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happy midautumn festival !! ❤️🎐 an evening spent learning patience and showing up through effort. i tried replicating cantonese style mooncake with a ‘salted egg yolk’ made from butternut squash, wrapped in purple yam and seeds, in a baked pastry dough.

using all purpose flour was actually fine, just need to cut back a bit and also add slightly more oil and golden syrup than the recipe intended. it’s hard work in the kitchen for almost 6 hours after my 9-5, but vegan / eggless mooncakes are rare, if they even exist in dublin. and so i have the task of making them, especially those with dietary requirements!

i may invest in larger, round mooncake moulds so that they can resemble the moon as we all admire her :) now i smell like golden syrup <3