Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake

Since Mooncake (Mid Autumn) Festival is just around the corner and my mother and I have made some few days ago. I thought why don't I go online to search for mooncake recipes to see what is out there. My first stop is, of course, www.foodnetwork.com, I found nothing and they even asked me was I looking for corncake recipe. LOL. So then I googled mooncake recipes, honestly not many good results out there. The closest match was probably the recipe from Star Online, a Malaysian newspaper. Besides that, a lot of the search results were "where do I find mooncake recipes?" sorta things. And one crazy ones that says 'easy chinese moon cake', for ppl like me who just made some KNOW for sure there is nothing easy about making it! In that recipe, it even called for strawberry jam??!! I was like WTF?

Anywho, I am pretty damn proud that I have participated in the making of mooncakes! The preparation is tedious and you gotta start preparing at least one month before you get to make anything outta lotus seeds, flour, oil, sugar and etc! I can't disclose too much about it here though ;) Just in case you're curious, the recipe is from my maternal grandmother. My mother is the main person making mooncakes and me the sous chef. Hehehe.

I just wanna say, the mooncakes we make taste nothing like what you are getting where you shopped for grocery not even high end restaurants or classy five star hotels can beat us! Well unless you got homemade mooncakes that uses ONLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT lotus seed paste, strictly NO FILLERS!!!! I will have some pictures posted up here soon. So stay tuned ;)