Autumn Moon Cakes Take Inventive Turns
To four little little ones, sitting down to a snack of macaron moon cakes, the notion of a macaron embedded inside a Chinese moon cake is absolutely nothing but standard in this culturally diverse city. The outer shortbread crust” of the feng li su consists of cake flour (for a fine, almost powdery crumb), a teensy amount of leavening (I’m not positive it is really needed but it works) milk powder for enhanced dairy flavor a mixture of butter and shortening for flavor and a soft, crumbly texture confectioners’ sugar and egg yolks for richness and color.
We spent the day collectively speaking and laughing and mastering much more about each and every other when rolling out the dough wrapping big balls of red bean, lotus seed, and pineapple filling pressing them into carved wooden molds brushing the tops with an eggwash then baking the mooncakes under the watchful eye …
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