Yay, it's almost time for Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節...my favorite Chinese festival! I love the fact that it's a night festival (I'm an owl for sure) and the extravagance of Chinese lanterns floating like glowing gems thru the velvet night, illuminating the happy faces of children up well past their bedtime. And...glory!...the sight of the Moon Goddess Chang'e 嫦娥 floating high in the sky in all her silvery glory is not to be missed.
And besides all that I love making and baking and eating mooncakes, those wonderful moon shaped cakes stuffed with all manner of decadently delicious fillings. (See the list of our other yummilicious mooncake recipes at the end of this post!) And out of all those decadent mooncakes I think these particular mooncakes might be my favs.
Maybe cuz I dig the fragrant nuttiness of roasted black sesame. Maybe cuz I lust after walnuts. I don't know...maybe I'm just nutty.
I just know that I love eating these deliciously satisfying Black Sesame Walnut Mooncakes 黑芝麻核桃月餅, with its tender golden crust wrapped around an oh so fragrant sesame filling dotted through with delicious bitter sweet bits of walnut. I can eat a whole plate of these in one go! That's right...the whole plate means all five of the mooncakes on the plate you're looking at...gulp, gulp...gone already! Hee hee...
