Join me on my quest of making homemade treats with less sugar!
Today I’m sharing with you a recipe for Koshian, a smooth red bean paste that is used a lot for making wagashi.The traditional way of making Koshian is quite tedious. The red beans are rinsed, boiled briefly, cooked, mashed, and then deskinned. After that, the bean paste is soaked in water and let settle a... Continue Reading →
Sharing with you today an easy way to make your own natural food coloring powder from fresh vegetables. This purple sweet potato powder has a purple hue and is perfect for various baked goods and desserts. Homemade vegetable powder is free of additives and preservatives so is safe to use as a food coloring. This... Continue Reading →
I’ve been making sweet red bean paste for my homemade mooncakes (read about my blog posts Sweet Red Bean Paste and Sugar-Free Sweet Red Bean Paste for more details) and this is the first time that I flavored it with Chen Pi. Everything is basically the same. I just dumped in some chen pi when... Continue Reading →
I made this white bean paste out of sugar substitute for my mooncake this year. Compared to Japanese white bean paste which is super sweet, this white bean paste is only lightly sweetened. The reduced sugar amount will make the bean paste dry and crumbly so oil is needed to make up for the moisture... Continue Reading →
I usually just use diluted tomato paste or store-bought pizza sauce for my pizza due to laziness (check out my Thin Crust Pizza recipe here). This time I decided to make my own from scratch as I have a surplus of heirloom tomatoes that I grew in my garden. This tomato sauce is great for... Continue Reading →
I’m sharing with you my sugar-free version of Chinese custard filling that I used for my sugar-free custard mooncakes I made this year (recipe to be followed). Here in the recipe, granulated sugar is replaced with a natural sweetener that is a blend of monk fruit and erythritol. The result was pretty good. There was... Continue Reading →
I have been unpacking and rearranging stuffs almost every day due to our recent renovation. Also my daughter has been admitted to a new school this term. I’m pretty exhausted to work on my mooncake experiment. I did make a batch of sugar-free red bean paste though last week. I used xylitol for my Sugar-Free... Continue Reading →
Making homemade filling has been a breeze ever since I purchased my electric pressure cooker. I used to cook the beans and lotus seeds in my rice cooker and prepare sweet potatoes either by roasting or steaming. With those you need to frequently watch for the water level and make sure that there is no... Continue Reading →
This was what I shared on my Facebook Page last year (read about it here) when I made my snow skin mooncakes . I’ve never had a chance (or perhaps I was just too lazy) to blog about it. The main reason for preparing my own filling is that store bought chestnut paste is horribly sweet.... Continue Reading →
This is the sweet potato filling that I used for my crispy sweet potato mooncakes (recipe here). Instead of white table sugar, I sweetened the paste with oligosaccharide syrup. Oligosaccharides are carbohydrates with 2 to 10 monosaccharides (simple sugars like glucose and fructose). Most oligosaccharides are indigestible by the small intestine and therefore will not... Continue Reading →
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