The dough is then spread around the balled filling to completely cover it and pressed into a special mooncake mold. Traditional mooncake molds often include an imprint of the Chinese characters ...

and as long as you have a mooncake mold, the process is basically foolproof. There are only two main components to mooncakes: filling and dough. This recipe is for a sweet mooncake which uses mung ...

2. Use a mooncake mold or DIY it You can buy mooncake molds for around $10 on Amazon - they're great for giving your treats that traditional look with pretty designs. But don't worry if you don't ...

Various mooncake molds on display at Jingu Museum in Tianjin on Sept 16, 2018. [Photo/IC] Nearly 400 mooncake molds are on display at the Jingu Museum in Tianjin municipality, a selection from the ...

Memorial Bakery: This full-service bakery is a one-stop shop for cakes of all shapes and sizes, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, that includes mooncakes. Molds showcasing various designs are ...

The Tengs’ mooncakes have called three continents home ... chef Hong Li finally squeeze them into “knockers”—wooden molds—and beat the molds against the counter to release the cakes ...

He wasn’t weighing the dough mounds before stamping each one into the mold, yet somehow, they all turned out the same shape and size. Speaking Chinese, Long said he’s been making mooncakes for ...

Mooncakes are traditionally shaped in a wooden mold, but they can also be made by hand or formed using cookie cutters or muffin tins. Even with all the different means to an end, chefs have a ...

If there’s a mistake, the mooncakes can break apart, retreat from the mold, or blur the designs, explains Thao Bui, chef-owner of popular Vietnamese pop-up, Ăn Xôi. Below, find 16 New York ...