The Madness Is Over.. RIGHT.

I thought that the mooncake-making-craze will be over since today is the exact day of The Mid Autumn Festival. Usually ppl will not buy mooncakes anymore.. Well, not really la, cos we all know that bakeries will slash prices down by giving ridiculous discounts, 30% and if later tonite there are still mooncakes left, they will cut the price down by 40% or even 50%, as I was told.

Oh, Happy Mid Autumn Festival!! :p I forgot to wish all of u.. Hahaha

Well, i can't stop baking just yet. There are still orders for the mooncakes and I was only able to rest TODAY. Tomorrow, I'll be back in the kitchen baking.. AGAIN -_- I have not sold so much of one kind of baked goods before.... It's madness..


This is the snow skin mooncakes I sold. All my mooncakes are individually packed for a more "professional" look.. yea rite :p Actually pack it so cleaner la, not so gross.. And it's given in a nice mooncake box.

This customer may wanna place orders after mooncakes festival, for her husband to take to Indonesia as a business gift. And selina told me mooncakes in Indonesia is dem expensive.

Ok, I think i managed to sell roughly about 80 - 90 mooncakes this time around. An achievement :) Thanx to my mum and selina for helping out.

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This morning was brandy's training. I have missed 2weeks of training. First was becos my fellow trainers were at ipoh for Agility Trials. Think they did very well, so congrats to them! Brandy did fairly well today, she would usually pull & tuck me into the shade as she hates the sun. When it gets too hot, she would be reluctant to do anything, which makes me pretty pissed. But, i cant do anything cos she refuses to comply.. spoilt dog -_-

But it was different today, she did the course many times, although not in sequence and I was all over the place giving her wrong body language :p LOL She can be off leash for a short while, but I don't trust her a 100% percent!! She's like a loose canon.. dunno when it'll explode.. or run away!! Noob dog.

And it's one of her fellow doggie fren's bday today. So their boss (aka owners) baked and brought a cake for her. And i brought mooncakes since it's mooncake festival. So dogs had cakes and humans had mooncakes ahaha.


Happy Bday to Cami! She's with the agility cake.. LOL

And did the doggies enjoyed the cake.. It's a carrot cake, with cream frosting and bacon bits! How yummy!! All doggies were so so so so so attentive after they got a taste of the cake. SO they called it the AGILITY CAKE. Cos many dogs were very obedient and ran the course like pros just to get another bite. hahah

So tonite we had a small thing planned. A fondue party together with some mooncakes and lanterns :p LOL Will post pics of the event next time.

Have a wonderful and pleasant Mid Autumn Festival tonite :) Eat more mooncakes!!!!

Over The Moon

Mooncake festival or Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated by the chinese all over the world on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar (in our normal calendar it is around September), where the moon is seen at its fullest and brightest. The is a legend behind the reason why we celebrate this festival, and there are so many versions to the story.

One of the version which was told by my mum when I was younger, was about a forbidden love between a mortal and a goddess, "Ngau Long" and "Chik Lui". But, in Wikipedia, the names were changed to HouYi and Chang'e.. I don't know how the translation goes but the story is similiar.

So, the story is about Chik Lui who was a goddess and Ngau Long who was a mortal farmer who fell in love with each other, without knowing that she was a goddess from heaven. Soon Ngau Long found out, and the gods were pissed at them as a goddess is forbidden to fall in love with a human. They had a child together, but she had to leave him and their child behind on mid-autumn. Out of pity, the gods allowed them to see each other once a year on mid-autumn. It is said that she represents the moon, he would represent the sun and the child would be the stars. So this is how Mid-Autumn festival comes about. And if u look closely, u can see outline on the moon which looks like a rabbit, which is suppose to be Chik Lui, I think :p Basically whole year round, Ngau Long can see Chik Lui on the moon as a rabbit. So, can only see no touch.. LOL

So, with the forbidden love story aside, mid-autumn festival is celebrated by kids, carrying lited lanterns and walking around the neighbourhood. Mooncakes are sold by many bakeries and chinese restaurants for people to buy. This year is different for my family, bcos they no longer need to buy mooncakes to distribute to my family. My aunt(whom I shall be referring to as D'Master from now on) taught me how to bake mooncakes :) Last year or a few years back, D'Master taught me to make the easier version, the non-bake type of mooncakes, called "Bing Pei" or Snow Skin mooncakes.

D'Master didn't want to teach me the baked mooncakes as they were difficult to be made. But finally, she has deemed me worthy that's why she passed down her knowledge to me :p LOL

So here are some pics on the mooncakes i baked. Family and friends have tried, comments came back good so I am happy :)









Some tips for those who are interested to make some:

-Always make sure that you get a wooden mould like mine shown above, nvr ever get a plastic mould cos with all the knocking you will do just to get the mooncake out, the plastic mould may break.

-The mooncake will tend to stick to the mould in the process of knocking, so make sure u put alot of flour on the mould and also on the dough b4 pressing it into the mould.

-The egg glaze should be only egg yolk, and diluted using abit of water. It is recommended to glaze the mooncake when it is half cooked, if not it will tend to be burn b4 it's even cooked thoroughly.

-Remember to keep the freshly baked mooncakes for an extra two days for the oil of skin to emerge. This will make the skin softer and yummier to eat ;)

Some websites with mooncakes recipes are below:

Mooncake recipe 1

Mooncake recipe 2

Happy Baking :)