The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the favorite holidays for Vietnamese children with lantern parades and delicious mooncakes. Today, let’s join Cooking Tips to explore 8 super cute animal-shaped mooncake recipes to gift to kids, making the Mid-Autumn night more joyful and warm!
1Mooncake shaped like a pig
To begin this summary, we will look at the mooncake shaped like a pig with a super cute golden-brown skin and adorned with a lovely bow, perfect for placing in a box and gifting to children during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This cake has a gently fragrant flour layer, soft and fluffy, combined with the sweet taste of the traditional baked mooncake syrup. The filling inside each cake will have different flavors and colors made from ingredients such as: black sesame, mung beans, and purple sweet potato.
This will enhance the enjoyment when tasting the dish and prevent the mooncake from becoming boring and bland.
2Mooncake shaped like a fish
Instead of just displaying the traditional mooncakes on a plate, why not try making a few mooncakes shaped like fish to enhance variety and make the kids at home love them?
To create the most beautiful shape for this cake, you should invest in a fish-shaped mooncake mold. Additionally, the fish-shaped mooncake is longer than it is wide, so when wrapping the filling, be sure to spread the filling vertically!
The cake attracts everyone’s attention with the image of a cute fish swimming, and when eaten, the soft and delicious flavor of the crust blends with the creamy, sticky mung bean filling, making it incredibly appealing. It makes everyone want to keep eating.
3Mooncake shaped like a rabbit
The mooncake in the shape of adorable, lively rabbits evokes the image of the Jade Rabbit on the moon, which has somewhat helped to make the atmosphere and the Mid-Autumn feast more complete.
In terms of filling, unlike the animal-shaped mooncakes above, this cake has a mixed filling made from various nuts and jams, making it incredibly flavorful and providing a delightful, attractive experience that won’t make you feel bored while eating.
However, if your children do not like savory-filled buns, you can completely replace them with other sweet fillings such as: lotus seeds, pandan mung bean, red beans, coconut milk,… okay!
4Cute animal-shaped mooncakes
With just a variety of cute animal-shaped cake molds, you can easily make adorable animal-shaped mooncakes!
These mooncakes, although not large, are only the size of regular cookies, but the diversity of shapes adds to their appeal.
The cake has a beautiful shiny brown crust, not too dry, with a sweet and fragrant taste that blends well with the rich, sweet red bean filling, which is also good for health. This will surely be a wonderful choice for you to make for your beloved kids to enjoy during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival!
5Mooncakes shaped like the 12 zodiac animals
This Mid-Autumn Festival, your kids will love the adorable mooncakes shaped like the 12 zodiac animals. The crust of the cake after baking is evenly golden and eye-catching, and biting into it reveals a sweet, rich mung bean filling that is delicious enough to please adults as well.
With this method of making mooncakes inspired by the 12 zodiac animals, you will need to be a bit skillful and patient. Creating the shape for one mooncake is already challenging, and now you have to create 12 different animals. So, make sure you have a free day to complete this batch of mooncakes!
6Cherry Blossom Mooncake
The cherry blossom mooncake is definitely the most impressive treat for little girls during the lantern festival in August! The lovely pink color along with the cute cherry blossom petals will attract children from the very first glance.
The special thing about making cherry blossom mooncakes is that you need to soak the petals for about 15 minutes to reduce their saltiness. After that, you can use them to decorate the outer layer of the mooncake.
With its adorable shape, soft and fragrant outer layer, along with the creamy filling of cheese and salted egg, it is sure to become your child’s favorite treat during the festival.
7Thousand Layer Mooncake
Surprise your kids with the colorful thousand layer mooncake from Japan, featuring an eye-catching appearance, a crispy outer layer, and a delicious green bean filling.
The most challenging part of making this cake is the outer layer. You need to knead the dough with smooth peanut butter and let it rest for about 15 minutes so that when baked, the outer layer will separate into thin layers stacked on top of each other.
To ensure you succeed in making this cake, check out the recipe shared by TasteVN below!
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So we have gone through 7 ways to make cute animal-shaped mooncakes for kids. Hope this article is helpful in bringing your little ones a special Mid-Autumn Festival with lovely, cute mooncakes!
