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Pastry and baking recipes and tips for the household chef.

Traditional Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake (月饼)

...Another Mid-Autumn Festival tradition we repeated was eating mooncake. My mother would slice through that decorative mooncake top and divide it into 8 even pieces. I would pick the prettiest slice and bite into the soft pastry crust filled with sweet and dense lotus seed paste, tempered by moist salted egg yolks. For a while, I refused to eat the salted egg yolk and only ate the lotus paste slices, but like my obsession with Korean boybands, this too was a passing phase.

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Braided Easter Egg Bread

Easter Bread Ring

I had a spur of the moment Easter baking session using Allrecipes’ tasty Braided Easter Egg Bread recipe. I am super impressed! The recipe was very easy to follow and it was a pleasure to bite into sweet warm bread straight from the oven. As you can see, I dyed the eggs beforehand to give the bread wreath a bit of color and I love the result!

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