6 Unique and Easy Mooncake Recipes You Should Try

Mid-Autumn Festival is not complete without having mooncakes to enjoy. If you are ready to venture out of the traditional Chinese baked mooncakes, you gotta try these unique and delicious mooncake recipes you can easily make at home.

Traditional Chinese baked mooncakes are never our family’s favorite. They are lots of work and I have tried out so many recipes and failed that many times. Over the years I decided to forget about those traditional baked mooncakes. Instead, I have so much fun making these 6 different varieties of mooncakes that you can easily make at home. Some are baked, some are cooked on the stove, some are sweet and there is one that is savory (my favorite of all!). You gotta check them out!!

Here are the three sweet mooncakes that do not require baking:

Easy Pandan Mochi Mooncake with Custard Filling (Snow Skin Mooncake)

Easy pandan mochi mooncake with custard filling is no-bake mooncake made with regular mochi recipe that stays so soft and chewy even after refrigeration. All the tips you need to know.

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Butterfly Pea Flower Agar Agar Mooncake (with Sweet Potatoes filling)

Forget about the difficult to make traditional baked mooncake. This agar agar mooncake recipe is so easy and delicious and made with the natural blue color of butterfly pea flower extract (bunga telang) and filled with sweet potato filling. Absolutely delicious!

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Mung Bean Paste Mooncake (with Dou Sha Filling)

This super easy and fun mooncake is made with mung bean paste as skin and red bean paste (dou sha) as a filling. Another variety of snow skin mooncake that our family enjoys.

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Here are the two sweet baked mooncakes that are so delicious and easy to make. You won’t believe you can actually accomplish this at home. They look more complicated than they actually are:

Teochew Red Bean Spiral Thousand Layer Mooncake

Pastry-style mooncakes are filled with sweetened red bean paste and made with coconut oil instead of lard and colored with natural juice from blue pea flowers. Ultra flaky crust you will absolutely love!

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Shanghai Mooncake (with Red Bean Paste)

Learn how to easily make Shanghai Mooncake that has buttery and crumbly crust filled with sweet red bean paste filling (dou sha). So much easier to make than traditional mooncake.

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I save the best for last 🙂 Well, the best IMHO! I love these savory Suzhou-style mooncakes filled with meat and the pastry crust…oh my gosh! So light and flaky. Even my mom who is not a fan of pastry of any kind, really loves this Suzhou savory mooncake!

The Flakiest Suzhou Pork Mooncake Ever!

You have to try this Suzhou style savory mooncakes stuffed with pork filling enclosed in a flakiest crust to believe how tasty they are! They can be baked in the oven or cooked on the pan.

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DID YOU MAKE ANY OF THIS UNIQUE AND EASY MOONCAKE RECIPE?

I love it when you guys snap a photo and tag to show me what you’ve made 🙂 Simply tag me @WhatToCookToday #WhatToCookToday on Instagram and I’ll be sure to stop by and take a peek for real!