Chinese Mooncakes with Maine Ingredients

Let’s make mooncakes! Mooncakes are traditionally made to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture that typically falls between mid-September and early October. Join instructor Jeff Mao to learn about – and make – Chinese Mooncakes using Maine ingredients from local farms and producers. Learn how to make the dough, mix up a variety of traditional and non-traditional fillings and, most importantly, learn how to use special molds to create these beautifully intricate pastries.

We'll provide all the ingredients, materials and equipment, plus recipe sheets and product lists to take home. This class is held in our Learning Center and taught by Jeff Mao of Knead & Nosh.

About Jeff Mao

Jeff Mao runs Knead and Nosh as a passion project, teaching engaging online cooking and baking classes with a special focus on foods that incorporate doughs in one form or another: breads, pasta, dumplings, and more.

Jeff is an avid home cook and baker who has been consuming food media for decades going back to PBS shows like Yan Can Cook and the Great Chefs to the early days of the Food Network and now the modern Internet media. He recently published his first cookbook, Essential Chinese Hot Pot Cookbook.

*OPTIONAL: $10 fee (payable in cash to the instructor) if you would like your own set of mooncake molds to bring home after the class.

Advance registration is required! Learn more and sign up at www.mainetastingcenter.com/classes