Today, we’re coming to you with a new mooncake recipe for the Mid-Autumn Festival! This one is a bit non-traditional. We’re making Pecan Pie Mooncakes! This recipe is for all of you out there who think you don’t like mooncakes or who want to try making them for the first time. The flavors are deliciously
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Category Archive: ‘Desserts & Sweet Stuff’
This taro sago (tapioca) dessert soup is a tasty and lightly sweet end to any Chinese meal. It’s also fairly simple to make, with just water and 8 other ingredients. It freezes well too, so you can make a big batch and save some in pint or quart containers for a quick and easy dessert
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These buttery jasmine shortbread cookies are subtly flavored with ground jasmine tea leaves, making them the perfect complement for a hot cup of tea on a cold winter day. Note: We partnered with Frontier Co-op to bring you this Jasmine Shortbread Cookie recipe. As always on The Woks of Life, all opinions are our own. Enjoy! Let
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This is a classic Chinese mooncake recipe with a red bean paste filling. While mooncakes do take time and effort to make, the flavor of homemade mooncakes is so much better than store-bought (and much less expensive!). We make our own mooncakes every year for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Try this recipe once, and it may
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Mango pudding (pronounced, mángguǒ bùdīng in Mandarin, or mong guo bo ding in Cantonese) is a refreshing and lightly sweet dessert. It has just five ingredients, which let the mango flavor shine through. A refreshing treat for the hot summer days to come, we’ve been enjoying it after long afternoons working in the garden! Let’s
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Chinese Fa Gao (fāgāo – 发糕), also known as prosperity cake or fortune cake, is a common sight around Chinese New Year. It’s also served at other holidays, ceremonial events, and weddings. This fa gao recipe will walk you through how to make it. Finally, a Fa Gao Recipe! This is a recipe that I’ve
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As any long-time reader knows, we have a healthy obsession with pumpkin, as evidenced by our wide and varied uses of it every time fall rolls around, from glazed pumpkin scones to pumpkin english muffins. This pumpkin tres leches cake, however, may be the best recipe of them all. Note: This recipe was originally published in October
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This Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake has all the moist, crumbly goodness of a coffee cake, with a sweet layer of soft, jammy apples that reminds me of apple pie. If you have a couple apples that have gone a little past their prime or picked a few more last weekend than you bargained for, I
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