Bánh Dẻo (Vietnamese Ping Pei Mooncakes)
Mooncake(Geppei) is a sweet from China that means moon cake that is eaten on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. A true celebration of the tropics, every single bite of these mooncake is filled with the thick paste of D24 durians, specifically chosen for their sweetness and thick creamy pulp. Too add an further connection, 1 of the causes why egg yolks are a well known filling for mooncakes is because they are also round and yellow like the moon. My husband just passed by the personal computer when I was reading about this fairly mousse cake.
On the outside, it really is a thin pastry dough covering and inside is a thick filling, usually lotus seed or red bean paste, and maybe an egg yolk. You are nicely advised to cook the durian flesh by gently heating it by way of in a pan. By contrast, a McDonald’s hot fudge sundae, which weighs the exact same, has only 330 calories. Snowy mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes and vegetarian mooncakes are generally decrease in fat, but each nonetheless contains one to two tablespoons of oil.
In addition to possessing their fillings labeled on the crust, mooncakes have a tendency to also have the Chinese characters for longevity” or harmony” along with the name of the bakery that created them and possibly even a likeness of Lady Chang’e, flowers, plants, or a rabbit, which is also a symbol for the moon in China. Saint Honore Cake Shop was no exception …
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