If true, what makes a mooncake 1000 calories?!
Sep 17, 2017, 2:27 pm
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If true, what makes a mooncake 1000 calories?!
I've been eating a lot of mooncakes this week. While yummy and delicious, I've been wondering how can they be a 1000 calories! Is it the filling, the pastry or the egg? I mean, the pastry is just flour and syrup which shouldn't be too much and the filling is just nuts or some kind of bean paste which shouldn't add much, right?!
While delicious, I might have to ease up. Don't wan't to get my cholesterol or uric acid up!
But mooncakes are yummy.
While delicious, I might have to ease up. Don't wan't to get my cholesterol or uric acid up!
But mooncakes are yummy.
Sep 17, 2017, 2:39 pm
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Seems like this article has many of the answers to your questions.
http://sampan.org/2014/08/obesity-ho...n-a-moon-cake/
http://sampan.org/2014/08/obesity-ho...n-a-moon-cake/
Sep 17, 2017, 7:03 pm
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I've been eating a lot of mooncakes this week. While yummy and delicious, I've been wondering how can they be a 1000 calories! Is it the filling, the pastry or the egg? I mean, the pastry is just flour and syrup which shouldn't be too much and the filling is just nuts or some kind of bean paste which shouldn't add much, right?!
While delicious, I might have to ease up. Don't wan't to get my cholesterol or uric acid up!
But mooncakes are yummy.
While delicious, I might have to ease up. Don't wan't to get my cholesterol or uric acid up!
But mooncakes are yummy.
Sep 17, 2017, 7:35 pm
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Seems like this article has many of the answers to your questions.
http://sampan.org/2014/08/obesity-ho...n-a-moon-cake/
http://sampan.org/2014/08/obesity-ho...n-a-moon-cake/
Lard was a major component of skin and filling. Even the salted duck egg yolk had pork fat during the curing process.
Sep 17, 2017, 7:43 pm
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Sep 18, 2017, 5:23 am
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Traditional ingredients:
Skin: Lard, Flour, Sugar
Filling (bean or Lotus) mash cooked beans or lotus nuts in lard and sugar.
Salted duck egg: Pork fat chunks are added to the salt brine which the duck eggs are soaked in, This pork fat is to stimulate the yolk to get oily.
You do the math.
Skin: Lard, Flour, Sugar
Filling (bean or Lotus) mash cooked beans or lotus nuts in lard and sugar.
Salted duck egg: Pork fat chunks are added to the salt brine which the duck eggs are soaked in, This pork fat is to stimulate the yolk to get oily.
You do the math.
Sep 18, 2017, 7:52 am
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I didn't knows they had that many calories, but I don't like the packaged one.
Zingermans Deli in Ann Arbor has amazing Moon Cakes. I am scared to think of how many calories those have now
Zingermans Deli in Ann Arbor has amazing Moon Cakes. I am scared to think of how many calories those have now
Sep 18, 2017, 7:23 pm
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I have been to Zingermans twice but IIRC there wasn't any moon cakes that we are talking about in this thread there.
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You'll never touch one of the ones being talked about here again after having theirs
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But this is a completely different beast from a Chinese Moon Cake, which is a dense paste wrapped in dense pastry-- sort of like a giant fig newton that is mostly composed of lard. Also delicious.
Sep 19, 2017, 11:16 am
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Are you referring to the Cosmic Cakes (the Zingerman's Moon Pie)? Man, those things are delicious. Fluffy chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream, chocolate coating. I just called them last week and begged them to take them out of retirement.
But this is a completely different beast from a Chinese Moon Cake, which is a dense paste wrapped in dense pastry-- sort of like a giant fig newton that is mostly composed of lard. Also delicious.
But this is a completely different beast from a Chinese Moon Cake, which is a dense paste wrapped in dense pastry-- sort of like a giant fig newton that is mostly composed of lard. Also delicious.
I thought the moon cakes being discussed here where those things with graham crackers and marshmellows inside with a chocolate covering like a little Debbie.
Speaking of Graham Crackers, Zingermans has awesome homemade graham crackers, I hope they still carry those.