I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: Lotus seed paste is boring. All the mooncakes my parents ever bought or received when I was a kid had the traditional lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk filling so I grew up totally indifferent to mooncakes. However, mooncakes now come in all sorts of different flavours and fillings that are way more exciting. So for this Mid-Autumn Festival this year, I decided to try out the new Snow Skin Mooncakes from Daan Go Cake Lab, which are gorgeous mochi-wrapped works of art:
Snow Skin Mooncake Set Box — Artwork by Wenting Li
Snow Skin Mooncake Set Box
Snow Skin Mooncake Set (Clockwise from top left: Coconut Salted Egg Yolk, Premium D24 Durian, Matcha Yuzu Pistachio, and Jamocha Nut)
They come frozen and are meant to be defrosted for an hour before eating, but I like to defrost for 30 minutes instead so that they have a firmer texture — like mochi ice cream, but a bit softer and with a fun crunchy middle. After much deliberation, I chose the set with durian (they have a set without it as well) — I got it in hopes that it would change my mind about the fruit, which is really reminiscent of a buttery fart. (To be fair, the last time I actually ate durian fruit was 23 years ago on a family trip to Thailand, so my memory of it might be a little skewed. But it was unpleasant enough that I have not felt the need to eat it again.)
Snow Skin Mooncake — Coconut Salted Egg Yolk
Snow Skin Mooncake — Coconut Salted Egg Yolk (Yolk lava filling, salted egg yolk, milk crunchy)
Snow Skin Mooncake — Premium D24 Durian
Snow Skin Mooncake — Premium D24 Durian (D24 premium durian, durian filling, caramel crunchy)
Snow Skin Mooncake — Matcha Yuzu Pistachio
Snow Skin Mooncake — Matcha Yuzu Pistachio (Yuzu jelly, matcha pastry cream, pistachio croquant)
Snow Skin Mooncake — Jamocha Nut
Snow Skin Mooncake — Jamocha Nut (Almond gianduja, jamocha filling, almond crunchy)
They come frozen and are meant to be defrosted for an hour before eating, but I like to defrost for 30 minutes instead so that they have a firmer texture — like mochi ice cream, but a bit softer and with a fun crunchy middle. After much deliberation, I chose the set with durian (they have a set without it as well) — I got it in hopes that it would change my mind about the fruit, which is really reminiscent of a buttery fart. (To be fair, the last time I actually ate durian fruit was 23 years ago on a family trip to Thailand, so my memory of it might be a little skewed. But it was unpleasant enough that I have not felt the need to eat it again.)
Sadly, my mind has not changed about durian, however, I will say that it is significantly better in this mooncake form than the fruit itself. (Anyone that plays The Sims 4 will know there is a fruit you can grow called the trash fruit. I imagine that it tastes like durian.) The other three flavours are delightfully interesting and tasty, especially the Jamocha Nut, a crowd-pleasing flavour that would be delicious in any form of dessert. Daan Go Cake Lab did an excellent job at combining unique but cohesive flavours and textures for these mooncakes, so I really hope they release these again next year. (Note to self: Leave out the durian. You're just not meant to like it.)
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Daan Go Cake Lab
Times Square Richmond Hill
550 Highway 7, Building C, Unit 70
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3Z4
(905) 707-9098
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