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 →
Last week I posted the recipe for sugar-free mooncakes (read about my blog post, Sugar-Free Crispy Matcha Mooncakes With Sweet Red Bean Paste). This time I'm sharing an almost identical one except that real cane sugar was used. The pastry dough contains slightly less liquid and browns more easily than the sugar-free version. When you... Continue Reading →
Here come my first batch of mooncakes of the year! This year I will mostly be focusing on the production of sugar-free mooncake as I started really late. Low sugar/sugar-free mooncakes are widely available in the market now. It's like every brand has its own line of sugar-free mooncakes so consumers have lots of options... 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 →
I made some matcha mochi in April but it was a disaster! It was the same recipe I had been using all the time (read about my blog post Purple Sweet Potato Moch). However, somehow my newly opened box of mochiko sweet rice flour had a different absorption rate than my previous ones. I ended... Continue Reading →
I made some Purple Sweet Potato Mochi with my leftover sweet rice flour last week and yesterday I used it for some sticky rice roll. From previous experience I notice that treats made with Thai glutinous rice flour are more likely to become hard the next day and have to be softened in the microwave... Continue Reading →
I’ve fallen in love with this style of mooncakes ever since I learned making them. The flaky crust is just so good! Another great thing is that the crust of crispy mooncakes is thicker than that of traditional Cantonese ones. The wrapping process has now become a piece of cake. 自從學懂做脆皮月餅後，EC己被那酥脆的餅皮迷倒。脆皮月餅的餅皮比廣式月餅厚，因此包餡也就沒有什麼難度，做月餅時倍感輕鬆！ Last week I baked... Continue Reading →
I have been making mooncake fillings these couple of days (read about my sugar-free lotus seed paste here and coffee salted caramel white bean paste here). I'm sharing with you today how I made my red bean paste. This is a modified version of the red bean paste I used for my snowskin mooncakes last... Continue Reading →
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