Oreo Mooncakes

Please Note: Mooncake sets pre-ordered here will be for pick-up at our Slingerlands location ONLY on Friday, 9/20, between 3pm-6pm. 

This week we are offering a special collection of snowskin mooncakes with flavors and shapes symbolic of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Snowskin mooncakes are made with a rice flour that is steamed, cooled, filled, and molded into intricate designs. Their texture closely resembles the better known mochi desserts. 

The Rabbit is a beloved character in the Chinese folklore surrounding the moon. Stories tell that the White Jade Rabbit resides on the moon with the moon goddess, Chang'e.

The Teapot represents the tea families pour for one another to enjoy with mooncakes during the festival. Tea is thought to balance the sweetness of the mooncake paste. Osmanthus tea comes from the sweet osmanthus flowers that have been harvested for hundreds of years in autumn when they come into full bloom.

The Leaf is a reflection of the changing seasons and amber New York maple syrup is used to sweeten the red bean paste.

All mooncakes are made from scratch with natural food powders for coloring and gluten-free and vegan ingredients. These mooncakes are sold as a set of three (3) and feature one (1) each in the following flavors:

The Rabbit - Lychee Shiro-An (White Bean Paste)
The Teapot - Osmanthus Tea Mung Bean Paste
The Leaf - Maple Red Bean Paste

Contains: Coconut, Sesame (just on rabbit for eyes).

These mooncakes are best enjoyed the day of pickup or can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 day later. Bring mooncakes to room temperature before eating to soften.

Mooncake Background:

月 Moon 餅 Cake (Yuè Bĭng)

Most commonly these are dense sweet pastries (sometimes savory) and made with fillings or designs to represent the full harvest moon (such as a salted egg yolk center) and/or good fortune, long life, and unity. They are most commonly made and eaten for the Mid-Autumn Festival that celebrates the harvest according to the lunar calendar.

Mooncakes are recorded to have first made an appearance over 3,000 years ago. There are poetic notings, historical political moves, folk tales, and legends that surround the treasured mooncakes. Most famously, the Chinese goddess of the moon, Chang’e, achieved her deified status and place on the moon upon drinking an elixir of immortality that her husband earned when he saved the world from burning by shooting down nine of ten suns. In the kinder version of the tale, the mourning husband set out her favorite foods in her memory, a tradition that continues to this day. 

Mooncakes are gifted and shared with family, friends and business acquaintances to symbolize reunion each year on this festival. Families also gather for dinners, admire the moon, light paper lanterns, and of course - eat mooncakes.

Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing different styles and flavors of mooncakes with our community.