
Assorted artisan MoonCake products by Chinese pastry chefs in Varese: MOONCAKE WITH WALNUTS AND "5 SEEDS", MOONCAKE WITH COCONUT AND BLUEBERRY, MOONCAKE WITH BLACK SESAME Mooncakes (月饼yuebing) are small round desserts with a dense, pasty filling, which have a hard yolk in the center and decorations on the surface: they are the typical desserts of the Mid-Autumn Festival, an important anniversary of the Chinese tradition. The filling of moon cakes can be of various flavours, from the most traditional such as red beans, lotus seed paste and date paste, to the more modern such as chocolate, coffee and even tiramisu. In the center the sweets contain a hard yolk, generally duck egg, which recalls the round shape of the moon. The ideograms of "unity" and "harmony" are usually engraved on their surface or simple decorations are drawn. The cakes are usually enjoyed with tea. It is well known that the