This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 1, 2020, which is tomorrow. So it is just the right time to make mooncakes at home. This is the easiest mooncakes to try at home, the classic Taiwanese mooncakes with red bean paste filling and a salted egg yolk inside, resembling the moon. Taiwanese mooncakes is different from the widely available Cantonese mooncakes which is much more difficult to make at home. Taiwanese mooncakes use the Chinese flaky pastry which I have written about before, but here you can see the actual demonstration of it.
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Overnight Soft Bun Dough (16-hour poolish version) 16小時冷藏液種麵糰
Update April 20, 2012: Australia has won the Asian Pastry Cup 2012 held overnight in Singapore, with Malaysia coming in second and Singapore third. All 3 teams, plus first time entry and fourth place the New Zealand team, are now eligible to compete in Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie (World Pastry Cup) next year in January to be held in Lyon, France, together with Japan, Taiwan and South Korea who are automatic entries from Asia. Congratulations to all teams.