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Desserts & Snacks

21 recipes. Make Chinese sweets and snacks including mooncakes, rice cakes, cookies, sweet soups, chilled desserts, and red bean or sesame treats.

Light-golden baked glutinous rice cake bars with red dates and white sesame, with one bar pulled away to show the soft chewy centerDesserts & SnacksBaked Rice Cake with DatesGlossy homemade black sesame paste in an ivory bowlDesserts & SnacksBlack Sesame Paste (黑芝麻馅)Classic, brown-sugar and matcha bubble teas with black tapioca pearlsDesserts & SnacksBubble Tea Three Ways (Boba Tea, 珍珠奶茶)Chinese almond cookiesDesserts & SnacksChinese Almond Cookies (杏仁酥)Eight treasure sticky rice pudding with dried fruit, nuts, and red bean fillingDesserts & SnacksEight Treasure Rice Pudding (Ba Bao Fan, 八宝饭)Silky ginger milk curd with fresh ginger and three berriesDesserts & SnacksFail-proof ginger milk curd (姜汁撞奶)Golden homemade fortune cookies with a blank paper fortune on a cream plateDesserts & SnacksHomemade fortune cookies (签语饼)Four pale-yellow Hong Kong mango pancake pillows on a white rectangular plate, with one cut open to show whipped cream and ripe mangoDesserts & SnacksMango Pancakes (芒果班戟)A clear bowl of golden mango sago topped with mango cubes and pink grapefruit sacs, with a white spoon lifting translucent mini pearlsDesserts & SnacksMango sago with grapefruit (杨枝甘露)Cantonese lotus-paste mooncakes with salted egg yolkDesserts & SnacksMooncakes, a Classic Recipe (广式月饼)A glossy dark-brown steamed nian gao studded with jujubes and walnuts, with one wedge cut to show its dense chewy interiorDesserts & SnacksNian Gao (Chinese New Year Rice Cake, 年糕)Thin, deeply amber peanut and white-sesame brittle bars made with small roasted peanut pieces and a clear hard-crack sugar shellDesserts & SnacksPeanut & Sesame Brittle (花生芝麻糖)Pear with rock sugar served two ways: a whole steamed Asian pear filled only with goji berries and clear syrup beside peeled pear wedges, red dates and goji berries in clear boiled brothDesserts & SnacksPear with rock sugar – two ways (冰糖雪梨)Bright orange pumpkin-shaped glutinous rice cakes with deep grooves and raisin stems, filled with red bean pasteDesserts & SnacksPumpkin Mochi with Red Bean Paste (红豆南瓜饼)Two bowls of homemade red bean paste show a rustic chunky texture beside a dark, completely smooth versionDesserts & SnacksRed Bean Paste in Two Ways (红豆沙)Creamy red bean milk popsicles with visible adzuki beans rest over crushed ice, including one bitten pop that reveals its bean-filled centreDesserts & SnacksRed Bean Popsicles (红豆冰棍)Deep-golden sesame balls with an even white-sesame crust and a hollow chewy shell around red bean pasteDesserts & SnacksSesame Balls (Jian Dui/煎堆)White, lavender and pale green snow skin mooncakes with crisp floral patterns and one custard-filled cut pieceDesserts & SnacksSnow Skin Mooncakes (冰皮月饼)Sweet lotus root slices filled with translucent sticky rice and glazed with amber syrupDesserts & SnacksSweet lotus root with sticky rice (糯米藕)Velvety purple-red adzuki bean soup with whole bean pieces and a strip of orange peel in a ceramic bowlDesserts & SnacksSweet Red Bean Soup (红豆汤)White black-sesame tang yuan in clear ginger syrup, with one rice ball opened to show a glossy flowing black sesame center and an even chewy wrapperDesserts & SnacksTang Yuan, Chinese glutinous rice balls (汤圆)
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