Recipe: How To Make Oreo Mooncakes

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is one of the biggest celebrations in Asian culture. It takes place on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the traditional Chinese calendar, which fell on 17 September this year, and is celebrated in a whole host of ways – from moon gazing to lanterns. But one of the festival’s biggest traditions is mooncakes: small, round pastries filled with a sweet or savoury filling. They can be a tricky one to master, but TikTok has created its own version, which requires just two ingredients and no baking: the Oreo mooncake.

What Are Mooncakes?

Mooncakes are the hallmark food of the Mid-Autumn Festival, designed to be shared and enjoyed with a cup of tea. They are small pastries crafted in the shape of a moon, with a golden outer crust enclosing a filling inside. Traditionally they are made using at least one egg yolk as a nod to the full moon, and filled with lotus seed paste, red bean paste or red lotus paste. However, nowadays mooncakes are filled with everything from matcha to fruit to ice cream. 

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The pastries have symbolic importance too, representing wholeness, completeness and family. During the festival, they are traditionally given as gifts as a gesture of gratitude and generosity, often packaged aesthetically in pretty boxes.

What Are Oreo Mooncakes?

Oreo mooncakes are a bit of a cheat code. The recipe essentially reimagines the classic Oreo biscuit: the cookie is blended into a dough consistency, and the inner cream filling is rolled into balls. Then, the dough is mixed with the cream, plus some extra cream cheese, and reshaped into a mooncake using a mould (you can buy these cheaply online). Here’s how to make your own.

@fationatefoodbelly Oreo Mooncake 🥮 2 ingredients No Bake 中秋节 Mid-Autumn Festival is exactly one week from today, meaning it’s not too late to make this super easy mooncake. This is not a traditional recipe, but something fun and easy for the lazy peeps out there. This tastes very much like cookie and cream cake pops. I don’t want it to be too sweet so I’m using the less sweet Oreo. Ingredients: (serving: 15 mooncakes) – 540g Oreo cookies – 130g cream cheese (can also use milk, adjust as needed for ratio) Instructions: – Separate the Oreo cream from the cookies – Roll the cream into one inch or half inch sized balls – In a blender, blend the cookies until it’s fine then slowly add in the cream cheese and continue to blend. It should form a firm dough consistency – Flatten the Oreo dough with hand or rolling pin then add in the cream ball – Using the mooncake mold, press down on each of them to get a mooncake shape – Let it sit in the fridge for 3-4 hours to firm up before enjoying #mooncakes #midautumnfestival #中秋节 #oreo #snackrecipes #easyrecipeideas #easyrecipes ♬ Strangers – Kenya Grace

Recipe: Oreo Mooncakes

Ingredients:

• 250g Oreo cookies
• 70g cream cheese

Equipment:

• Mooncake mould
• Food blender or processor

Method: 

1. Begin by separating the Oreo cream from the cookies.
2. Using your hands, roll the cream into small balls (around one inch or half an inch).
3. Add the cookies to a food blender or processor until the mixture becomes fine, then add the cream cheese and continue to blend until it forms a dough consistency.
4. Use a rolling pin to flatten the Oreo dough.
5. Take a small section of the Oreo dough and add one of the cream balls. Press down on the dough with the mooncake mould to achieve the mooncake shape.
6. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
7. Place the mooncakes in the fridge and allow them to sit for a few hours.
8. Enjoy!