childhood memories with homeland friends I had with many silly and fun things we cherished during this festival! 😇❤️

I hope you get plenty of rest after the trip and feel so rejuvenated to continue your beautiful life journeys with many wonders! 😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Thats great Koko, I am so glad you have had a fun time.

I am back to work tomorrow but will take it a bit easier the weekend 😁

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Oh my you are back to work already 😯 but that’s okay just one day and the weekend is around for you to rest up well. 🤗

Yes I can see enjoying delicious homemade food and dessert over some favorite shows perhaps. 😁

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator in reply to Hidden]

You know me so well 😁

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

😁😁😁

[Byron2020]

😋 what else can I say other than yummy yummy 😋

[Hidden in reply to Byron2020]

Awe thank you Byron2020 for saying that!🤗🙏They are made with love and I love what I make 😁

Hope you have a peaceful evening with lovely meal! 😊

[Nessie87]

What a lovely tradition! You’re very creative. The moo cakes sound delicious too. 😋

[Hidden in reply to Nessie87]

Awe thank you Nessie87 for saying that, much appreciated! 🤗🙏

Vegan food brings out the best in me and I love to be able to apply my creativity in homemade dishes. Such a joy to make these and share with love ones.

I hope your day has been wonderful so far and enjoy your lovely healthy meals always! 😊

[Nessie87 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much! Glorious sunshine today and a very warm autumn day too here in England!

[Hidden in reply to Nessie87]

I am so glad you enjoy the amazing weather over there. I do love autumn as my favorite time of the year as the leaves changing color. 😊❤️

[Hidden]

They look gorgeous!

Today I have had a lovely day out at a place nearby called Barry Island and had a walk and a swim in the sea and played on the arcades there and sat on the beach eating my packed lunch of seafood cocktail rolls which I enjoyed.

This evening I made a fish pie which we both enjoyed and Baby was envious over it and it will make Sonya and Lucy envious when they find out about the fish pie!

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Awe thank you Catgirl1976 very much for saying that, much appreciated! 🤗🙏

You are so lucky to have nature nearby to enjoy and rejuvenate. ❤️ That’s wonderful you got nature walk and swimming is always a plus in my book! That’s the best exercise that can work your whole body and deep breathing in the water is great 😁👍 Do you have some training weights? If you do some exercise under water it can maximize your time in the pool I find.

Your meal sounds very lovely and healthy especially it’s a highlight for Baby 😽😻 Yes Sonya and Lucy are so envious now with Baby that has you as the best mommy in the world! 😁❤️

[HungryHufflepuff]

Thank you for sharing the pictures and the story of the tradition behind these moon cakes. 😊

[Hidden in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Hi HungryHufflepuff, I am glad you enjoy my moon cake pictures and the story behind them. 😁

Hope you have a great start of the day! 😊

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Hidden]

Thank you 😊

[Kainan Guest]

Brilliant designs Koko! Those are lovely! I’m sure you’ll enjoy the Mid Autumn festival with your family and friends.

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Thank you Kainan for saying that about my moon cakes! 🤗🙏

I bet your mom sent you some too but in non vegan version right ? 😁

Hope you have a great Friday dinner! 😋👍

[Kainan Guest in reply to Hidden]

Nope. No mooncakes for me.

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Sorry Kainan. Maybe they do sell over there too the regular ones you might prefer. 😂